I get why people have faith and do not judge theists for that belief. People have the freedom to choose. For me it's no leap of faith to realise that God is created in the image of flawed and fallible men and not the other way around.
All of my knowledge, logic and instinct tells me that believing in a God is simply wishful thinking, no more or less than children believing in faeries or talking wooden puppets with long noses. Religion developed at a time when virtually nothing was known about the world outside of the local region. The only viable explanations (at that ancient time) for how the universe and life on earth worked, developed out of ignorance (not meant in a derogatory way) through superstition, local observation, power struggles, brutality and war with rudimentary forms of punitive law and order. Populations were controlled by fear because that is the only thing people universally understood and responded to at the time and most definitely survival of the fittest ruled supreme.
Abject misery reigned over the lives of all but the very few at the top of the hierarchy. Slavery, disease, famine, drought, infant mortality, pain and suffering, pestilence, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods etc. were all heaped on each other (with nothing to explain why) and there was no respite or hope for most and not even the richest or the most pious were spared.
Religions developed and evolved - each regeneration claiming to be better than the last failed attempt and each vying for the hearts and minds of the populations. The behaviours and laws of these Abrahamic God's reflect the brutality of life at the time - and provide an historical insight to the personality and beliefs of the people who were at the top of the social and control pyramids.
It's no coincidence that religious leaders wrestled control from other mortals by creating a God who needed to be placed unreachably above these rulers and all other religions (one true almighty God with no peers); with power that comprehensively usurped them (omnipotence and miracles); with a powerful message of fear, pain and eternal death for those who would be disloyal or disobedient (punitive laws and ultimately hell fire); but with a goal of hope and bliss in a paradise for all ones desires that rewards loyal obedient subjects (can't do much about this life, just wait till you are dead); and all from the love of a just and benevolent God (thanks daddy, I promise never to question your authority).
All of which needed to be passed down, recorded and propagated through the generations in texts placed beyond the questioning and challenge of all comers. You guessed it: the divinely created and inspired Torah, Bible and Qur'an.
Then along came education, science and the period of enlightenment. God as a concept is ever more marginalised in both time and space to the point of being irrational and absurd.
The Abrahamic God is by all accounts a product of the time: misogynistic, egotistical, psychopathic, hypocritical, sadistic, vengeful and above all, a lying brute. In other words, all of the mortal traits and behaviours needed to stay in power and control if you were a ruler at that time, but God has to be even more so.
Since God does not exist, I can say that. In my humble opinion of course.
Life is whatever you want to make out of it. Evolution has given us consciousness and with it, the freedom to choose.