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

[Excited Penguin]

(Sorry if this comes up as a double post)

In response to the posts about tests of our faith, from my understanding their moreso for our benefit so that we can determine our strengths/weaknesses, growing closer to God as we ask for His help.

As you ask for help that you can never really be sure you actually received. You have to admit, if you were going to create a scheme of BS to get a group of people to follow your teachings/give you money, you'd be hard pressed to come up with a more effective line of bullshit.

Step 1. Scare the shit out of them - "You're going to burn in hell for all of eternity"
Step 2. Offer them a solution - "If you follow my religion, you won't burn in hell, instead you'll receive endless reward."
Step 3. Make sure they're afraid to doubt you - "You will never have any evidence that god exists so you MUST just believe without evidence AND god will know if you doubt and if you doubt, he'll make sure you burn in hell for all of eternity."

You gotta admit its a well designed scheme.

Sounds an awful lot like what this guy was talking about:

 Monroe's motivational sequence. 

• Step One: Get Attention. Get the attention of your audience. ...
  
  
• Step Two: Establish the Need. Convince your audience there's a problem. ...
  
  
• Step Three: Satisfy the Need. Introduce your solution. ...
  
  
• Step Four: Visualize the Future. Describe what the situation will look like if the audience does nothing.