I was raised as a catholic and attended CCD as a child. My first inklings of disbelief came about with the discovery of other religions and how they each claimed to be "the one true path". However, none of them submitted anything even close to evidence for their superiority or truth, and so I fell away and became a Deist until my sophmore year in highschool where I read Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion". It fleshed out many of the ideas and thoughts I had but in a much more beautiful and clear-thinking manner. It answered all the so-called "proofs" of Apologetics and it made me into the Atheist I am today. Other writers such as Sam Harris were also an important inspiration. Furthermore, study of world history and modern social problems has shown me how potent a force for evil Religion is. Almost every tragedy and conflict I see on the news [from the Iraq war to the conflicts with Israel and Palestine to the myriad of Social problems Americans are going through,unlike other secular industrialized nations] are either caused or made more severe by religious faith. In conclusion, I don't believe in gods because there is no evidence and has never been any evidence for them. The story of religion is a story of ignorance, and it is an ignorance I sincerely hope will be relegated to the dustbin of history.

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