christian looking to understand athiests

[The Inquisition]

The failure of prayer is what initiated my questioning that eventually led to my rejection of the god hypothesis.

I had scoliosis, everyone in my church prayed to Jesus for me to be healed- it didn't happen.
I underwent back surgery to correct it, thanks to medical science, I've had a relatively healthy, normal life despite this disease.

Fast forward a few years, an assistant pastor in our church was diagnosed with cancer, everyone in church prayed fervently for god to heal him -he died of cancer.

I went to his funeral and they played nice little songs as he lay there in front of the entire church that was praying for this NOT to happen.

Here's another story, there was this guy that didn't like Jews, he started WW2 and proceeded to exterminate millions of Jews fervently praying to not be marched into his gas chambers. I think it's safe to say, millions of Yhwh's chosen people were praying for a different outcome, Yhwh had no answer but silence. Why?

The simple answer? Nothing's up there to answer their prayers.