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Why are you not religious?

I realize there are a lot of reasons but hopefully I've hit all the bases.
I am thankful that I was exposed to various religious views and was able to see at a young age that the non uniformity was the best argument agains all of them.

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ThomasLevi 6 Feb 16
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My favourite answer to do you believe in GOD?

Kitz Level 4 Mar 7, 2018
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A deity and evolution are incompatible

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I read the bible and the koran and decided that fairy tales were for children

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I was always a skeptic (trust issues), but the hypocrisy I ran into during my time in church really turned me off to the whole practice. The sheer number of times I was told I'm going to hell...

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I was so religious that I was certain that there was nothing that wasn't true about the Bible. I was completely unafraid to investigate anything I choose to "know God better" after years of investigation into many things I eventually had to admit to myself that it was a lie and I did not believe.

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I was not bought up to believe in magic so, it's reliance on magic made it total nonsense to me.

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My family are not religious and so it never took, it always seemed pretty boring to me and going nowhere .

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Religious people are some the most dishonest people I know, but as long as they gave money to the church they were praised like saints for their godliness. I was amazed at how often god told them that what they wanted to do was what he also wanted them to do.

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When I finally realized that it made no sense to damn a person for being gay (or and addict, etc) but allow a serial sinner a pass to heaven as long as they were saved.

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