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The traditional belief is that God created us all, gave us free will, then demanded that we use free will to do what he says or face eternal punishment. God is omniscient, omnipotent, and he loves us all.
He loves us all, he created us in his image then decided to punish those of us who strayed from the path he chose for us. If we were created in his image, then we would be similarly infallible. The presence of free will and sin contradict teh "fact" that we were created in God's image. If we are fallible, then God is fallible, and a fallible God is not omnipotent or onmniscient.
With the traditinal notion of God discredited in my mind, Two options are left. Either God created us and let us do as we please wihtout interfering, or God does not exist. At this point I decided that either option is equally logical, and a lack of evidence to support either argument makes the argument itself pointless.
With two equally illogical arguments facing off against each other, I decided that my energy should be devoted to earthly tasks, such as trying to make the world a better place, being accepting and loving toward others, and eradicating my annoying habit of ending sentences with prepositions.
Whether or not God exists is irrelevant, I live my life as I think is best for me and everyone else. So, there you have it, a belief system that relies on nothing but earthly desires, and guides me toward good. Take Christ out of Christianity, and you remove teh reason to kill and die for religion and a way of life.
I've joked with my brother that I've created an addition to the three main schools of thought. In addition to theist, agnostic, and atheist, I put apatheist, a combination of the words apathy and theist, meaning "One who does not care whether or not God exists, and will live their life the same way regardelss of the presence or absence of a supreme being.
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