I don't believe in God. I mean no offense to any religious people.
When I was young I was told to believe in God and he made everything by my parents. I listened to them and did believe in God. I prayed when I needed help and nothing ever happened. My family never went to church or talked much about the bible. The only thing I knew was that there was a God and I trusted them. My whole life I've heard about evolution and the big bang theory and always knew that to be face mainly because they are scientists. I never put any thought about how science and religion contradicts each other. When I heard my friend say he was an atheist and how religion and science contradicts each other, my thought about everything changed. My whole view on religion changed and I started to doubt religion.
When it was my time to go to high school, I applied to the local public school. I did not get in due to the small about if space in the school and competition. All the other public school were not good so I was forced to go to a catholic school. I was very reluctant about this and did not want to go there. I had not choice. The more I learned about religion the more I realized how it made no sense to me. My teacher never told us any evidence for why God exists. I feel learning more about religion helped my reject religion. I watched many debates on youtube and learned a lot about both sides and finally decided to become an atheist and reject all religion.
Why would an all powerful, all loving, and all knowing God allow so much hate and pain in the world that could easily be left out when he was creating the universe. I ask many people why they believe in God. They say because God gives them hope and they have a personal relationship with him. I don't doubt their honesty then they say they believe in God. I usually ask, If you were born in a different country such as india, would you still believe in your God? Probably not.
You believe in God because your parents tell you. If you lived in India then you would believe in he Hindu Gods. What religion you believe in is determined by where you live. Most of the time people believe in God because they don't know about evolution or misunderstand it. People usually say, they are not monkeys or if we came monkeys then why are there still monkeys. We came from a common ancestor with monkeys. We split from the common ancestor and went different ways.
People say atheists can't be moral without religion or God. Religions people say we have no moral barrier. They usually say, if there is not God then why do we have morals? Morals don't come from God, they come from humans. The bible says
"If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother ... Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city ... And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die."
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13. "First, Thou shalt not lie with a man, as with a woman: it is abomination. Second, If a man lie with a man, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
They found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. ... And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones.... And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses. Numbers 15:32-56
The bible clearly states we should kill people if we disobey our parents, be gay, and work on Sunday. Is that moral? We don't do that today because we know its not moral. If the bible is perfect then why do we say things in the bible is not moral.
From a great deal of evidence supporting evolution to terrible things in the bible I don't see why I should believe in God. If anyone wants to challenge anything I said or bring up a new argument proving the existence of God, I will be more than happy to answer your question. I can be good without religion and the bible. We all can.
No disrespect to others.
