I'm personally athiest. ALot of people say you just inherit religion frm your parents. Not me. I was raised Christian, even went to a Christian elementary school. I was always one of those kids who'd respond to anything you told me with, "Why?" This is how it all began...

I want through the firs several years of my life believing without question. Then I became obsessed with learning how and why everything happened. I was kicked out of a Christian Academy in 1st grade, for constantly questioning the bible, weighing it against fact. Apparently they didn't like that, because not only did they never answer my questions, but they kicked me out. After this I was left questioning, why? Did God just not tell them the answers to my questions? Did the answer not exist? I couldn't believe that was it, or they could've just said they didn't know. Then it hit me, they didn't like the fact that my questions made other kids ask questions. This is when I was certain the answers to my questions did not exist. At least not answers involving a God. this is when I first looked toscience for real answers.

Unlike the religion to which I once held on to, science actually had answers for everything. And for those that weren't answered completely, they said so, and continued looking for the answer, rather than just accepting everything without question.

As I continued to develop, I only came up with more and more questions that made religion seem like nothing more than a tory full of plotholes. Like...
  • If God was a benevelont being that loves all his children, why did he only bother to appear to less than a third of them to make his existance know, thus damning the rest of the planet to eternal hellfire?
  • God, being omniscient would obviously know that only teaching half of the world of his existance would leave the rest to come up with their own dieties to believe in, which would inevitably cause conflict. He lvoes us so much, he let us all murder each other because he didn't feel like talking to the rest of the world? God sounds like an ass if you ask me.
  • Why is it that miracles stopped happening the very instant the camera was invented?
  • Why were people supposedly "appointed by god" basically con artists ripping people off in the middle ages? Y'know, that Holy guy with the big hat, he was selling tickets to heaven when the church was running low on cash.
  • If the world was created in 7 days, and man existed on the 7th, why is it science has proven that dinosaurs existed millions of years before the first man?
  • Why has religion persecuted so many scientists who dared to question "why", only to later agree with them? Like the whole Geocentric vs. Heliocentric thing, (though both turned out to be wrong) or the world being flat. At one point in time, you were a heretic if you suggested that the earth orbitted the sun and that the world was round. Now you're a dumbass if you suggest anything else.
While religion came up with some ridiculous story to cover up for any inconsistancy a person could find, science actually goes and answers questions when raised. By this point in my life, I was completely athiest, no turning back.

Another thing I began to consider after that, was the time that religion began. And it explained perfectly well why people were so willing to accept it without question. Because at the time, there was no science. Nobody else could tell you why anything happened. So people eagerly accepted any information someone could offer that provided an answer to their questions. Think of it this way, had religion not existed before today, and we still knew everything we did about science, and I suggested to everyone that in spite of what we already know, the universe was ACTAULLY created by an invisible super-being that nobody can see in 7 days, and this super-being only talks to me in my head, and that I met his son, born of a woman who never in her life had sex, and that all we had to do is follow whatever he said to me, and we'd live forever in a utopia after we died... do you think the world would see the light, or lock me in a padded room and throw away the key? I can't speak for you guys, but I'm betting on the latter.

Thoguh I have mainly bashed on Christianity here, it's only because that's the religion that I grew away from, I have nothing against Christians, people have a right to believe whatever they please. I apologize if anybody has been offended by this.