Why do you not believe in the concept of a God?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I made an earlier post called “Why do you hate God”, and needless to say I was quickly and rightfully corrected as to how I structured the question and the incoherent post that followed. For all that responded I thank you for your positive criticism of it and how I can better word my comments.

Now my intent in all this is that I really want to hear from you all as individuals as to why you do not believe in a God or more accurately the concept of a God. I would like to hear what we as Christians call your “testimony” or story as to why you came to the conclusion that you have.

I know there is a list a mile long as to reasons why people do not believe and that’s great, but I am more interested in hearing from the individual as to why they personally do not. What lead you to become an atheist? Were you a believer before you became an atheist? What happened to cause you to turn away from your faith? What religion or God did you follow before you became an atheist if any at all? When you turned away from God what did your friends and family say or do?

I am interested to hear the impact it had on your life. Was it a positive one or a negative one? Are you still struggling with the outcome of your choice? How does it feel to be free from such ideologies and beliefs?

I know there are multiple questions involved with this, but they all together form the story of your personal choice and I think it to be better framed in this way instead of making multiple threads to get the same answer.

I thank you all for your patience and understanding and please feel free to correct me when necessary, on how I can better understand and communicate more efficiently. Thank you for your time!

Assuming that the concept of god that we are talking about is an all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good being that freely desires to be worshiped one reason that I do not believe in it is because it has a self-contradictory definition. That is, nothing that is all-good would freely desire to be worshiped. A second reason is that an all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good god would prevent evil and since evil is not being prevented such a god cannot exist. (To better understand this second reason you only have to realize that a very loving parent would not subject its innocent child to being raped by a psychopath no matter what the reason might be if the parent had the power to prevent.)

(bold mine)

Why? (The very loving parent analogy fails utterly, by the way)

Boru