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

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I'm very impressed with the thorough examination you are giving to your beliefs Balaco

Indeed, every religion dismisses every other religion (or denomination of the same religion) for pretty much the same reasons their religion gets dismissed by others. It's called special pleading; they just know they are right, while everyone else just thinks they are right but have been mistaken somehow; while they all use pretty much the same reasoning. They all have genuine experiences and a relationship with God, somehow.

Of course, the first faulty assumption is that any of them are "right". I don't know why God is so insistent on this guessing game. And certainly, if one of them is somehow right, those he allows to be indoctrinated into another religion are so unfairly handicapped that the whole system is a joke. All religions seem utterly convincing when under their spell, and utterly ludicrous from the outside.

The idea of an intelligent creator is reasonable, but the idea that he's some petty voyeur obsessed with what we do with our genitals, and running obscure tests on us to believe that which is not evident, is not. It wouldn't be hard for God to clear all this up, so he must want there to be this confusion. So much confusion that people kill each other over it.