Following a philosophy based on fear and guilt did not seem right. Especially when there is nothing out there.

I became atheist because I just wasn’t interested in religion to begin with, even when I went to church. I just came to realize it’s all nonsense.

Well, this was my reason for rejecting the belief that the bible is a holy book, inspired by a god. Realizing this only made me stop believing in the god described in its pages. It was in learning more science that I stopped believing in any kind of god.

That's gonna get a big, No Duh, from me.
LMFAO!

In my case, I became atheist due to observing religion's destructive effect on the well-being of Humanity The paradoxes in the "holy books" merely reinforced my atheism.

I would say he is exactly correct. In my earlier daze we did not know this and if a question came up we would ask the preacher about it on Sunday.

Just younger people are not believing the crap religion is selling them.

And now, he has to have a bodyguard most likely. Anyone else remember The Satanic Verses?
He is speaking common sense logic - something that doesn't fit well over here with evangelicals or over there with a number of extremists.

They are not lies but primitive beliefs which have mostly been disproved

and pps, the Bible does not claim to be holy either, not anywhere; "sacred" is as close as it gets, which i dunno but seems to mean more like "holy to the one holding it sacred" or whatever

ha well when someone wise in their own eyes goes looking for facts, certainly they will be confronted with lies, yes. But fwiw you might contemplate the possibility that those obvious lies are telling another story, not meant to be read literally. there are even explanatory passages in the Bible for this, let the youth ignore them if they like; they run along the lines of "you can't tell ppl with dunning-kruger syndrome anything anyway, so you may as well provide fuel for their ersatz fire." ps i am not religious fwiw