Humans who believe in any god, usually are afraid of him. Many religions underline, that this is correct type of the relation to God.
First of all, different societes have different gods. If a catholic worshipper is convinced, that only humans who follow christian rules (and have enough luck) may win favour after death, what about remaining rest of humankind? Aren't they foredoomed on hellfire? What for? Is this God not so powerful, as they claim, or is he pure cruel? Any answer will ruin fundamentals of the religion. Another problem is with practicing the faith. As far, as god is unknowable, sophisticated and almighty entity, any practice of defective, erroneous and filthy form of a protein is simply meaningless. Third, not least important problem is, many great scientists claim they're non believers, while the mob of believers consists mainly of poor-educated humans. This embarassing corelation is true worldwide, in large and microscopic scale, with only few exceptions related to bad time of the society or individual experience.
But, if god exists, and if he is so omnipotent and great as humans believe, wouldn't he at the same time small-minded, petty and malicious to require expiation, penance and strange activities on the knees.
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