We need a friendlier God, a friendlier relationship with God.
The Old Testament (OT), comes from the Hebrew Bible, and is the first part of the Christian Bible. A lot of the Hebrew Bible is revolutionary for its time: for instance, 'An eye for an eye' sets a clear limit on what an injured person may claim in compensation, and when God says, 'Vengeance is mine', he is taking the burden of vengeance away from the people.
Human sacrifice was outlawed when God told Abraham not to sacrifice Isaac, you can read it in Genesis, written some 3,000 years ago, where you can also read that Abraham rebelled against worshipping idols. In the OT there are several warnings against worshipping goddesses. All this, and much more, is revolutionary.
But many of our ideas of God are terrifying and very backward looking: Jesus hanging on the cross, bleeding from the wounds of torture, sacrificed, we're told, by his divine father, God. Christians worship all this, little children are shown the idol of the crucified Christ in their churches and taught to worship torture and sacrifice. Torture and sacrifice feature in some interpretations of Islam, the case of Raif Badawi, for example, whose savage sentence included 1,000 lashes, the public whipping started on January 9 2015 and was due to end twenty weeks later; it is very clear that this barbarism is performed as sacrifice to the goddess of fertility which pre-dates Islam, but many priests still believe in the ancient goddesses and are still afraid, though the priests are probably unconscious of their ancient, fearful beliefs.
Aspects of Christianity and Islam are quite ugly and horrible to many sensitive people; atheism appals many believers and seems empty. Personally, I am very lucky that I learnt about God, probably on the radio in a talk by a Rabbi, when I was 3 years old. To me, God was magnificent and friendly. But when my parents had me baptised when I was 4, it made me unhappy seeing Christ on the cross, and I got ill trying to understand the three-gods-in-one and I still can't make any sense of that.
But behind the difficulties I've had with Christianity, the idea of the Magnificent Creator God is still there, still friendly, and that idea still makes me happy. Being educated by George Frankl, my ideas have naturally developed, but it seems to me that we would benefit from a strong and friendly God, children especially.