Why are you an atheist?

[The Industrial Atheist]

There are way too many of those in Hinduism and it sickens me completely. A few of them recently got arrested for sexual assault. They also found secret tunnels in their ashrams (holy encampments) leading to the women's quarters. Good times, these. 

That's fucked up. Were women, like, being held prisoner?

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I think part of it originated from realizing that many of god's rules were impossible to follow. Also that some of them are very unpleasant to attempt to follow. Reason told me that  for god to give me rules that I can't follow, for me to then feel guilty about not following them, well he would be more of a sadistic freak then an all good god.

From there I listened to the audiobook version of "The God Delusion" from my local online library and later Hitchens-The Portable Atheist.

Y'know, I'm not a huge audiobook guy, but I will go for an audiobook everytime with Hitchens because he speaks so eloquently. I listened to "God is not Great" on youtube that way.

Yeah I actually heard that on audiobook too, quite a bit later.