[mbeewood]

well I don't want this topic to be about me, but I want to discuss the idea of religion in general. this is not if God exists or not, this is simply a question about based on what are we worshiping in these specific ways.

I was born and raised (still raised ) in a christian family, in a christian surrounding, my parents believe strongly in jesus and in christianity, my society as a whole is very religious, no sex before marriage, no divorce etc... and for very long, I was religious as well, always going to church and praying and reading the bible etc...

until I turned 18, left my christian school(who was governed by nuns who forced us to wear an ugly uniform and pray twice a day, and made fun of the evolution theory) went to the university(majoring in pharmacy), but we also took courses in sociology and general culture and statistics(I'll explain the relevancy of statistics later) and what I learned changed my whole view of religion

first of all, the idea of accident of birth. I was born to a chirstian family in lebanon middle east. I did not choose to be born here and to these specific parents, and I follow the same religion of my parents, just like 98% of people everywhere do, they follow the religion of their parents
if I were born in saudi arabia to muslim parents, I would have been a muslim, just as if I were born tel aviv to jewish parents, I would have been a jew. convertion is not a choice, it is an apparent choice, there is no physical barrier stopping you from converting, but statisticly speaking, how many people leave the religion of their parents and relatives and convert?(precentage speaking)
and so I realised I am only a christian because my parents taught me to be, and I realised that, for example, if I were not raised as a christian, I doubt I would have found jesus(or any other faith) on my own later

OK cool? Don't really have a response to say since there isn't anything to say.

second of all, what are we following? the gospels were written 30 to 90 years(I think) after christ, there were like 40 gospels, but the church banned all but 4, and they decided these 4 are true, and they will never tell you about the other gospels

The gospel of mark was written about the year 65 AD.

translation messed up most of the gospels, jesus says "if you get hit on your right cheek turn your left" in spain it was at some point understood as, if you get hit on the right cheek, use your sword(the sword is worn on the left side and hiting on the cheek is disrespect)

That is just untrue and doesn't make any sense. That custom is spain wouldn't have appeared until many years after the gospels were written.

no one ever saw jesus or any physical evidence of him, we believe simply what the priests told us to believe. people question all sorts of things but when it came to religious books, hardly anyone ever raises the question

Peter saw Jesus, and other apostles most likely saw him. Not to mention many of the apostles were martyrs, meaning they most likely saw and knew Jesus. The Christ myth theory is a belief held by only 1% of biblical scholars, meaning the belief that there was no Jesus is just ignorant.

third, evolution is proven to exist, I study pharmacy, the whole point of pharmacy is to understand antibiotic resistance and the ability of bacterias to acquire more pathogenic abilities, swine flu, bird flu are proof of evolution
adam and eve story is not true, earth is older than 3000 years old(as christianity claimed)

Obviously adam and eve isn't true, it's an old Jewish story. And obviously the earth is more than 3000 years old. Christianity never claimed that the earth was 3000 years old. People only came to that conclusion when they tried to add up the ages of people from the older books of the old testament which were fictional anyway. It added up to around 6000 years anyway, not the 3000 like you said.

and if adam and eve is a myth, then the original sin is a myth, then jesus died for nothing

No, the whole thing about original sin could have just been a metaphor for how humans are naturally evil and 'sinful', which I believe is quite true, in that humans always want to do immoral things. In which case Jesus still died for peoples sins because they are naturally evil regardless of Adam and Eve.

fourth, I think it is needless to explain how people are giving their lives here for their religion. you have heard how muslims commit altruistic suicides defending their lands(by the way, altruistic suicide killing an invading armed soldier is not terrorism, terrorism is the act of killing unarmed civilains) israelis fighting for their holy lands, christians and muslims in arab countries in general(including mine) struggling for governmental power and representation

Don't see how this is relevant to you becoming an atheist or to your beliefs on the existence of God.

this is just sad, everyone(christians and muslims and zionists alike) considers himself the righteous and the rest are infidels or wrong
based on what?
some books written thousands of years ago but unknown people

Again, not really relevant. You're just describing your view on the actions of certian people. Doesn't have anything to do with the existence or nonexistence of a deity. And the people who wrote the new testament were not "unknown" at all. We know quite a lot about them.


And even after all this, you have still failed to explain why you are an atheist. All you did was try to make arguments against the truthfulness of christianity, which you kind of failed at. Atheism is the nonbelief in a deity or deities. These are very seperate from christianity. Overall, I think that for your age, which you claimed was higher than 18, your knowledge in this subject is kind of embarassing, and your arguments weak.