I love hypotheticals...

Alrighty, now it's been a while since my last post (I've been doing a lot of working lately) but I have been reading different articles and have found that I want to pose a few hypotheticals about religion.

1.  If heaven is eternal bliss, then why don't religious people find some way to have themselves killed to get there sooner?  Honestly, if you could get to a place where there was no stress, everything was super-easy, and you could have everything you ever wanted wouldn't you want that sooner than later?

1a. If you want to get to heaven sooner (without committing suicide) then how do you go about it?  Do you ask a stranger to kill you at some random time that you won't know about?  Because if the stranger does then it was the stranger's decision to kill you (the ball was in his court at that point) and theoretically it wouldn't be your fault.

2.  Why does the god Christian people believe in happen to agree with whatever that person believes?  If so, it seems to me that different Christian people's beliefs would contradict somewhere.  I've had Christian people tell me they believe in God, but they don't think homosexuality is a sin.  It states in the Bible that homosexuality is an abomination unto the Lord.  So, which is it?  If you disagree with God, then that makes no sense.  Or maybe God doesn't exist and we are just forming our own beliefs based on where, when, and how we were raised and the peers and mentors we have and our own biological make-up as human beings.  Oh, but that couldn't make any sense right? :)

3.  Why does God almost always talk to people individually and not as a group?  The pastor says, "God spoke to me last week and I've got news for you."  Well, if so, then why he didn't just get everyone together and tell us the same thing?

4.  Why does God work in mysterious ways?  If he wanted everyone to believe in him, it doesn't make sense to have left a book behind thousands of years ago to be translated and transcribed many times over by ancient peoples and civilizations to get the point across.  If I were God, I'd do worldwide public appearances and leave behind actual evidence.

5.  Why didn't God just create everything perfect from the beginning?  I personally feel that adding the conflict and adding a bad guy just made the narrative a little more juicy if you ask me.