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

[dyresand]

Before I begin, I ask that you please avoid being hostile or anything. I'm a Roman Catholic, but I feel like many people of faith immediately jump to degrading atheists as people, rather than trying to understand their mindset. I'm heavily confused right now, and am asking both Catholic and atheist sites for their mindsets. Obviously, Catholics are going to defend Catholicism, while atheists are going to defend atheism. I ask that you please be civil about it, as this could be life-changing for me.


I've been questioning how to improve in my Roman Catholic faith lately...but this morning I came to the realization that I never really questioned my faith itself. I was lightly raised Catholic and recently took it upon myself to grow closer to God. Now, for probably the first time in my life, I feel like I'm genuinely considering atheism as a possibility.

From what I understand, atheists do not accept the possibility of a supernatural being, and restrict themselves to our "natural" human thinking. Previously I thought that atheists are simply conditioned by society to the point where they are unable to "rationally" believe in a supernatural being...God doesn't allow us universally undeniable proof of his existence as a test of faith. Now, though, I feel like it's impossible to tell whether that mindset is correct, or whether atheists are correct in their focusing on our natural human mindsets. I do feel like I've felt something while praying throughout the past. 

The other night, for example, I was planning on praying for about fifteen minutes, but felt oddly calm and ended up taking about an hour. Now I feel like that could have just been because I was comfortable, and my mind was "making things up" as I was more convinced in my faith.


Atheists, why do you reject the idea of God, and why should I? I know that your answers will include "there's no evidence" and all that, but please try to explain.

Well for starters we don't reject the idea of  god(s). To put it like so the idea of god(s) through out history is enormous. 
So you  have over hundreds and hundreds of gods then you look at the christian god and  its like.. oh this god is nothing special
its just ideas of other gods compiled into one. Because look at it the christian god in the OT is a vile evil being and then in the NT
still a terrible being but forgiving in the non traditional sense. So to cut it all short the idea of god and the bible  is completely hearsay
non of it has any logical proof but  the only thing the bible is good for is literature and not to be taken seriously like any "holy" text(s).
if supposed "holy" text(s) had any proof then we would acknowledge that there is a god without having to question it. So is there a god even 
though there is hundreds and thousands of religions and even more possibly but highly unlikely.