1. Faithlessness & Depression
Perhaps you have been feeling sad for a long period of time and you begin to question your faith. Significant events in your life can make you wonder if God would actually allow those harmful moments to take place towards you and say that he cares about you. 1
2. Suffering2
Suffering is similar to the problem of evil, whereas how can God allow suffering in the universe if he is an all-loving being. Everyday, we see thousands of people die everyday, diseases such as E. coli spreading rapidly, and civil unrest in places such as the Middle East. How can God allow suffering and say that he is all loving and all knowing? Is he sleeping while the world is going crazy?3
3. Omnipotence Paradox4
This paradox asks a question that is contradictory for God. For example, “Can God create an object so heavy that even God cannot lift it?” or “Can God ask a question so difficult that even he cannot answer it?” Was he lonely?5
4. Free Will6
The argument from free will asks if God is an omniscient being, how free will can exist. If God has all the knowledge of future events, then how can humans be free to choose the events that affect them? For example, if I were to choose between wearing a red shirt or blue shirt, but God already knows I am going to choose the red shirt, then how did I really have a choice in choosing the red shirt since God already knew which one I would choose. I think it is bizard. How can he give us a free will and know what’s going to happen in our lives? At he still wants to control. 7
5. Varying Religions8
Since all major religions give different examples of what God wants and who God is, the argument can be made that it is impossible for all religions to be correct in describing God. Why do we have different religions?9
6. No Reason to Exist10
Since knowledge, feelings, desire, etc. are all human traits, God does not have any reason to feel All-loving, or he has no reason to create humans for his own “personal satisfaction”. This is really egoistical. 11
7. Problem of Evil12
A common topic in philosophy, the problem of evil deals with the fact that if God is omnipotent and omniscient, how can he allow evil to exist in the world. The problem implies that there is a contradiction with God’s attributes. And he blames us for our attitudes. Is that an immature approach?13
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8. I find it boring16
I find religions boring because they are man made rule or “god’s rules”. You have to follow God and do his will and it seems like God doesn’t know what legal majority is. We live in the world where adults can make their own decisions. I hear from many fundamentalists that if you don’t follow their god then you will get cursed and he won’t bless you anymore. You don’t have a life anymore because your whole life is delighted to serve the one who lives in the unknown world. I find it also confusing that God is the god of justice. Then if he is a god of justice why are there so many people who get mistreated in the world? And what does he do about it? As an Agnostic person, I find it confusing and dry to be religious. 17
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9. Judgemental thinking and Wars 19
Does God have a foreign policy? If he has one then who does it look like? I have read both the Old Testament. Sodom was one of a group of five towns, the Pentapolis (Wisdom 10:6): Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim, and Bela -- also called Zoar (Genesis 19:22). The Pentapolis region is also collectively referred to as "the Cities of the Plain" (Genesis 13:12) since they were all sited on the plain of the Jordan River, in an area that constituted the southern limit of the lands of the Canaanites (Genesis 10:19). Lot, a nephew of Abram (Abraham) chose to live in Sodom, because of the proximity of good grazing for his flocks (Genesis 13:5-11).
In Genesis 18, God informs Abraham that he plans to destroy the city of Sodom because of its wickedness. Abraham pleads with God not to destroy Sodom, and God agrees that he would not destroy the city if there were 50 righteous people in it, then 45, then 30, then 20, or even ten righteous people. The Lord's two angels only found one righteous person living in Sodom, Abraham's nephew Lot. Consequently, God destroyed the city.
In the Tanach version, Genesis19:4-5, the final episode in the story of Sodom is described as the angels visit Lot to warn him to flee:
When they had not yet retired, and the people of the city, the people of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, the entire populace from every end [of the city]. And they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, and let us have relations with them."
Lot refused to give the visiting angels to the inhabitants of Sodom. He offered them his two daughters instead, but the people refused. The men were struck with blindness, allowing Lot and his family, who were then instructed to leave the city, to escape. As they made their escape the angels commanded that Lot and his family not look back under any circumstance. However as Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed with fire and brimstone by God, Lot's wife looked back longingly at the city, and she was instantly transformed into a pillar of salt.
In Ezekiel 16:48-50 God compares Jerusalem to Sodom, saying "Sodom never did what you and your daughters have done." He explains that the sin of Sodom was that "She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me."
The Wilderness
The first thing we need to understand about Israel in the wilderness is that Israel hardened their hearts. The quotation found in vs. 7-11 is from Psa. 95:7-11, where the Holy Spirit warned Israel not to be like their fathers in the wilderness. And the writer to the Hebrews found this warning to be just as necessary in his day.
In the wilderness, the Israelites hardened their hearts in rebelling against God. They tested (or tried) God with their lack of faith. And that is the reason they did not enter God's rest. God became angry with that generation in the wilderness because of their persistent rebellion (Psa. 106:13-33). And so in Num. 14:22-24 and 26-35, God swore that they would not enter His rest. Of all those over the age of twenty when they left Egypt, only Joshua and Caleb entered the Promised Land. All the rest, of which there were 603,548 men, died in the wilderness. Because of their hardened hearts, Israel departed from God. They rebelled against God. And because of their rebellion, they fell short of the Canaan rest that had been promised to them. The Israelis didn’t have a right to free speech. 20
10. The none-evidence of God’s vengeance and vindication to those who hurt other people. (Religion's way to deal with forgiveness)
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Life is full of choices and the only we learn in life is by dealing with the consequences of our choices. There are many people who get mistreated, abused, raped, beaten etc. but those people don’t have the right to vengeance, because “God” says vengeance is his and he doesn’t even bring vengeance and the offenders walk free without any problems. The person who ends up paying a price is you and me. That is why I find religion so idiotic. People have a right to take advantage of you, but you have to remain silent. 23
Conclusion: I realized that God is not real. We as humans want the term “God” to have comfort in our lives and there is no evidence that God has created this world. Many believers force people to believe in their gods because they want to scare them about hell. I find religion dangerous for the life of man and his freedom. 24
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