What made you give up on Jesus?

[Drich]

Well.  Are we finally hearing an honest voice?  If so, kudos.  After so many ridiculous lies it's hard to tell whether this is a real question or not.

Give up on Jesus? . . . well, I work in a church.  And all of the contradictions and absurdities that I was hearing and seeing just started to pile up.  So many things about xtianity just make no sense to me, such as the virgin birth,

I like these, allow me to take the 'magic' out of the 'top shelf religious terms' and explain them in simple terms.
Virgin birth. You think this is impossible? What If i were to provide you proof of 50 virgin births since 1990? (just in the US)
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/virgin-birth...oms-study/
A "virgin birth" is a birth with an intact hymen. Can you not see how one may become pregnant with an intact hymen?

the resurrection,

revived

the need for a blood sacrifice,

their is no need for any sacrifice.

original sin

not a biblical precept.
No where in the bible is this 'doctrine' even mentioned.

(particularly since we now can trace DNA and know that there was not an Adam & Eve, and there was no "original couple"),

God created Adam in His Image, and Eve was fashioned from Adam. The genesis account recounts what was going on from a central garden perspective, It does not account for what happened outside the garden (meaning evolution could be possible)
http://atheistforums.org/thread-14190.html

miracles,

the unexplained attributed to God.

religious wars

Is like any other war, what is so hard to understand about war? The evil of men over flow into a population and they seek any justification for their blood lust. sometimes it is attributed to "justice or freedom" and other times it is attributed to god...
how is that complicated?

, the utter capricious viciousness of Yahweh,

examples?

the absurdity of God's adopting of one tiny tribe,

Ah, no. It was one man (abraham) who God turned into a nation of people.

inhabiting a space smaller than Lake Michigan, and then demanding that the word be spread via missionaries.

actually it started with 12 men. why? so when it did envelop the world, it could not be attributed to the work of man. 

The total lack of Yahweh's contact with all of the other people on the planet at that time.

This is a basic failure of a fundamental comprehension of What Christianity is. In the book of Acts the Holy Spirit is poured out onto Gentiles as well as the Jews. Meaning God was open to everyone from the beginning. That is the whole point of Christianity. to put everyone or to give everyone an oppertunity to directly be in communication with God.

 The total lack of proof since then. The total lack of proof now,

what better proof of God is there than God Himself? This is what is offered to each and every one of us.

 

when a Deity could prove to the entire world, with one viral video, that they exist, and eradicate religious conflict and ISIL and all the rest.

but why would he do that? to make your life easier? You do know this life is not supposed to be easy right? you do understand we are meant to face trials like isis. that if he did not spare his only son hardship that we can also expect no quarter?

 I gradually got to the point where the very existence of any Deity just makes no sense to me.

maybe because you never truly understood who God was or what this life was supposed to be all about? Maybe you thought this life was supposed to be about everyone accomplishing the American dream... Well it's not. this life is a testing ground. It is fill with harship and trials along with people put here by satan to push 'fence sitters' two oneside of the conflict or the other. We have been given this life for one end only and that is to choose where or how we wish to spend eternity.

People like you tend to have this idea that this life is supposed to be like eternal life with god is supposed to be like. Which if you chose to seperate yourself from God for eternity I suppose I could understand why you all urgently demand that this life be easy and fun... (because that is all you all can ever hope for.) So when it is not all peaches and cream you turn on God.. Which again is the reason for the hardship in this life to begin with. To make people like you hate or make a choice about God that if you were left in peace would be remain 'lukewarm about/fence sitters'

This way, when God sends you to Hell, you will know (even if you don't like it) why.