So your an Athiest

[Mister Agenda]

Lets hope you dug a little deeper than Santa and the tooth fairy in determining if God exists, Most people believe it carrys a little more weight. As I said, I am looking for what brings one to Athiesm. I do not believe Atheists are doomed, or damned, or going to hell. I do not believe God cares, anymore than a parent would doom their child for hating them. As for evidence for God, there is good and bad in the world. It is a cause of our free will. You can't have good without bad. We all have choices, challenges, hopes and regrets. And none of it would work if we knew Dad was home. You don't have the kegger at home if mom and dad are around. The fact that there is no evidence is how its supposed to seem, THATS THE POINT.

Weight is irrelevant. If you send me $5, you will receive a million billion dollars in the next seven days. That is a very weighty reward for $5. Are you interested in sending me the money due to the incredible promised reward?

I can't hate God any more than I can hate Krampus, for similar reasons, even though the God many people subscribe to is pretty horrible, to me it's a fictional character. There are plenty of concepts of God that aren't morally problematic, if there is one, I hope it's one of those. Like a Creator God who is omnibenevolent but only nearly omnipotent and omniscient doing the best it can in a very big universe. I suspect that your idea of God is similar, since you don't believe God is capable of providing a universe with the good without the bad. Edit: Which would seem to bode ill for any heaven.

The parent analogy seems a poor one, given that we actually do learn most of what we know about choices, challenges, hopes, and regrets from the adults, especially parents, in our lives as small children. Children left to figure these things out on their own without any guidance become feral, and it is considered criminal to deliberately leave a child in that situation. You don't leave a one-year old on an island full of other one-year olds with automated feeding stations and expect them to come out civilized. If you don't even know there is a Mom and Dad and you only have your sibling's word for what their rules are supposed to be (and they don't claim to have ever seen Mom or Dad in the flesh either), Mom and Dad say so might not be a very good reason not to have that kegger.