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

[Jehanne]

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.

Sorry that I missed this thread!!

I am an ex-Catholic -- baptized, confirmed and sacramentally married in the Catholic Church.  My wife and I have 5 kiddos.

I no longer believe in the existence of God, which is why I am an atheist.  But, it was a slow process.  But, here is why you should leave the Catholic Church:

1)  The Catholic Church has contradicted itself time and time again throughout history, and most recently, with Francis' allowing of "public adulterers" (the Church's term) to receive Holy Communion.  If that so-called "dogma" is reformable/changeable, then so is every other "dogma" within the Catholic Church.  All religions are man-made, which is why they contradict not only each other but themselves.  If a true religion existed that was divinely inspired, such would not happen.

2)  The so-called Catholic miracles, as well as all the other miracle claims, are downright frauds.  Just look at the recent "miracles" of Blessed Mother Theresa; just out and out fraud.

3)  Science does not need God to explain the Universe, its origins and fate, neither does Science need a soul to explain consciousness and/or free will.  The existence of God is superfluous to Science.

4)  God, as a "timeless, changeless, omniopotent, etc.," Being is self-contradictory.  As William Lane Craig likes to say, actual infinities are an absurdity in Nature, however, if God exists, then God must be in possession of some "actual infinities," such as His knowledge (e.g., "knowing the set of all natural numbers").  While Craig is wrong about actual infinities (as he is wrong about many other things), "Can God make a rock so big that he cannot lift it?"

5)  The argument from evil presents a logical problem to the existence of God.  Not only the fact that there is heartless suffering in the World, but the quantity of natural suffering throughout evolutionary time.  Is God a perfectly Good Being who allows so much suffering for the sake of a "higher good" or is God a perfectly Evil Being who allows some good, so that there may be even more suffering?  Or, is God neither?

6)  By Occam's razor, we should not multiply hypotheses beyond necessity, and so, we ought to be content with naturalism.

7)  The Universe seems ordered to naturalism and not the product of any intelligent design.  If fact, the Universe appears to have not been designed.

8)  Darwinian evolution is incompatible with a Creator.  Evolution by natural selection is neither good engineering nor is it good art.

9)  There is no reason to prefer theism over polytheism or over deism.  In fact, existence is more compatible with a multitude of gods than a single God.  Perhaps they are gambling on us? Why not just "suspend judgment" on what amounts to an infinite set of differing and contradictory beliefs?

10)  Extraterrestrial intelligence, which probably exists elsewhere in the Galaxy and Universe, is incompatible with the idea of a Redeemer Savior.  After all, how many Worlds does Jesus need to die on?

11)  Human beings did not descend from two individuals, an Adam & Eve, which explicitly contradicts the Bible, the Council of Trent, Pope Pius XII's Humani generis and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (which also contradicts Francis' Amoris Laetitia.)

I could go on, but I'll stop here.