I am not Christian, but I read the bible. Old Testament is pretty much one story after another of God's vindictiveness and cruelty (sometimes even genocide for extra fun). Besides no matter how much you bend logic out of shape, you cannot reconcile idea of God being all-powerful, benevolent and things earthquake killing hundreds of children. Either he does not exist or he does sit there dishing out pain and laughing his ass off. Or maybe (considering that history is written by victors) it was who Satan won, took a title of "God" and is in the charge of everything.