Christians: In your honest, non-antagonistic opinion, why do you think that atheists are atheist?

Me:

No evidence that convinces me. And what convinces someone else will not convince me. I have different standards and I expect a god to know that. And trust me I keep looking for stuff even now. But I have ended up tricking myself before. I'm not going to do it again just because I want something to be true. I go by the saying of; extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I expect an actual god to be so obvious that no one has doubt.

Which leads into the claim of Romans 1:20 and that everything is obvious and atheist's are without excuse and actually do believe but just want to sin. In fact one can turn the whole argument around and say people only want to be Christians so a god will forgive them of their crimes and they can keep sinning as long as they are convinced Jesus is real.

Then their is the excuse of hardening your heart against god and that god is trying to talk to you but you are just ignoring him because you hate him. My response is, you mean like god did to pharaoh so he could show off? Also a person can hate the character of god and still not believe in him. Just like I hated Snape in the HP books when I first read him. Doesn't make Snape real just cause I hated him.

And then free will. Again like Pharaoh? Or a rapist choosing to rape but the victim's will being ignored by god but the rapist will being listened to by god. Looks like a persons will is only honored randomly and its usually the bad person's will that gets honored.

And then the whole idea of sin is an entire crap shoot depending on who you ask. I have seen everything from atheists, Satanists and porn addicts all the way to gamers, vegans and even children go to hell on those lists.

So taking together no evidence, the immorality of the followers, and the holes in all of the bible and their arguments how exactly do they expect me to just stop thinking and simply do what I'm told. As someone with a mental illness that is exactly the way my illness has always acted.

I think for most of us our beliefs are influenced by our environment and experiences

Have you taken trigonometry?
Ok, do you still go to a class on it every week? And do you pay the school ten percent of your income for the going to that class?

Religion should be treated like math. You get trained your done. You get the certificate. You're through.

For some reason religion insists that you keep attending class. People say no. I'm done. But then they're called atheists because they won't play the game.

And then there's the creed. It's over five hundred years old and full of nonsense. People aren't going to go along with it anymore.

I think the reasons vary. Some started as Christians and then didn't believe it anymore, sometimes due to experiences within the church. Some never did believe it. And some wanted to believe it but weren't convinced.

Should someone who believes in what our culture would call a supernatural origin of the physical universe, but not call that a god, be considered an atheist? The postulated Big Bang coming from an infinitely small spec, and forming the entire universe is basically supernatural...

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wonder what god would be saying if he ready this

Anybody who takes seriously a dummy with this type of avatar should be ashamed. 😂😂