Why are you an atheist?

[fr0d0]

I think it's more a lack of intellectual capacity PR

(You know I'm joking right lovva )

[Purple Rabbit]

I think it's more a lack of intellectual capacity PR

You might be right, I sometimes experience excruciating pains in the frontal lobes after having read about genital mutulation on religious grounds. Do you think there's some correlation here?

[DunnoAnymore]

I'm not an atheist...yet. But with the way things have been going, I don't doubt that I will be sooner than later. My mom is a non-practicing Catholic and my dad is an Episcopalian-turned-Atheist. After the age of five (when my mom became non-practicing), I only attended church two or three times in my life. My first real memory of a priest is my next door neighbor who would beat his child (loudly) for playing with me, a child of undesirables. Most recently, my experiences at a bible study have led me to realize that the religious community is a farce, as one cannot even expect to develop friendships in a group of "Christians", who tell you "You can't expect to have a good relationship with us until you have a good relationship with God." Please God, just let these people take their obnoxious holier-than-thou statements somewhere else and let me live in peace

[Purple Rabbit]

I forgot to mention that obnoxious holier-than-thou statements regularly trigger unwanted spinal contractions in me and foam to the mouth. Quite annoying.

[DunnoAnymore]

I forgot to mention that obnoxious holier-than-thou statements regularly trigger unwanted spinal contractions in me and foam to the mouth. Quite annoying.

hahaha

[LonePiper]

You're not alone, Purple Rabbit - communion wafers and sacremental wine give me heartburn. But maybe that's just because I wolf them down too fast

Anyway, why am I an atheist? In my intro post I wrote how I became an atheist, and that certainly answers part of it, but there's more to it than that.
It's been mentioned before, but there are thousands and thousands of religions out there (not to mention the infinite number that haven't been invented yet). None of these religions can be proved as such, so putting faith in one to me is like playing russian roulette with a gun that has a thousand chambers, except the gun is fully loaded but there is a small chance that one of the thousand chambers is empty. I'd rather just put the gun down and not play the game.

[fr0d0]

I forgot to mention that obnoxious holier-than-thou statements regularly trigger unwanted spinal contractions in me and foam to the mouth. Quite annoying.

I can empathise absolutely (also with your other points) and I'm a theist. Therefore you can jointly claim your reasoning to be shared with theists. I'm sure that'll be of great comfort

[Kyuuketsuki]

You're not alone, Purple Rabbit - communion wafers and sacremental wine give me heartburn.

Hey! I like communion wafers ... I really like the way they stick to the roof of my mouth and I spend the next 2 minutes trying to get them down me throat!

Kyu

[chatpilot]

I have not had a communion wafer since I was about 8 years old lol I am forty now so it's safe to say that its been a long time.I too used to love the way they stick to the roof of your mouth I enjoyed making them soggy then swallowing them lol.

[leo-rcc]

If anything those wafers explain to me how Jezus fed all those people on a few loafs of bread and fish, look at the portions served.