God is a very vague term, which god are we talking about?
If it's the abrahimic god then I could go on and on and on about this. I am going to copy a part of a post made by someone else a long time ago. The total amount of suffering in the natural world and the unfairness among human beings is one of the strongest reasons why I am an atheist to the abrahimic god.
"Why does this all powerful creator, all loving and caring intelligent designer, create plagues, droughts, tsunamis, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, wars, cancers and hundreds of debilitating diseases and serious body malfunctions? Why does he permit millions of both young and old to starve to death or die of miserable diseases? Why punish millions of INNOCENT children in this horrible way?
There is a parasitic worm in West Africa that bores through the eyes of children and causes total blindness for the rest of their lives. This is the work of an all caring and loving god???
Why does this all powerful and caring god permit totally "innocent children" to die at birth? Or worse, be born lacking eyesight, a fully developed brain, deaf and dumb, missing limbs etc.? Why are some born stupid and others with super intelligence? Why are some born into wealth and others pauper poor? Why are his human creations designed to deteriorate into a miserable and devastating old age?
Why did this all powerful and loving creator create things like sharks, jelly fish, octopus, lions, tigers, rhinoceros, poisonous snakes, stinging and poisonous insects like scorpions, hornets and other wasps, poisonous plants etc.? Why did this caring benevolent god create animals (including man) that need to painfully kill and eat other animals to survive?
World War I claimed 9,000,000 lives of people of many religious faiths.
World War II indiscriminately claimed over 20,000,000 lives of people of all ages and religious faiths, plus a vast destruction of property and more millions maimed for life.
The recent Asian Tsunami has claimed the lives of 250,000 men, women and children of all religious persuasions. Over 100,000 of these were totally innocent children!
There were three major epidemics of the Bubonic Plaque - in the 6th, 14th. and 17th centuries. The death toll was over 137 million men, women and totally innocent children.
The influenza of 1918-1919 killed at least 25 million men, women and innocent children indiscriminately.
Diseases like malaria, AIDS, tuberculosis, etc. maim and kill millions indiscriminately every year. More millions die of starvation and malnutrition.
These afflicted the young and old, atheists and those of all religious persuasions.
Meanwhile MAN, not god, has developed defenses and cures for hundreds of serious diseases. Man has learned to create shelter, heat and cooling, purify water, world wide electronic communications, power and transportation systems including flying through the air.
Perhaps your loving and caring god is actually a cruel and heartless torturing tyrant. If he treats us so cruelly during life, why do you think he will let us enjoy peace and happiness eternally in his Heaven after death? And why does he keep all this a secret by preventing communication with our dead parents, siblings and friends?
If there is a god that created the Universe, he is obviously not an all-caring and benevolent god. Nor is he an "Intelligent Designer". The objective evidence is that, if there is a god creator, he has NO concern about the welfare of the creatures on Earth."
There are many other reasons as well like contradictions and factual errors in the quran and bible, a total lack of emperical evidence despite thousands of years of scientific advancement etc etc.Â
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