Did you choose to be an atheist? CAN one choose to be an atheist? [Spirituality & Religion]

For me, not believing in a god is not a choice any more than not believing in santa claus is a choice.
I simply don't believe the story. The tales are improbable, the evidence unconvincing.
I can't decide that i believe that which i do not believe.

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Northwest · M

Some people need the “comfort” of religion. I have no problem with it, as long as they don’t try to impose it, or their moral codes, on others.

The parting of the sea may be real. At the time, the water was pretty shallow. If you build a model, to simulate what happens if the wind was blowing, for a few days, like it does in certain conditions, it can create a semi-tunnel through the shallow water. That would be science