Fear of Christians

I think Christians are a confused bunch. Shouldn't I have the fear of THE DEVIL in me, not the fear of God? What's that about? I thought I was supposed to love the dude upstairs. Apparently 'love' in this context means slavish worship and mindless obedience.

OH WAIT, he's the one who rains destruction upon entire towns because some of its citizens are sinners, and sets plagues upon the peasantry and infant population of Egypt because of the Pharoah's misdeeds. Almost forgot those are accepted parts of the literal bible. Ok, nevermind about the loving part.

Now that I think about it, The Devil doesn't set about demanding anything of the human race. Sure, he's there to gobble up the sinners, but that's their bad. And yes he tempts them, but you could argue he's testing their faith (as God has been known to do, think Abraham and Isaac), or probing for weaknesses already there. At any rate he is not pitting his authority directly against mankind's, roaring like some preternatural Steve Ballmer at the top of his lungs how humanity MUST obey him or be destroyed. He's always pretty low key about the whole thing, and it's the mortal who succumbs of their own free will (hence it being a sin) rather than capitulating to irresistible might.

Can anyone not read this short piece, or better yet the Holy Bible itself, and not draw some pretty strong parallels between the bullying, elitist, arrogant, privileged MEN on the one side of the chalk line (and the progeny carrying on their ways into present times), and the diverse, individualistic, skeptical, colorful party animals filling the ranks that oppose them? I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to guess which side represents whom, and why this is one of the most damning blows to organized Western monotheology of all. And also black holes.