The main reason I'm an atheist

[drfuzzy]

We call the Bible a "filthy book" because it contains nearly-innumerable things that we find morally repugnant.

Among those things are sexism, deity-ordered genocide, racism (though Jesus did a bit to moderate it with parables like the Good Samaritan, and Paul, to his credit, did try to "clean it up" a bit in that regard), homophobia, and blood-sacrifice and/or vicarious atonement. That is the "very short list".

The book is clearly, to an unbiased (disinterested... meaning we read all the holy books of the world with the same eye, including yours) observer, the product of a Bronze/Iron-Age barbaric, Patriarchal, ethnocentric, theocratic culture. We show it the amount of contempt we feel it deserves, especially when some doe-eyed fanatic comes in here telling us it's something we should base our lives upon.

Can't. Too moral.

^This.^  Exactly.  

And why should I care that maybe you have been studying the Generally Accepted Epistles of Ignatius?  Sure, there a lot of writings that our wholly babble doesn't include.  The Council of Nicea didn't just put a bunch of gospels on the altar, and gawd made some of them fall off - that's a myth.  It took well over 75 years (325 to in the 400's) before the Catholic Bible was finalized.  More than that for other versions.  So what if Constantine's bible included the book of Judith?  There are hundreds of books that were lucky enough to NOT get included in the evil canon.
Here's one list . . . too many to mention.  http://wesley.nnu.edu/sermons-essays-boo...iterature/

So 325 years after Jesus' death, a group of witch doctors got together to argue what the story was going to be.  
So what?  The dying and rising god story was at least 2000 years old before Jesus was born. It was just a new version of the old tale - updated under Roman rule.  And Christian churches have been arguing (and often killing each other) over who has the right book and the right attitude and the right practices for 2000 years, and not once has God stepped in and said "you guys, THIS one, now stop killing each other and worship me properly!".  All of the different schisms and sects, all claiming to have god's favor, with not one shred of proof other than baseless assertions. 

That's because it is all a fantasy, created by MEN, in order to control other men.  And I simply don't believe their bullshit.  And I won't, until someone comes up with some hard data and real proof that god exists.