This is hard one to get into because I’m not an expert on the brain so cannot do this topic justice. But I have learnt all about confirmation bias and cognitive dissidence. Also how humans have an inherent need for a higher power. The brain can play tricks on us and make us believe crazy things. It is easily fooled and manipulated.

If you really want to learn more about this, I suggest watching the TV show "Brain Games". It is very enlightening. It's interactive and entertaining. It gets you to do experiments yourself and then shows you how your brain has just been fooled.

This is another topic I can’t really get into, as it is such a big one and I don’t have all the research. But it is out there.

Christianity would like us to believe that things like virgin births and resurrections were unique to Christianity but aren’t. They have been around in religions older than the biblical ones. The Noah’s Ark story is a rip off of an earlier religion’s tales (eg Epic of Gilgamesh). The story of Adam and Eve isn’t unique either. There is also evidence that Jesus may have been influenced by Buddhism 

I’m not going to relay my testimony, but my faith was built on a number of things from the late 80s, early 90s, where I believe I had answered prayers and God was moving in my life. Those things carried me for another 20 years or so and then one day I realised, wow… where has God been all this time? I then began to realise that the things I thought were from God had been a result of my own actions.

I have been part of churches where church leaders and evangelists had made prophecies about how the church would be a force for God in the community. Most of those churches no longer exist.

This is another topic I’m not going into here as you can see these arguments on other websites. 

Apart from not attending church I hadn’t turned into some rebellious evil person with no morals. I am still the same decent human being, not being led by Satan, as many Christians would like to think.

Those who I spoke to didn’t understand or at least made no effort to understand, simply maintaining their Christian mind-sets that I rebelled and that deep down still believed. Those who never knew me as a Christian simply adopted the mind-set that I was never a true Christian to begin with. As if they had any clue at all about my Christian walk!

There are so many Christians going around doing terrible things. Yet God does nothing to correct these people. He lets them do their worst.

One may say they were never true Christians, but surely if they are working in churches or doing things in the name of God, God should be stepping in and dealing with them?

One may say that would be a violation of the freewill of the people pretending to be Christians, but come on! Is that a good reason to let them run rampant and do whatever they want? Of course not! You can stop bad people from doing bad things and not be seen as violating their freewill. Justice trumps freewill anyway and it should when it comes to any god too. Otherwise what use is that god? 

Reasons 80-90

Reason 98: God answers mundane prayers but not where it matters most

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