I don't believe in gods because of my study of religious traditions and practices.  I observed how many religions claim to have a monopoly on morality or divine revelation, and from that I realized that my own faith's claims were no more valid than the claims of any other belief system.  I was raised as a Christian, but once I realized that its claims no longer seemed valid, I relinquished my faith.  Also, there were things about comparative religions which showed me the human origins of religion: the similarities between Hinduism before the Bhagavad-Gita and Judaism before Jesus, how both traditions emphasized ritual and law yet later yielded to a special intermediary between human beings and the divine.  I also realized that the Bible didn't seem coherent to me anymore, especially when passages like Numbers 31 conflict with the idea of a benevolent god.  Finally, I realized that natural explanations about our world are much better than supernatural explanations.  A church without a lightning rod struck by lightning or a mosque damaged by an earthquake tells us a lot about the validity of naturalistic explanations, and also tells us about the bankruptcy of supernatural explanations.

I have always been fascinated by how people think and interact. When I was a child, I was typically the outsider in social situations, so I have a lot of experience analyzing social behavior on an amateur level.  I am currently a college student.  I am interested in politics, philosophy, religion, psychology, humor and many other things.