Why should I?
I stopped believing in God because I realized that I never had a good reason to believe in the first place. I believed because everyone else did. But then I started seriously studying religion. I read the bible, the koran, the vedas. I studied buddhism, hinduism and taosism. None of them made sense.
Seriously, have you ever read the bible? Just read Genesis through Leviticus. If that god exists then I want no part of him. But maybe the god in the bible isn’t the real god? So who is? Would a god really allow people to fight over the right way to worship him? He could clear it up pretty easily and save a lot of lives. That wouldn’t violate free will, it would simply be giving mankind accurate information.
If there is a god, which book does he want you to read? The bible? The koran? How could you choose one over the other. Especially when both of them contains stories that are adopted from older mythologies. There is as much evidence to support the existence of Zeus as there is to support Yehova or Allah.
Without religion in the world, there would be one less thing to fight about. The world could always use one less thing to fight over. Religion does no good for the world, yet the negatives are easy to see.
