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

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Yeah, maximally great doesn't mean anything. By what metric(s)? Who set up the metrics?

The whole "test of faith" thing is a really cunning trick. One of the most successful cons of all time. Think about what's going on here. It's not just a test of your faith in a general creator, which is of no consequence; it's about a very specific "God" and a load of rules that it has. But many religions say the same thing. So "God" is testing your ability to maintain specific beliefs about it that you happen to be taught as a child, which mostly depend on where you live, despite a total lack of credible evidence that any of it is true. What kind of stupid God would do this? Why should such a God be respected? Why would it punish the people who happen to born into the wrong religion, even though they pass their "test of faith" in what they have been taught? Fuck his stupid ass. I'm certainly not interested, even if it could be shown to be real somehow.

I can also use this trick regarding anything at all. Any made up thing that can't be proved to not exist. It's testing us. But without indoctrinating people into believing in it as children, I won't be able to get anyone to care about it, although the evidence for it is just the same.

It's a dirty trick, to scare people into obedience.