[Lullaby Chainer]

Why I lack belief in God.

1.There are dozens of pre-Christian gods and messiahs that were born on December 25th, of a virgin, who had 12 disciples, performed miracles such as healing the sick and walking on water, crucified and resurrected three days later, and are known, by their inventors and followers, as such things like the Lamb of God and the King of Kings. Jesus is the most recent of a long list of plagiarized gods and holds no credibility. In fact, the entire Christian myth is taken directly from Egyptian myth. For instance, the 10 commandments are from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The founders of Christianity acknowledged this but offered that Satan crafted the Pagan world to discredit Jesus. This explanation is still held by many religious leaders today.

2.Out of the 40 historians or so that lived during or soon after the supposed life of Jesus, none of them document any Jesus figure. It is ludicrous to think that a man who did all of the things ascribed to Jesus in the Bible would go completely undocumented by the many historians of the time. The Bible itself was written decades after the supposed life of Jesus.

3.The Christian justice system is a barbaric, idiotic, and ridiculous bifurcated mess of extreme bias and lop-sided foundations. Christianity takes crimes as despicable as murder, rape, cruelty, genocide, and so forth and deems them forgivable by an act as trivial as accepting Jesus as your savior. What moral foundations are there that back up the forgiveness of horrible deeds by simply accepting something that, demonstratively, does no statistical good at reversing these evil behaviors.

4.Furthermore, on the topic of a deranged justice system, the Bible condemns those who want to believe in God, but can't, with Hell. Many atheists and deists would love to believe the Christian story, and even attempt so regularly, but reason, logic, science, and rationality enslave them from believing in nonsense. The crime of intellectual honesty harms no one, but the Bible sees it worthy of eternal punishment. In fact, if I may ask, what finite sin is deserving of infinite punishment? Any sin that leads others to Hell is not a reasonable example of a sin deserving of Hell because that, in logic, is circular. The conclusion of the argument is assumed in the premise.

5.No Christian has been able to sensibly defend why the means of enlightenment, the story of Jesus, is so poor of a method of conversion that the room for conflict is not only vast, but invited. A test of faith is not an acceptable answer. There is no test of faith worth the infinite damnation of billions.

6.No Christian has been able to sensibly defend why the Bible is completely scientifically wrong as well as logically contradicting. This problem leads millions away from the Christian god, and once again, a test of faith is not an acceptable answer. There is no test of faith worth the infinite damnation of billions.

7.I can't worship a God that supports slavery or the stoning of children.

8.Christianity, and religion in general, is a proven cancer to society. It has been shown that the more secular nations, in general, experience far less rates of violence and are more charitable in that they give more foreign aid to struggling countries. Atheists, being a moderate proportion of the USA population (about 8-16%) are disproportionately less numerous in the prison population (0.21%). Why would the holy works of a perfect being be so ineffective if not hazardous?

Look me in the eye and tell me.. "you deserve Hell."

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