Heres a question for you jesus freaks.
For the purpose of disproving the existence of any and all gods I shall refer to your particular desert god as 'God.'
God created the Universe. God knows all, sees all. He's omnipotent. He knows the past, present and future all at once.
God created man, however, God knew everything that would happen to man at any given point in man's entire existence. Since God created everything, and, already knew ahead of time what would happen, everything is fated. There is no such thing as free will. But thats just a little tangent. Now that the set up is complete..
If God exists, then why do people suffer so much? Why are children killed, women raped, wars fought? You say because we can't know God's plan. Well then, if God knew all this would happen ahead of time, then why do logical people see this all as some huge cosmic joke?
God knew that Eve would eat the apple...he knew it for all eternity. He knew it before he made her. God knew every murder, rape, robbery and child molestation that would ever occur. Because he MADE it that way. So the question is, why?
So the option you're left with is either your god is weak and doesn't control as much as you think he does, or he's a rather sadistic god who enjoys creating playthings who have no real say in anything that happens.
There you go, there is no god.
PS. Misanthropy rulz