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1. Alex, 18, Indiana
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... 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 ...
2. Maria, 52, London
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... idea of a benevolent God earlier than I might otherwise have done. I don't believe in God because once I'd engaged my brain and started seriously examining all the religious ideas I'd been raised with, ...
3. Marcus, 29, New Delhi
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood." Sometimes the most obvious, simple answer really is correct. I don't believe in god/s because the idea of god - an omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent god ...
4. Gareth, 27¾, Edinburgh
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... benevolent figure guiding our fates. I was brought up as a Christian, a member the Church in Wales, and I was quite religious for a lot of my youth. However, in many ways I think my upbringing was almost ...
5. Becky, 50
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... as you sat beneath the stars huddled next to the fire when a storm was on the horizen? " With stories that began "In the begining god....". So now I'm a humanist, and I have forgiven myself and my"awakening" ...
6. Ben, 19, Hays
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
I don't believe in gods because of the inconsistencies. I was raised as a Christian, a Methodist to be more specific. (Ironically one of the less dogmatic branches of Christianity) throughout my childhood ...
7. Ben, 23, London
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
I don’t believe in God because the idea just doesn’t fit in with everything we do know and have evidence for.  I used to have vague feelings I thought were religious, but when I grew up, I could think ...
8. Doug, 42, San Diego
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... misplaced faith. Where are the miracles from an omnipotent, omnibenevolent God who loves us all as His children? Why does the baby need to die painfully in God's great plan? Why can't He tell you the reason ...
9. Chris, 23, Minnesota
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... of all evil.  But then they say God is absolutely good and absolutely powerful.  The obvious difficulty with these premises is that a benevolent, omnipotent being cannot enable evil's existence and remain ...
10. John, 64
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... is necessary for the benefit of what can come after me, and that I had my chance because of the uncountable deaths of all the developing beings who went before me.  I would rather not die, and do not look ...
11. Eldon, 66, Florida
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... rest of my life I spent learning and teaching law, and the exposure to the multifold agonies of humanity led me beyond benign agnosticism to Epicurus' view, that if gods exist they wouldn't be concerned ...
12. Aniket, 30, Toronto
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... it's more of a wishful thinking than the truth. Benevolent all powerful god exists, because we want him to exist. His is existence is in our minds – a massive hallucination may be. I tended more towards ...
13. Leonard, 32, South East, UK
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... accumulating massive quantities of wealth. I have BEng, MSc and PhD degrees in technology-related disciplines. I work as a research assistant in a high-technology research lab.  ...
14. John, 49, London
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... let alone is necessary. Now that my children are adolescents and deciding for themselves what to believe in Dawkins, Hitchins and Harris provide them with what I did not have the benefit of, rational thoughtful ...
15. Steve, 20, Ontario
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... and praying for solutions will only condemn us to fail. I hope the day will come that logic and reasoning will prevail, as it is something the world over would benefit from. Until then, I hope to ...
16. The National Secular Society
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... influence in the Government, the disestablishment of the Church of England, the removal of the (unelected) Bench of Bishops from the House of Lords and for the conversion of religious schools (paid for ...

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