I have two older brothers. They are both athiests, so I emailed recently asking why they didn't believe in God, and this is what one of them said, copied and pasted directly from his email:
1. Death, disease, war, famine, rape, child abuse, poverty, nuclear weapons, torture, genocide, natural disasters, and on and on. An omnipotent being, who could stop it all in the blink of an eye, especially when it's happening to his "children," but doesn't? Why? And don't give me the standard "god works in mysterious ways," nothing justifies any of this. Which brings me to my next point...
2. The existence of god provides no meaning of life. One of the major running themes in the bible (especially the old testament) is the concept that god...