Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?

[Brian37]

On another quick note, why do you guys suppose Christianity has grown so complex? I've been sent dozens of videos that have to total to at least 12 hours, and I'm sure there's countless more across the Internet.

One of these is a 2.5 hour video on how magicians prove the existence of demons. Haven't looked too much into it but it seems like all the tricks it showed have explanations over the Internet.

Christianity is so complex because it is a political beast. For a long time it was both a major european state (in the guise of the papal states), and a tool used by other major states to pacify populations and quell discontent among their populaces (one of the main reasons why France and Germany were so willing to allow so many of their men off despite it weakening their military base so much was because most of that military power was used in a way which hurt the central government).

No, not just Christianity, but ALL RELIGIONS past and present. Our species needlessly creates these clubs and fantastic claims because that is easier than the real hard work of actually figuring out what science does.

YES Christianity IS complex, but so is Islam and Jewish and Hindu and Buddhism. Our species makes up these artificial clubs as a way of creating social order to make excuses as to getting at resources. There is no such thing, nor has ever been such a thing, as a perfectly unifying religion. Every umbrella label competes against other labels as to claim morality. Every label has sub sects that don't agree as to whom to follow or how to interpret the umbrella heros or writings.

YES it is complex, and needlessly so. Instead what humans SHOULD consider, is that our morality is in us, in our evolution. It is why we can observe our pets comfort us and or protect us. It is why we know elephants mourn the deaths of family. There is not one nation, friend or foe alike, that does not have hospitals or prisons.