It's a very common practice to say, "We don't need God." then when bad times come they say, "Where was God?". This makes me ask them, "I thought you don't want God. So why are you calling upon Him now when you don't want Him to make changes in your life?". This leads to the serious problem of atheism. Atheism's hatred for God inevitably reveals a very deep personal hatred. Along the way they became an atheist and chose to no longer believe in God because they thought He owed them something. They often even cite that if God is so good then why's the world in a tragic position then they refuse to call sin as sin. Instead, some atheists want to just call sin as a fantasy word. If sin is just a fantasy word then why do they have a standard for right and wrong to start with?
This is the problem of people who call the Bible a book of fables. They even tell Christian adults that they're getting too old for fairy tales while they hypocritically get entertained by works of fiction. If the Bible is just a fairy tale book then why is it that they put it in their most hated list? True works of fiction can make anyone go furious if it's a reflection of them but the Bible targets man's sinfulness than any work of fiction. You can hate a nonexistent character and be glad that the person doesn't exist in real life but that hatred may exist because that non-existent character may remind you of someone you have a feud with. The atheist's case with their hatred for God is much different. It's all about that they wish God didn't exist.
The truth of the matter is that God's law is their for your protection. The Ten Commandments are not cruel. On the contrary they give us ground to complain if we're victims of sin. They say that the rules are cruel but they start complaining why society is in a mess or why they're victims of crime. Worse, they blame God for the problems that rejecting God's Word causes to society. They have no one but themselves to blame.
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