(December 29, 2014 at 9:05 pm)ronedee Wrote: He (my dad) uses his life experience and knowledge to demerit God. And I don't need to explain this here! But it resorts to: "If there is a God, this life (as it is) makes no logical sense to me!" aka: "babies dying in Africa", "Tsunamis killing 200k people", "his mom (my grandma) dying young of cancer"...etc.
That never even entered my consideration on my way to becoming an atheist. I have been a catholic also, though never a devout one. It was more or less the tradition that kept me there and I never gave it much thought when growing up.
What ultimately drove me away for good were the logical fallacies such as, why would god wait 4,5 billion years to make himself known? Or the trinity, which pretty much amounts to god sacrificing himself to the third part of himself. That pretty much did it and I can't imagine going back to any scripted religion, since to the best of my knowledge and the evidence speaking against them, they're flat out man made and wrong.