Your 3 main reasons

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My, 3 reasons

1. Perhaps most obviously and maybe a cop-out, i start with the atrocities undertaken in the name of a deity. This is fairly obvious and needs no reasoning, however i will explain that while this is my main argument against religion it is not necessarily an argument against the religious at large

And you wouldn't say that stalin's regime wasn't atrocious?

I think it is fairly difficult to notice, and needs a great deal of scientifically verifiable evidence to support it for me to believe it.

This is a really lame main point against religion, as I understand it. 2 and 3 weren't up to snuff either

2. My second being an idea springing from the dark ages, so called because of the lack of intelligent thought to come out of that era, provoked not wholly but mainly by the fear of going against the rulings and laws of the church for fear of imprisonment or worse yet an ETERNITY of damnation in a literal "yes its underneath you" hell. And is basically the drag-factor on moral, scientific and social understanding of the world around us.. the tendency for a religious person to disregard evidence of anything that makes their 'god' seem less likely

Anecdote + failure to understand subjectivity as it relates to evidence = ... point?

3. My final point in my "top 3" would have to be the undeserved sense of worth that religion encourages, self worth comes from achievements in life, and I don't mean your first steps or any other meaningless task in the grand scheme of things... A perfect human would use the limit of his intellect and the entirety of the time possible that he has to further the species, solve issues and better the lives of those around him near and far... And while religion teaches this, there is a constant double standard that they must better your life by engaging you in battle (whether metaphorically or literally) and CHANGING it

A person's sense of worth is separated from religion by moderates, it only either lowers or increases on extreme ends. In which case we can safely say that it isn't religion that changes one's worth of self: it is how extremely high or low they value their life in relation to their causes.

The original question was to find out exactly what people hold as their own main reasons... why do you choose not to believe when so many choose to, given the same evidence... but i guess hope of ever finding that out has been lost in argument now? Or by some 'divine intervention' are you guys gonna start talking

We are talking. We are not talking about our '3 main reasons' that we disbelieve in gods because of, but we are still talking.