So one of our beloved trolls on TA has actually been asking some important questions. I asked myself the same questions once and my answers led me to becoming an atheist. So I'm posting the reason behind my strong atheism as well as my response to some of his more significant questions.



The origin of the universe



The more research you read and the more deductive reasoning you are exposed to, the more it appears that every complex structure originated though…

I was raised a christian (even admitting that makes me cringe). When I was 11, I started to have my doubts. I can remember exactly how old I was because it really bothered me how I was only 11 yet the things that my parents, teachers, and people I respected believed in were beginning to seem ridiculous to me. Time went on and come 16 I had become quite firmly an atheist (and somewhat of a modern Marxist, but that's another story). I explored much of philosophy from modern times going back;…