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

[Asmodee]

Good to see a few pages' worth of posts since my last. I don't have too much time on my hands and only got to skim so I'm planning on responding to some tomorrow. On a quick note, though,


I remember questioning this myself, finding the answer to be that God is sexless, but "Father" and masculine terms are apparently associated with giving, while feminine terms are associated with receiving. Don't know much about the origins of this though.

How did you find the answer that god was sexless?

I'd think that the writings and references to god as HE/HIS/FATHER would indicate that god is man made. 

If god is a creator why is it not SHE/HERS/MOTHER?

Oh, that is an interesting subject.  This appears to be one of those things that everyone just "knows" and doesn't question, but absolutely is not backed in the Bible.  Just the opposite, actually.  The Bible not only refers to God always as male, even the story of creation all but outright says God is male.  He made man "in his own image".  People often take that to mean "mankind", and it does say that in Genesis 1, but if you recall the story of creation from Genesis 2, God only actually "created" Adam, the man.  So when the Bible says that God made man in his own image, it is not talking about mankind, it is talking about a literal man.  Eve was an afterthought, not "created" at all, but formed from a piece of man.

The Bible itself doesn't say anything about God's junk, of course.  But it all but says God is male.  Christians often claim that God is actually genderless, but try using the word "she" when referring to God and see how genderless they think he is then.  Try referring to him as the "goddess", arguing that it's equally as accurate given that God is genderless and see if they aren't insulted by that.  The truth is the Bible is written with God as male.  That is plain as day.  The whole "genderless" claim is just an example of Christians making up answers for things that aren't specifically stated to match what they would like to believe, but deep down they really think of him as male because that is how he is portrayed.  Throughout the entirety of the Bible a woman's worth is measured in goats, as in, how many you can sell her for.  When a woman gives birth she is "unclean" and must leave the camp until she is clean, 7 days if she had a boy, 14 days if she had a girl.  The entire Bible depicts women as being lesser, subservient, property.  I think the subconscious thought, at least among the "women can't be preachers" fundamentalist groups, is that man serves God and his reward is that woman serves man.  There is definitely a pecking order there in the more extreme religions that is highly suggestive that God has no female traits or he'd be man's bitch.