To these people, God clearly exists.
It’s so evident, I mean, just look around! How could you possibly not believe…? Unless… Unless you hate Him and just wanna sin and rebel against him like the Devil! That’s it! You’re working for the Devil and/or you’re possessed and/or you hate God! So you cover it up so people won’t believe in Him, and you’re confusing their minds so they die without salvation and go to hell!
It’s an insane rationalization to make sense of how and why anybody would ever not believe what is so clearly plain as day to them. To entertain the notion that there is legitimacy to non-belief or even disbelief means entertaining the possibility that their dearly held beliefs are incorrect.
So they must concoct an answer that leads to willful disbelief, and reject all claims of non-belief, save for those who haven’t heard of Christ at all. And, because they’re paranoid, the reason cannot be innocent, they must assume malice to feed their delusion and their persecution complex.
-source growing up on the fringes of this insanity
I get it. It’s an understandable desire, that there’s somehow more to this and a point to our suffering. Be careful with the Witnesses though. If you’re grieving lost loved ones, they’ll pick up on it and try to leverage that to swindle you in. I truly believe most religious people mean well, but the Watch Tower Society (the people behind the JW’s) are incredibly predatory and outright teach their followers to leverage people’s grief if they pick up on it.