Why do you not believe in the concept of a God?

[popeyespappy]

I was never particularly religious. We did not go to church, so I wasn’t indoctrinated while young. Despite that I assumed god was true because everyone around me had always said so. Then I took a religious history class in college where I learned a lot of things I had never heard before. First and foremost, of which was that your religion like practically every other religion on the planet could trace it is roots back to previous religions.

Your Old Testament has borrowed pieces from earlier Cannan, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian religions. Some of the book of Proverbs was taken practically verbatim from earlier Egyptian proverbs. The flood was borrowed from Mesopotamia as was the story of young Moses and the reed basket. Yahweh himself probably began as a Midianite god complete with a consort before being blended into the Canaanite pantheon and eventually adopted by the Jews. There is evidence that the Jews were polytheistic until at least the 4th century BCE. Some of this evidence can be found in the Old Testament itself.

Once I began to understand these things it wasn’t a big leap to Christianity or any of the modern religions weren’t any more likely true than the cargo cults after World War II were.