A 1986 survey published by the American Journal of Psychiatry found that 95 percent of psychologists and the majority of psychiatrists acknowledge that they are atheist or agnostic, compared to the 90 percent of the general public who do believe in God.

If people are evil it is because God has chosen to make them evil (Rom 1:24-28) and caused them to disobey him (Rom 11:32). If they do not understand God's message it is because he has made their minds dull (Rom 11:8) and caused them to be stubborn (Rom 9:18). God prevents the Gospel from being preached in certain areas (Act 16:6-7) and he fixes long before it will happen when a person will be born and when he or she will die (Act 17:26). Those who were going to be saved were chosen by God before the beginning of time (ii Tim 1:9 Eph 1:11). If a person has faith and is thereby saved, their faith comes from God, not from any effort on their part (Eph 2:9-10). One may ask "If a person can only do what God predetermines them to do, how can God hold them responsible for their actions?" The Bible has an answer for this question.
 

But one of you will say to me: "If this is so, how can God find fault with anyone? For who can resist God's will?" But who are you, my friend, to answer God back? A clay pot does not ask the man who made it: "Why did you make me like this?" After all, the man who makes the pot has the right to use the clay as he wishes, and to make two pots from one lump of clay, one for special occasions and one for ordinary use. And the same is true of what God has done (Rom 9:19-22).

So apparently in Christianity a person's life and destiny are due purely to the whim of God and as mere humans we have no right to complain about what God has decided for us. The idea that we are all predetermined is quite consistent with the idea of an all knowing God but it makes nonsense of the concept of making an effort to do good or avoid evil.

The Problem of Evil Perhaps the most potent argument against the existence of an all powerful, all loving God is the undeniable fact that there is so much pain and suffering in the world. If there is really a God of love who has unlimited power, why doesn't he put an end to all evil? Christians try to answer this question in several ways.

Firstly, they will say that evil is caused by man not God and that if only man would follow God's commandments there would be no pain, evil or suffering. However, while it is true that evils such as war, rape, murder and exploitation can be blamed on humans, they can hardly be blamed for the millions who die each year in earthquakes, floods, epidemics and accidents, all of which are natural; events. In fact, according to the Bible, the germs that cause hideous diseases like TB, polio, cholera, leprosy etc. and all the misery, deformity and suffering to which they give rise, were created by God before he created man (Gen. 1:11-12).

Another way Christians will try to explain away evil is to say that it is God's punishment for those who do not follow his commandments. However this implies that terrible things happen only to bad people, which is certainly not true. We often hear of painful sicknesses or disasters befalling good people including good Christians, and likewise we often hear of really bad people who seem to have nothing but good fortune and success. So it cannot be said that suffering and evil are God's way of punishing sinners.

Next, Christians will say that God allows evil to exist in the world because he wants to give us the freedom to choose good over evil and thereby earn salvation. Evil, they will say, exists to test us. At first this seems to be a good explanation. If a man sees someone being beaten up by a bully he has a choice between turning away (doing wrong) or deciding to help the victim (doing right). If he decides to help then he has been tested and found good. However, as we have seen before, an all knowing God must already know what choices a person will make so what is the point of testing us? Also, even if suffering and evil exist in the world to test us, couldn't an all loving God think of a less cruel and less painful way to do this? It seems unloving and unfair to allow pain to be inflicted on one person so that another person can have the opportunity to choose between good and evil.

Some Christians will try to free God from responsibility for evil by saying that it is not created by God but by the Devil. This may be true but again if God is so loving why doesn't he simply prevent the Devil from doing this? In any case, who created the Devil in the first place? Surely it was God.

By this stage the Christian will start to get a bit desperate, shifting the argument from logic to pragmatism. He will say that even though there is suffering in the world we can use it as an opportunity to develop courage and patience. This is undoubtedly true but it still does not explain why an all loving God allows babies to die of cancer, innocent bystanders to be killed in accidents, and leprosy victims to suffer deformity and pain. In fact the existence of so much unnecessary pain, misery and evil in the world is very strong evidence that there is no all loving all powerful God.

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Humans are basically 'good' and it is in the nature of all animals to work towards the progress and betterment of their own species; but that natural quality in humans due to religion has been diverted and contaminated. And that, is the root of things such as crime and other deeds against fellow human beings. There is no 'evil' except that which humans have created for themselves. With such concepts within our minds, we take them with us to bed and dream upon them until they become 'real' to us.

The shame of this is that we are totally unaware of all of this and that we ignorantly subject our own children and their progeny to this, producing a never ending cycle which is ever increasing in severity. Children are being born into a society that has been prefabricated to produce more and more persons who exist in a state of hypnotic trance for most of their lives. What a waste and a long term danger to humanity itself. That is why we say that those who created Christianity committed the greatest of all crimes against humanity.

Historically, religion has been the cause of countless wars, horrendous torture, and murder, and today, these heinous acts still take place in other countries. While Americans no longer fear such religious brutality, there are many other concerns with religion. Dr. Eli S. Chesen says, "Rigid, confined, and stereotyped religious thinking patterns can be directly contributory to emotional instability. Here it takes the form of a health hazard in a psychiatric sense". The repression of feelings, such as anger, pride, and pleasure, and the repression of natural desires, such as sex, or the guilt of having these feelings or desires, may lead to depression, sexual disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, or psychosis. Worse yet, it can lead to child molesting, rape, murder, and other violent acts.