My move towards atheism has been slow but I have carefully thought out each step away I took away. I am one of those former christians that had a bad experience with christian folk. I encountered some really arrogant and rude people who used god every chance they got as the excuse to justify why they mistreated me or did something really mean or rroganrt to someone. But that is not why I left christianity for atheism. I am a natural thinker and question things, So I began to think and question a lot of things in christianity and these are the problems I have with it. If you would like to comment or add your problems in reply that is fine. I am open to all points of view.
1. The bible is suposed to be the word of god and he was to have inspired the various writers to write things down. The tooth fairy inspired me to write this post. Obviously I am being saracstic to make a point that god is fictional just like the tooth fairy and its absrd to say a fictional charcter can inspire some one to write. Seems to me like the writers wrote fiction just like any other author did. Its a fact that the most of the new testament and old testament and new testament were written after those events happened, how do we know that those things really happened. None of use were there and there were no recording devices back them. Christians say that what in the new testament when Jesus spoke were his words? How do we know those were his words without a recording device? Anyone could have written those words. Until jesus himself tells me that that was what he really said and god really did inspire the writers of the bible I will not believe.
2. All christian denominations claim to right and have the correct interpration of the bible. Just who is right, I dont think anyone is. Anyone can interpret the bible anyway they want and give meaning to any passage they want. Over the centuries, the bible was been misused and misquoted to justify slavery and now its being used to jusify hatred by chrisrians toward homosexuality.
3. It is a known fact that christianty took other ancient myths about gods and goddesses and made then their own. They just changed the names of the dieties to god and jesus or even made up names for other pagan myths. So my conclusion is christianty is a myth based on other myths.
I have may other problems with christianity but these are the main ones. I also hold to many of the same views about scientific eveidence that many others here may have as well. Science to me is much more concrete than what some book says
1. The bible is suposed to be the word of god and he was to have inspired the various writers to write things down. The tooth fairy inspired me to write this post. Obviously I am being saracstic to make a point that god is fictional just like the tooth fairy and its absrd to say a fictional charcter can inspire some one to write. Seems to me like the writers wrote fiction just like any other author did. Its a fact that the most of the new testament and old testament and new testament were written after those events happened, how do we know that those things really happened. None of use were there and there were no recording devices back them. Christians say that what in the new testament when Jesus spoke were his words? How do we know those were his words without a recording device? Anyone could have written those words. Until jesus himself tells me that that was what he really said and god really did inspire the writers of the bible I will not believe.
2. All christian denominations claim to right and have the correct interpration of the bible. Just who is right, I dont think anyone is. Anyone can interpret the bible anyway they want and give meaning to any passage they want. Over the centuries, the bible was been misused and misquoted to justify slavery and now its being used to jusify hatred by chrisrians toward homosexuality.
3. It is a known fact that christianty took other ancient myths about gods and goddesses and made then their own. They just changed the names of the dieties to god and jesus or even made up names for other pagan myths. So my conclusion is christianty is a myth based on other myths.
I have may other problems with christianity but these are the main ones. I also hold to many of the same views about scientific eveidence that many others here may have as well. Science to me is much more concrete than what some book says
