What are you mad at God over

Beautiful testimony. TY for sharing.

I come to places like this and I see how people react in forums. Why are you mad at God. If only I could list them all. But this forum post is one reason. You people will praise His name via text online but as sure as we live and breathe you don’t act that way offline.
DC Talk said it best “The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today are Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.”
Im mad at God for allowing the church I grew up in to scare 11 year old me so much with the ideas of Hell that I practically ran down the center aisle to get “saved”. I’m mad that God allows His followers to condemn me and mine simply for living our truths.
I came here wondering if I could maybe find answers. Guess I should give it a few more years.
Yeah. People are mad at God. The omnipresent omnipotent singular reason behind people using Him as a shield instead of living His truth and His word.

It is fine to lament and not always fake a smile/pretend you are fine. However, your madness cannot be turned into anger/hatred towards God. In Psalm 88, David feels total separation and rejection from God, and even says darkness is his closest friend (which is severe). He is in a full state of depression. As you already know, David continues to have faith.

Psalm 88[a]
A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to mahalath leannoth.[b] A maskil[c] of Heman the Ezrahite.
1 Lord, you are the God who saves me;
day and night I cry out to you.
2 May my prayer come before you;
turn your ear to my cry.
3 I am overwhelmed with troubles
and my life draws near to death.
4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit;
I am like one without strength.
5 I am set apart with the dead,
like the slain who lie in the grave,
whom you remember no more,
who are cut off from your care.
6 You have put me in the lowest pit,
in the darkest depths.
7 Your wrath lies heavily on me;
you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.[d]
8 You have taken from me my closest friends
and have made me repulsive to them.
I am confined and cannot escape;
9 my eyes are dim with grief.
I call to you, Lord, every day;
I spread out my hands to you.
10 Do you show your wonders to the dead?
Do their spirits rise up and praise you?
11 Is your love declared in the grave,
your faithfulness in Destruction[e]?
12 Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,
or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?
13 But I cry to you for help, Lord;
in the morning my prayer comes before you.
14 Why, Lord, do you reject me
and hide your face from me?
15 From my youth I have suffered and been close to death;
I have borne your terrors and am in despair.
16 Your wrath has swept over me;
your terrors have destroyed me.
17 All day long they surround me like a flood;
they have completely engulfed me.
18 You have taken from me friend and neighbor—
darkness is my closest friend.

Hi Rayne, welcome to the site! 😎

It sounds like you are mad at Churchianity moreso than being mad at God. I've had my issues with church folks doing dumb stuff. Heck, I've even BEEN a church folk doing dumb stuff! Don't look to us because as humans we have an annoying tendency to disappoint in some utterly stupefying ways. 😑

Instead, seek God for who He is... not what He can do for you, or who you want Him to be, or who the church peeps told you He was .... just seek Him to get to know Him because He's LITERALLY ALL THERE IS.

And in the end, if you do that with no other motive than to truly know Him.... that's where He will meet you. Take some baby steps, you won't regret it! 😉

I'm not mad at Him for anything (though I considered saying "For making mosquitos, bedbugs, fleas, etc", tongue in cheek), but there is an "atheist" at another site I frequent who is furiously angry with Him and likes to take it out on me.