Top Eight reasons I am an Athiest

I am an atheist. I used to be a Christian. In fact, I used to go to a Christian Private School. I spent the first 25 years of my life totally committed to it. What Happened? Here are the top X reasons why I'm no longer a Christian:

#8 People who always told me "God speaks to me". God didn't speak to me. So my choices were God hated me, they were lying, or they were delusional. Also consider the problem with God proving himself, by talking to them, vs. having this _faith_ ... well... the only answer is they are lying or delusional.

#7 The stupid Noah's Ark story. The problem I have is that they hammer this story into your brain from Childhood. I remember in 7th grade I actually acted in a "Noah's Ark Musical" at the school. What they didn't talk about is "Hey, we're celebrating a story where GOD KILLS EVERYBODY BY DROWNING THEM." Except a few people God liked, if you believe the myth, he killed everyone. Lets not go into the impracticality of getting every animal or why on earth do you even need to get all the animals when you created them in the first place, couldn't you just make them again? God killed everyone because he was mad at them, and we tell this story to kids because its "cute". Which brings me to ..

#6 God being a jerk. I've posted on this before. God killed innocent people for no good reason. "How can you question the wisdom of God?". I ask you, How can you not? He killed Egyptian children, He killed Lot's wife just cause she looked back at her town while he was destroying it, He killed his own son to satisfy a condition that he himself made. Although I suppose in that last bit, since Jesus is supposed to be a part of God, its more like suicide. God is a murdering Jerk in the Bible.

#5 The Bible evolved. It changes more freuqently than people like to admit. People want to call it the perfect word "inspired by God" yet its constantly changing to fit whatever political agenda is currently in power. What I can't understand is how people who study the Bible in depth reconcile this with themselves, honestly.

#4 The entire story of Jesus. Lets be frank, a lot of Jesus' teachings are good. Telling people they ought to be nice to each other and not be so quick to judge, hey, I agree with that. I agree with a lot of what Jesus stands for. What I don't agree with is the whole story. God knocks up a virgin to give birth to his son, then later sacrifices his son so that he can forgive the inherent sins of humanity. That about sum it up? Yeah, who demanded the sacrifice? Who defines what a sin is? The thing about Jesus though is you can't help but like the guy. Thats the pitch. People were tired of this God who went around killing people because he didn't like them. Jesus now ... Jesus you can get behind.

#3 Evangalists. Wow, these guys really are slimeballs. The ones of the TV conning gullible people out of money so they can be miraculously cured. The ones who pick out people in an audience and do a few "tricks" and suddenly they walk. I wish these were made up, but I've seen it first hand. I've been the ignorant kid standing there while a preacher man stuck his hand on my forehead and tried to -heal- me. The truth? I actually thought I was healed. The reality? I was deluded. Obviously this is not a representation of all Christians, however, if God really existed, why would he allow people to continue to pervert his message for their own gain?

#2 The Pope. He's even worse. In fact, the Pope is easily one of the most evil men on the planet. From condoning child molestation to propogating dangerous and high handed political views, this Pope and all the Popes before him have done more harm than die hard Catholics are willing to admit. I was not ever a Catholic, I was a prodestant. But they claim that the Pope gets his commands directly from God, the same God that I used to worship. Well, if God really did tell the Papal office to cover up all those priests molesting children and allow them to continue doing it, then I don't want to worship that God anyway.

#1 My own Faith. This was the biggest reasaon I stopped being a Christian. I examined my own faith. Why was I a christian? I was a christian because my parents were christians, their parents were christians, as far back as we can recall. And my Bible told me those who did not worship Christ Jesus would be sent straight to Hell. Then I thought, why is my friend a Hindu? His parents were Hindu, his parents parents were Hindu, back until as far as he could remember. My Bible told me he was going to hell for the exact same reason I was going to heavan, because I followed my ancestors blindly and without question. But what if... what if I were born a Hindu? Should I go to hell just because of that? Well this line of thinking led me down a path of questions that eventually led me to the only logical conclusion: Religion is fantasy and myth.