Does Our Religious Society Have the Mind Set of a 5 Year Old?

By my understanding, God fearing individuals state that when an event in their life happens, either for the good or for the bad, they say that God made that event or situation happen. Also, they state that when the event is over and they are either healing from the wounds it caused or reaping the rewards from the cause and effect of any normal life situation, they say then that God was testing their faith in him to see if they would fall weak and stray from his side due to a lack of faith when the situation gets to be too terrible or stray from his side when the situation is really good saying they don't need God to continue on because life is grand.

If there is such a thing as a "God", he has to be the most cruelest and evil God in this whole entire universe to do that to someone to then expect them to turn around and say that those experiences were there to just make them a stronger person in their FAITH that they have in HIM. Oh!! Better yet, AND they have to LOVE this so called evil God after he has done so many cruel things to them. But it was just to test them so it's alright. All this for what? So he will know that they will always "love" him. Can anyone say VANITY?!

It is my personal belief that religion is getting discredited as we speak. I say this because when you look at the time line of events in which a religious action first began up to now, a time when Science is thriving and answering almost every question we pose - and if it doesn't, give it a few years, you see that lack of education and religion go hand in hand. On the flip side, education and Agnosticism or Atheism goes hand in hand also.

For example, in the day of Christopher Columbus, the people of this Earth seriously and with all of their heart "knew" the Earth was flat. They taught their children if they went too far out into the ocean they would never come back because they would fall off the edge. Bizarre. Later, Science discredited that theory by first sailing completely around that ocean blue - and coming back. Then, via satellites, we Earthlings got to see first hand at how incredible this Earth is - this round Earth.