This makes me think of the story of the Tower of Babel. Remember…?
Yeah, humans were united and God threw gravel in it
I understand your sentiment but do not personally view God as a sadist.
I understand that.
I can obviously only explain my own reason for reaching such conclusion. If I saw two people being extremely angry at each other to the point where it would eventually end with one of them ending up dead, and I had information or the ability without any harm to myself to prevent it from happening, but chose not to do it. I would call such behaviour slightly sadistic and immoral.
Again, I do understand your feelings on this but I’d say that the fact that Man believes worldliness to be a question of truth and that he kills for his own beliefs (about truth, God and everything else), says more about Man’s flaws (his ego and sins) than about any God.
Why would it, when the scriptures that you have been taught by justify it? Lots of verses in the bible refer to non believers as the worse scum on the Earth, If God disagreed with it, why not correct it?
2 Corinthians 6:14
14 - Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Its pretty obvious that there are two sides, the righteousness and lawlessness and one is related to light and the other darkness. Not exactly looking good for non believers.
2 John 1:9-11
9 - Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
10 - If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting,
11 - for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.
So this pretty much lashes out at everyone other than biblical believers. If you read this as the word of God, how is it not logic, that Christians are superior to those of other or no religion? They are so wicked that you shouldn't even greet them.
Proverbs 3:5-7
5 - Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 - In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
7 - Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil.
If you question God and think for yourself you are basically evil. Which is a nice way to unite the teachings of bible with other religions teachings. How do you imagine a hindu or someone of another or no religion look at this, when they are being compared to being evil for doing so?
And the list goes on.... There are lots of examples of how God think that non believers should be treated. As a believer in this, you are fully in your right to handle according to Gods will, because its not difficult to find verses that support it. So saying that it is humans fault, is not really right is it, when God apparently haven't bothered to correct it, so either he is just lazy or he actually means it.
Some religions use the concept of Satan to address the aspects you here ascribe to God. It serves the purpose of distinguishing between what God rules over and what Man’s ego results in. In such terms, your question is rather: why does God allow for Satan? - That is a beautiful theological question that has occupied many, in all cultures, over the history of time.
Satan is evil because God say he is, however Satan doesn't actually kill a lot of people in the bible, to be honest he is hardly mentioned in it.
If you recall the story about Job, God allows Satan to do whatever he wants to Job except that he can't kill him, if I recall correctly. The first issue here, is that God is all knowing, Satan knows this, so what is the point in the first place? God and Satan knows that he will fail.
Now Satan goes to work and does a lot of bad things to Job, including killing his children... These are completely innocent and God is so hyped up on himself, that he doesn't give a flying turd about them. What type of God is that? When its all done, obviously God steps in and make it all good, so Job gets blessed and gets new children and God is happy that he won over Satan, but still, what about the children that was killed? God simply doesn't care, like simply throwing Job some new ones will make up for the lost of the first ones. That to me, tells a lot about how God view human lifes, he doesn't care at all. Yet, Satan is questioning God and is pointed out as the evil one. Despite God being on a killing spree throughout most of the bible.