(October 5, 2014 at 11:40 pm)Retrolord Wrote: Just wanted to see what made other people non religious and a huge% of people answered it was because of the old testament.
That is not what eroded my faith. What eroded my faith was the Problem of Evil. The process accelerated once I learned how to use reason intentionally.
The evils perpetrated by Yahweh in the OT were, on rereading, only confirmation that reason was leading me straight.
It should be noted that the New Testament God is just as malevolent; it's just the rhetoric that has been toned down.
