Wasting Time on God: Why I Am an Atheist

A Book Reflection

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. ― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

As I read the book, I notice how many Christians have turned atheist due to numerous questions and doubts. Atheists mainly oppose Christians the world's largest religion and all religions, and questioning the Bible, which is the world's top-selling book of all time.

Before I share my favorite part of the book that I highlighted on my Kindle, I want to point out that while Christianity has transformed sinful people into devout and better individuals, and has positively impacted many lives, the book suggests this transformation often stems from instilling fear in people.

I want to emphasize that the 21st century would be very different without religion influencing various aspects of life.

I enjoy watching atheists and religious people debate; seeing the clash of beliefs and perspectives is both satisfying and enlightening. However, in the end, real believers and atheists may not find common ground, only being human. I hope everyone will approach discussions with an open mind.

This book enlightened me further about the loopholes in the Bible, how Christians attempt to justify and defend everything, and why finding answers through questioning Jesus followers can be challenging.

I like this book because it's based on the author's experiences, and he provides a lot of examples and detailed information to support his points which has more sense, which is great! The way the author shared when he started to question religion and when asked if he wanted to go to heaven, he responded with "Nein", that is dope.

I have many favorite parts in this book, so I'll try to limit my highlights. For more context, you should read the book yourself.

6 It’s impossible to deny the existence of what one knows exists. Therefore, atheists don’t deny the existence of God. Atheists just don’t believe in God. After all, why should they? Believing is not knowing.

This is how atheists define themselves, often misunderstood by religious individuals as not believing in the existence of God.

6 Replace “Atheism” with “lack of belief in God” and it becomes evident that calling Atheism a religion is ridiculous.

As defined by Oxford Languages, religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a God or gods. In short, atheism is not a belief system nor is it a religion.

6 There is no need for a word like Asantaclausism, since there is no Santaclausism to contrast.

The logic he is trying to point out is why there is atheism.

11 My god is not your god, but which god is God? Therefore, in his name we strike each other dead.” (From the song Mein Gott, by Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung, an Austrian rock band)

This is why religion is confusing

14 Religion separates people.

I agree.

14 Those who go back to the church usually go back more devout, sometimes fanaticized.

This is what happened to the author: he shared his doubts, stayed away for a while, then tried to come back because he experienced a weird heartbeat.

I've also observed this with my friends at school who were Roman Catholic. They initially doubted, became agnostic, and have now deepened their love for God. They have become some of the holiest people I've met, even more spiritually connected than some priests.

18 All the major religions are subdivided into branches, Christianity being the champion, with thousands of denominations, although the Bible makes a point of stressing that “God is not the author of confusion” (1 Corinthians 14:33).

1 Corinthians 14:33 states, 'For God is not a God of disorder but of peace, as in all the meetings of God's holy people.'

An atheist emphasizing this to Christians: people, real doers.

Don't tell me to follow your words; actions speak louder than words.

19 Believing in God has never prevented humans from practicing inhumanities. On the contrary: many atrocities have been committed precisely because of the belief in God, similar to a medicine that, instead of doing good, does harm.

Armed conflicts between Catholics and Protestants, such as the Thirty Years’ War, whose death toll may have reached 11.5 million, devastated large areas of Europe.

If you can, imagine adherents of “Love your enemies” mutually slaughtering each other for 30 long years! - author

20 Jesus having preached love never prevented his followers from stealing other peoples’ lands and enslaving them.

The invasion and colonization of the Americas led to the extermination of up to 138 million indigenous people. Documents like El Requerimiento prove that Jesus’ worshipers were fully convinced they were doing God’s will by dominating non-Christian nations. - author

Don't forget Philippines.

20 If the overwhelming majority of Europeans are Christians and, consequently, believe in a god who orders them to love and forgive their enemies, how could there be in Europe so many battles?

26 Bolsonaro shouted: “I want everyone armed!”. How could a man who says and does these things be, for example, guest of honor at the March for Jesus, an event that brings together millions of Christians?

Trump and Bolsonaro use religion to help them win

Just as they do with Trump, millions of Evangelicals believe that Bolsonaro was chosen by God to lead a war of good against evil.

6969 “God has no religion.” — Mahatma Gandhi

Yeah

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” — Albert Einstein

26 The historical evidence contradicts the notion that the belief in God does good to Humanity. To reject it is to deny reality to escape a psychologically uncomfortable truth. The Bible itself tells the story of people who committed barbarisms precisely because of their devotion to God. However, since they were motivated by religious fervor, these people are portrayed not as bad, but good examples.

very disturbing

27 By Hitler’s and Stalin’s mustaches! Without blushing, the god of the Bible confesses that he lets children be burned by their own parents in order to have a reason to savagely punish the latter (to the point of almost exterminating them) and show who’s boss. The very busy Yahweh, who on several occasions saved biblical characters from death, takes the trouble to chasten the parents, but not to save the children.

He is stating this part of the bible, Then God rains sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground (Genesis 19:24–25). God destroyed both cities because of their sexual wickednesses.

God killing his creations for not making them properly the way he wanted them to be haha.

Maybe God forgot to forgive his people because he was busy making another galaxy

28 Indeed, not a few Christians see Islam’s holy book as the source of Islamic violence, even though the Bible contains more accounts of carnage perpetrated by believers in Yahweh than the Koran by believers in Allah.

We can't say accurately who is right but I guess it's based on the great cleansing during the time of Noah.

29 If God exists and the Bible is the Word of God, God is like that. And if God is like that and sends to Hell those who reject God because God is like that, it’s with great pride and pleasure that I, Paulo Bittencourt, go to Hell.

ahaha legend!

29 It’s impossible for a believer whose brain is not completely compromised by the religious brainwashing not to ask himself: “Is the Bible of divine origin?”. If it is, it should be a book that no man, no number of men, could produce. It should contain the perfection of philosophy. It should perfectly accord with every fact in nature. There should be no mistakes in astronomy, geology or as to any subject or science. Its morality should be the highest, the purest.

Robert Green Ingersoll, in his critique of the Bible from 1894, questions its divine origin and perfection by scrutinizing its moral, scientific, and philosophical inconsistencies. He argues that if the Bible were truly divine, it should surpass human capabilities in every aspect: flawless in philosophy, perfectly aligned with scientific truths, and embodying the highest morality and justice. Ingersoll highlights numerous contradictions and moral failings within the Bible, including its endorsement of slavery, polygamy, and violence, which he deems incompatible with true mercy and justice.

Ingersoll concludes that the Bible reflects the flawed understanding and cultural biases of its human authors rather than divine wisdom, a viewpoint shaped by the evolving insights of science and moral reasoning over time

30 Millions of Jews who, throughout History, were expelled from their countries or killed by Christians, despite worshiping the same god. Surely, this sentence made the dear reader think of Stalin’s Soviet Union or Mao Zedong’s China or Pol Pot’s Cambodia. Make no mistake: socialist dictatorships are extremely religious nations.

30 The realization that religion generates sectarianism and violence because it’s obscurantism gave birth to the Enlightenment, which germinated secular governments, in which there is separation between Church and State. The less religious, the less barbaric the world became.

Woah, history

31 I’ve been to North Korea. I can tell you, North Korea is the most religious State I’ve ever been to. I used to wonder, when I was a kid, what would it be like praising God and thanking him all day and all night. You can leave North Korea. You can get out of their Hell and their Paradise by dying. Out of the Christian and Muslim one, you cannot.

32 Note that where there is no religious freedom there is no freedom of speech. What happened to the Israelites who dared to criticize Yahweh’s representatives? They were stoned to death. To inhibit critical thinking, the authors of the Bible invented stories in which God struck rebels dead, or, because of them, punished also innocent people, by sending enemy armies, droughts or plagues.

33 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 13:6-10)

If this order was valid only for that time (the most famous of the excuses Christians give to the parts of the Bible that cause them discomfort and embarrassment), God no longer cares if anyone worships another god. - author

Every now and then, a father or mother kills their children and tells the police they heard the voice of God commanding them to do it. And how do Christians react to this news? They call these parents crazy. - author

“The belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.” — Thomas Paine

34 (Exodus 32:26-29) - Killing their own children was the Levites’ career aptitude test to work for God as priests. Yahweh is comparable to the powerful boss of a mafia clan who spreads fear through threats, violence and murder in order to gain power, control and respect.

If a father beating his children is cowardice, a god sending floods, droughts, famines and plagues against his creatures is what? Apropos of that, if God finds time to punish Humanity, why not to eradicate diseases and prevent the rape of children? - author

35 If I were asked to sum up the Old Testament in one word, I would say: “Punishment”.

This heap of copies of copies of more copies of rags of fragments of parchments from the Iron Age (of the biblical books there are no originals and only one copy is complete) is about nothing else but a deity cruelly scourging people for making use of the free will he himself gave them. - author

In 1971, George Johnson, a New York City police officer, arrested a man who was rifling through coats looking for money in a Times Square building. Instead of calling a paddy wagon, Johnson took the thief to the station ten blocks on foot. As they walked, they smoked and chatted amicably. When they arrived, Johnson was told his prisoner was a wanted criminal with a history of attacking police officers. Asked how he had managed to bring a dangerous man to the precinct walking, Johnson replied: “I guess he liked being treated with respect”. Perhaps Yahweh would have been able to get the Israelites to do what he wanted if he had treated them with respect, instead of blowing smoke from his nostrils, threatening and punishing them. - author

Luckily, the biblical accounts of God’s wrath are legends. They are so cruel that it doesn’t take a genius to realize they were written with the purpose of frightening. A frightened people is easily controlled - author

36 At his command, the person was summarily stoned. The same god who shouted on the cross “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” didn’t forgive two innocent beings (Adam and Eve had no idea what good and evil are) for taking a bite on a fruit.

I have this question now: if God loves his only son, why did he choose to sacrifice him to save people from Adam and Eve's sins? It's illogical that we are born into this world with inherited sin that we didn't even know about in the first place. Why would you choose to sacrifice your only son for other people? If I'm a father, I would not do that. Well God is exempted.

36 As confirmed by pastor Juan de Paula Santos Siqueira, in his article Glorificando a Deus na Provação: Não Desperdiçando o Sofrimento (Glorifying God in Trials: Not Wasting Suffering): Pain is the best way to make the Christian grow in intimacy with God. Suffering produces faith and perseverance, making the believer more mature and righteous.

wow

38 The god of love created pain. This is a teaching of the Bible. If pain is a gift from Jesus, is painkiller a gift from Satan?

makes sense

39 Suffering is God’s punishment for bad people and God’s trial for good people. It’s nuts. Devotion to Yahweh, alias Elohim, alias El Shaddai, alias Yeshua doesn’t prevent cauterization of conscience. The vast majority of followers of Jesus don’t live as he commanded, but think or pretend they do.

Yeah, I also dislike people who are outwardly religious but don't truly practice their faith. They preach like saints, but afterwards, their actions contradict their values, which undermines trust in their sincerity. Is their faith genuine or just for show?

At the end, they are also human sometimes greedy, ambitious, arrogant and

Serving God doesn’t prevent believers from being cheaters.

41 In a 2018 interview, pastoress Damares Regina Alves revealed that, between the ages of six and ten, she was sexually abused by two pastors. One of them, a missionary staying at Alves’ home, repeatedly raped her. With a little bag of rodenticide in her hand, the girl climbed a guava tree to commit suicide, but was stopped by Jesus (the same one who didn’t stop her from being sexually abused for four years), who made her drop the poison. Years later, the pastoress discovered that, like her mother, her father, also a pastor, knew about the abuses, but did nothing because he had been instructed by the church to just pray.

Same thoughts. If God is truly watching us, what does he actually do when situations like the one above happen?

44 If believing in God didn’t make me considerably better, would disbelieving in God make me considerably worse than I was? Clearly, being a good person doesn’t depend on believing in God or caring about him, even less on reading a holy book or going to church.

true

47 Christians swear to God that Christianity is the true religion. If it is, God loves discord, because it lives at the heart of Christianity, reason why it’s full of splits.

same questions I asked to Father Redan

48 It doesn’t take a genius to deduce that accepting the existence of only one god and insisting that only one religion holds the truth inevitably generates from arrogance and division to intolerance and violence.

Ironically, a monotheistic religion is practiced by polygroups.

49 The truth is that, besides being ultraconservative, the Adventist Church is among the most exclusivist and separative, not very different from the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

I don't like tithe!

51 The mere fact that there are so many religions and that they compete against each other and never think of uniting proves that religion has nothing to do with truth, but with power, money and other things.

53 If there is a biblical story that proves that Yahweh is an invention of primitive minds, it’s The Plagues of Egypt. So dear to Christians, because it’s clear that Pharaoh was programmed to deny the Hebrews’ departure, so that Egypt would serve as a stage for Yahweh’s sadistic creativity:

54 “God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden” (Romans 9:18). - “God has the right to show his anger and his power” to those “who are destined for destruction” (Romans 9:22). - Oh, what brainwashing is not capable of doing! Although I had spent years reading the Bible, I had never become aware of the repugnance and insanity of the above passages.

Dear reader, the photograph entitled Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, which shows thousands of island universes in a small point of the sky. Then ask yourself: if he exists, could the being that created two trillion galaxies be the same mind that gave orders like this? - author

55 When a dictator commands to murder millions of people, it’s genocide, but when Yahweh-Jesus orders the extermination of a people, it’s perfectly justifiable? How could I be able to justify actions contrary to my nature?

Without brainwashing, only people who by nature favor cruelties would follow the Bible and the Koran. - author

56 Now, in terms of sadistic creativity, Allah, the Muslim version of Yahweh, is unbeatable: We will make the rejectors of our revelations suffer in Hell fire. As soon as the fire destroys their skins, we will give them new skins, so that they may suffer more of the torment. (Koran 4:56)

What the heck!

58 Christians learn that religious doubt is bad (although they find it good to doubt other religions), comes from Satan, who, having authorization to roam to his heart’s content the Garden of Eden, disguised himself as a talking snake to make Eve and Adam doubt.

haha

59 Best Example from the author

Based on data collected by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, in 2013 astronomers estimated that in our galaxy alone there must be 40 billion planets similar in size and conditions to ours.

Imagine, dear reader, that we sent to a planet equal to Earth a space probe with a man and a woman in a state of hibernation who, perfectly preserved, would wake up when they got there. Their memories were erased, but not the scientific knowledge they acquired at school and university.

Now, ask yourself: Knowing what we today know about the Universe and Nature, how likely is it that this couple would come to feel compelled, for example, to see that planet’s sun as a god or make animal sculptures to worship them?

Try to imagine these two believing in invisible beings with wings on their backs and in an invisible lake of fire and brimstone. This imagination exercise illustrates the reasons not only why there are so many religious beliefs but also why, over time, they diminish in quantity and influence.

The further we go back in time, the less we knew about the Universe and Nature and the more superstitious and fanatical we were. Belief in deities is, therefore, the result of incurring the Appeal to Ignorance Fallacy, whose theological variation is called God of the Gaps Fallacy, a concept that curiously goes back not to an atheist, but to an evangelist, Scotsman Henry Drummond, who already in the 19th century rebuked Christians who used knowledge gaps to try to prove the existence of God.

Still today, Appeal to Ignorance is the fallacy that believers most commit: “Science can’t explain this and that. Therefore, God exists.

Well, not knowing why something is like this and like that doesn’t prove the existence of something else, let alone of invisible beings. Admitting that one doesn’t know, for example, how exactly life originated is not shameful: it’s noble.

Shameful is not knowing, not wanting to know and “explaining” with the shameless Goddidit Fallacy.

Bang

61 What’s the Old Testament, if not a collection of tales about a people who, because they worshiped also other gods, were constantly punished, or threatened with punishment, by the zealous Yahweh? It doesn’t take a genius to realize that these tales had the objective of terrifying the Israelites, compelling them to worship only one god. However, at a time when papyrus scrolls were rare treasures and almost no one could read, these intimidations had little effect, reason why the eradication of all Yahweh’s competitors took so long.

63 When questioned by the high priest, Jesus declared: “You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One” (Mark 14:62). The New Testament states at least ten times that Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God. If it’s hard enough to believe in invisible beings, imagine in one who is sitting next to himself.

Taken from my book Com Zeus Não Se Brinca (Zeus Is Not to Be Played With [not available in English]), in which, through sarcasm, I expose the madnesses of religious thinking, an example of the cognitive dissonance the dogma of the Trinity causes in Christians: — In how many gods do you believe? One. — What’s the name of your god? — God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. - author

haha

64 Genesis 8 relates that, as soon as he got out of the ark, Noah built an altar and burned some animals (which he, with much sacrifice, had just saved from the flood): “The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: ‘[...] never again will I destroy all living creatures’”. Note, dear reader, the confirmation of the Judeo-Christian god’s primitiveness: it’s the smell of burning flesh that softens Yahweh’s heart and induces him to promise to stop being a global exterminator.

haha

Only one thing was capable of making the furious Yahweh stop killing. Guess what? Exactly: blood. As soon as God sensed the smell of the barbecue that David made on an altar, the plague ceased — after already having sent 70,000 people to their deaths.

hahahahahahahahaha

68 The more scientific knowledge, the less willingness to believe baseless things. At least in developed countries, the God of the Gaps is in retreat. In some of them, religious people are already a minority.

This is why science is often compared to religion. However, science is not a religion, despite skeptics arguing from their faith-based perspectives. Science is rooted in facts, leading to conflicts during debates because science asks questions while religion often attempts to reason, even when it's illogical. Knowledge empowers people to think critically and question, whereas religion, if something cannot be explained, God exists.

The widespread acceptance of the Scientific Theory of Evolution isn't coincidental. Its overwhelming evidence has led to its recognition as truth, embraced even by a significant number of Christians and Muslims. Evolution does not inherently oppose God; rather, it proves the notion of a six-day creation and a young Earth, which are often considered myths by fundamentalists.

70 First, religion makes you believe. Then, it makes you be afraid of questioning.

70 Genesis 3:6 - Could this be the reason why the god of the Bible has an ambiguous relationship with knowledge, sometimes hating it? For religious beliefs, knowledge is threatening, because it has the power to destroy what keeps them alive: faith.

72 When the story is evidently ridiculous, just say it’s allegory, and that’s it. Talking snakes and donkeys? Allegory. Noah’s Ark? Allegory. Man-swallowing whale? Allegory. And second because Christians don’t accept this same excuse to justify the infantilities of the holy books of other religions. Besides, who decides what in the Bible is allegory? Millions of fundamentalist Christians, among them Adventists, take the entire Bible literally.

I regularly notice this among devout, non-skeptical followers.

If it doesn’t matter which version of Yahweh is worshiped, Jews, Christians and Muslims are demented, because only demented people would spend centuries massacring each other for worshiping the same god. - author

If it doesn’t matter which version of Jesus is worshiped (the Catholic, the Orthodox, the Protestant, etc.), Christians are psychopaths, because only psychopaths would spend centuries slaughtering each other for worshiping the same god. - author

If it doesn’t matter which Evangelical version of Jesus is worshiped (the Baptist, the Adventist, the Pentecostal, etc.), Evangelicals are retards, because only retards would spend time and energy trying to convert people who already worship the same god. - author

74 Besides, does the dear reader remember my most famous sentence, “I don’t want to believe, I want to know”? Exactly.

Since the start of my questioning, this is exactly what I've been seeking as well.

74 First Cause Argument doesn’t apply to specific gods, the deities of religions - The Universe must have a cause. Nothing can be the cause of itself. The Universe can’t be the cause of itself. Something outside the Universe must have caused the Universe. God is the only thing that is outside the Universe. God caused the Universe. God exists.

With just three words, any child “sends into space” the Cosmological Argument: “Who caused God?”. If God need not have a cause, an exception is made for him — and that is intellectual dishonesty. - author

75 Because we were begotten by parents who were begotten by their parents, who were begotten by their parents, who were begotten by their parents (my God, where will this end?), it seems logical to us that also the Universe must have been begotten by someone. Does a machine that produces unbreakable knives have to be unbreakable? Obviously not. Likewise, it’s not because we were begotten that the Universe also must have been begotten.

What did the authors of the Old Testament, written 2,500 years ago, and those of the New Testament, written 1,900 years ago, know about the Universe? Nothing. In light of what we today know about it, the Bible itself proves that its god doesn’t exist: - author

79 Universe is not a project of any designer, Earth itself is full of indications that it’s guided by a hand: the hand of chance.

The intriguing thought would be if nothing is real and it's all a creation of our interconnected minds, explaining why we perceive the same things. Fuck!

80 Because of the famous bite on the forbidden fruit, God cursed his creation, although he wasn’t obliged to do so.

hahahahaha

Furthermore, putting the blame on the talking snake worsens the situation of the omnipotent Yahweh, since it makes him an accomplice of Satan. In a universe created by a god of unlimited power, there is no place for competing powers, no other being has power of its own, since all power comes from the Almighty:

The book with the black cover also says that God has already won the war between good and evil, precisely because an all-powerful being has no way to lose (Lucifer must be the most idiotic creature in the Universe, because only a perfect idiot would try to defeat someone undefeatable).

hahahahahahaha

When a child asks his Christian parents “Why doesn’t God kill the Devil?”, the classic response is “Because that would make God look like a tyrant” (as if Yahweh hadn’t killed millions of people, including innocents).

hahahahaha

81 If believers have no obligation to prove that God exists, disbelievers have even less obligation to prove that God doesn’t exist.

The exciting part starts on page 81, where he explores cause and effect in reverse, much like Baruch Spinoza, to understand how religion originated.

85 “Sometimes, I want to believe, but am unable to. It’s all a total nonsense. Then I ask God: ‘Listen, my friend, if it was to unmake it, why did you make it?’” — Vinicius de Moraes

Yeah, why does God punish and kill people He created, knowing they might commit evil acts in their lifetime, let's say He knows the future? Why create us in the first place if that's the cause of his decision of putting us to hell at the end of the day.

88 I understand that the Bible also promotes good things, such as being kind and not stealing, but to me it seems mostly hypocritical and discriminatory.

90 A Christian from the outskirts dies and goes to Heaven. — Jesus, I’m looking for Herbert José de Sousa, but can’t find him. — Who? — Betinho. — What Betinho? — The founder of Citizenship Action Against Hunger, Misery and For Life. — Oh, he’s in Hell. — In Hell?! Why? — He was an atheist. Worse: a communist! — But he did exactly what the Lord told his followers to do. I was hungry, and Betinho gave me food. I was naked, and Betinho clothed me. — Who cares! He didn’ t worship me.

92 As a Chico Buarque song says, “God is a joker, he loves to prank”, because every time he tells a person to found a church, he tells him to preach a different truth. Then, from the top of a cloud and with a bucket of endless popcorn, he watches the fights over truth and laughs at churches stealing members from each other.

93 Atheism is a natural result of intellectual honesty. Those who are not satisfied with anything less than being 100% intellectually honest are atheists, because Atheism is the only stance free of incoherences and contradictions.

93 My father asked me: “If humans came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?”. Gently, I replied: “Because that is not what Evolution teaches”.

Because you just created your own version of Theory of Evolution

93 A 2019 Pew Research Center survey revealed that atheists know more about religion than Christians. Those who want to combat something and not be embarrassed need to study it. When a believer says “Atheism is a religion too”, he is embarrassing himself, since he shows he doesn’t know what Atheism is.

Just like the author!

94 it’s not impossible that God exists. However, for lack of evidence (“Character of what does not give rise to doubt” [Houaiss Dictionary], “Character of an object of knowledge that does not allow any doubt” [Aurelio Dictionary]), there are no reasons to believe in him. Since believing in things of which one has no evidence is nonsense, so is in God.

95 Opposed to the closure of temples, in a sermon bishop Gerald Glenn, founder of The New Deliverance Evangelistic Church, exclaimed: “God is larger than this dreaded virus!”. Two weeks later, Glenn was dead. The Creator of the Universe didn’t lift a finger to deliver his servant from the clutches of a virus almost a billion times smaller than a yard. Was God busy playing throwing stars into black holes?

One of the author's satiricals

93 Besides with the doctor, the bunch of Christians were furious with the girl, but not with almighty Yahweh-Jesus, who, every time she was raped, just watched. If the dear reader could, would you prevent a child from being raped? If your answer is “Yes”, congratulations! You are better than God.

109 Consequently, if he exists, God loves atheists, because only atheists don’t teach lies about God.

Atheist don't use the name of the God to take advantage of other people!

111 About 300 years ago, the Enlightenment enlightened. Regardless of whether we think this is good or bad, it burst illusion’s bubble. The Century of Light was a game changer, a watershed. It threw wide the gates of the religious prison. Until then, diverging or disbelieving was a crime. And what happened to those who diverged or disbelieved we know very well.

Thank you to the people who initiated the movement; because of them, we are not like North Korea right now.

113 I don’t believe in theos. Therefore, I’m atheos. Not believing in invisible beings is positive, since it’ s a sign of lucidity. However, those who believe in a bunch of things with no rhyme or reason can’ t stand lucidity. For this reason, believers give the word atheist a negative connotation. Yet, being an atheist implies that I’m also a naturalist, humanist and freethinker.

115 If you believe in Heaven and Hell, you believe also in miracles, angels, Devil, demons and spirits. It’s your right. Yet, don’t get irritated if I tell you that you are on the same intellectual level as someone who believes in magic, superheroes, Boogeyman, werewolf, Casper the Friendly Ghost and Shangri-La. Believing in irrational things, don’t say that believing in God is rational, unless you enjoy making a fool of yourself.

116 If God is a mystery, why bother with him? If God hides, why do we have to look for him? No one told him to hide. He hides because he wants to.

116 They don’t give answers, only justifications and rationalizations.

124 Believing in God is, therefore, a tremendous waste of time (and, if you are a church member, money).

129 Religion and Superstition are the same thing! despite all the advances in Science, there still is so much superstition. Books like the Bible and the Koran are considered divine only because they are ancient and respect for them has been passed down from generation to generation.

131 Everything has natural causes. The Universe, Nature and life are the way they are because that is how they naturally developed.

134 There’s no life after death, much less eternal. You have only this life. The day all of you do always only good, you’ll have converted this pale blue dot, which you call Earth, into a paradise.

I dedicate my life to, by any possible means, helping people liberate themselves from the religious prison. - Paulo Bitencourt

He found the meaning of his life and now he is sharing it! Read the entire book, you will find it really insightful and mind opening!

Wasting Time on God: Why I Am an Atheist

Thank you so much sir for putting the book online and making it available and free for everyone!