No, I was an Atheist before reading the Bible, but it did help strengthen my doubt.

Read that awful book, or read 'Banned books of the Bible ', better

It certainly helped

The bible was a large part of it. My age group was supposed to read the old testament for church at the same time I was reading Greek mythology for school. Placed side by side like that, I could not believe the bible was anything other than just more mythical stories.

No, the bible didn't make me an atheist. It the lack of sciencetific proof of creation, having religion cramed down my throat, and having a family member imply I would go to hell if I changed sects.

No, reading the bible made me become a pagan for 23 years. Then I became an agnostic for a few years. Then I became an Atheist.

I really believe most people claim they believe because its accepted mental illness. To just go along to make it easier for them they don't have to speak the truth.

The lies how religious people treated others and each other, the world full of crime hate and con artists using religion to steal from the poor. Giving the false hope. Then someone gave me a bible and cemented my atheism even deeper in my mind. I compiled a list of over 50 terrible and misleading passages.

Contradictions and errors, but I was to young to read it when my disbelief began. I was pretty skeptical after less than a year of Sunday school.

Yup. One of the quickest routes to being an atheist is actually reading the Bible.

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Indirectly, yes. The Bible, as understood by my particular sect, made various predictions of cause and effect, and advanced various explanations about why things were as they were; these explanations and predictions were usually (and, often, spectacularly) wrong when compared to lived experience. So I found a working epistemology to replace my broken one.

Doing that enabled me to read the Bible in a more critical and rational way, which confirmed that it was bunk.

The Bible didn't make me an atheist but helps a lot!!! Too many contractions, selfish , incest, murders etc. Insane book. That's crazy think that many people based their lives on this.

It started with the misogyny, homophobia, genocide and slavery...but the final nail, so to speak, for me, was the complete and utter lack of any evidence whatsoever for the existence of any god.

No! Obviously, God made me an atheist.

But, seriously, Gawdawful's alleged actions in the Bible did start me on the path.
Everyone talked about all the humans that died in Noah's flood because they were wicked...and wouldn't tell me why all the innocent animals had to drown horrids deaths too.
No one would tell me why Gawdawful demanded the sacrifice of so many animals to appease his lust for death.
No one would tell me why there were talking snakes and donkeys...but animals lives didn't matter.

By the time I was 10-12, I was calling "God" by my name for him "Gawdawful" because, damn, he's an asshole and I tried to point out to people what a monster he was and no one would listen....

So, yeah, the horrendous stories of murder, death, hate, and destruction in the Bible -- all perpetrated by Gawdawful -- definitely is the basis for my complete dismissal of his existence.

It was a combination of the buybull, the clergy and the so-called christians. I saw them every day professing to love everyone yet marginalizing the most vulnerable of our society.

No! The fact that people invented god in their own image, if there was a god what are the chances of "it" looking like us? An all knowing deity would be able to see the mess we were likely to make of things and not give us the power or the tools to do so.

By the time I was 15, I had read the Bible from cover to cover 3 times. Each time I read it, it became more clear that it became more and more apparent that it certainly was not a book of truth.

It helped, it definitely helped

No arrogant theists, and especially some of my school teachers made me an Atheist.
(Including one who tried to teach his pupils that animals had no feelings or emotions, only mechanical behaviour which just seemed to replicate human emotion, and that therefore it was wrong to feel empathy for them. Which made me realize that:- One, if you go down the religious route you will end up accepting any rubbish to make it fit your theology. And. Two, being a complete psychopath is a big help in a teaching career.)

I always was an Atheist, even before reading the bible.

i don't think it had anything to do with it.

The Christian Bible made it so I did not accept that the Christian God exists. As for the other countless gods I have reject too. It was a long process for me to become an atheist. World religion classes also helped. I can't say it was only one thing, but loads of different reasons.

Not really but I can see how it would

Not but the church helped...

Yep.

Figured out the bible was BS when I was in early grade school. Contradictions with reality convinced me the bible was no different then any other DC or Marvel comic.