Faith has always been a complicated thing for me. My religiosity is very tightly tied to the manic phase of my bipolar illness. When I am on the manic side of the illness, I tend to be extremely religious. But otherwise, I am generally not religious at all. I am 58 years old, and I have been studying the Bible and the Christian faith from both sides of the religious fence for most of my adult life. I am currently agnostic but leaning towards atheism. There is a simple reason for this, and it's because God never thinks, says, or does anything at all except in the minds of religious believers. It is also true that if God does exist, then He doesn't have much to do because our universe and our world and everything about how it all works can be explained by entirely natural processes.
The purpose of this site is to explain why I no longer believe and to do so calmly and rationally. But I would like to say right now that I do not "hate God" nor do I hate the Christian faith. I would actually love for there to be a loving God who cares about the intimate details of our lives. I just don't see any evidence that such a God actually exists. And I think that there is beauty to be found in the Christian faith, but being beautiful in some respects doesn't make it true.
I will be covering many different topics on this site, and I hope you find your time here well spent.
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