(May 17, 2016 at 3:51 pm)sk123 Wrote: I am curious what some compelling reasons are for becoming an atheist. What are some reasons that have been the deciding factor?
I wanted to be a Christian because I knew it was expected of me. But I couldn't figure out how to distinguish the bible from Mother Goose. Christianity did not seem to be true.
Nonetheless, I hoped--silly though it seems in retrospect--that, once they deemed that I was ready, the Christians would send someone to explain how to make sense of the bible.
So I was an atheist, but I didn't like it. I wanted to get over it.
But time kept passing, and no Christian came to me with the secret that made Christianity believable. Eventually, I ran out of patience. I had heard of the ontological, cosmological, and teleological arguments, so I went to the city library to look them up.
They were so stupid. I realized that Christians had no good arguments. If they had a single good one, they wouldn't keep these garbage arguments in circulation.
Thus I quit expecting to become a Christian. There was no reason to want to be on the side of the stupid arguments. There was no reason to expect theists to ever field a good argument. There was no reason to try to justify the Hellfire as moral. There was no reason to think an omnipotent god couldn't defeat iron chariots. There was no reason to think a god could be both possible to see but not possible to see. There was no reason to think three gods is one and one god are three.
I became content in my atheism.