Zorg!

The good Lord has always provided us with many blessings… Such blessings are:

Vilification of homosexuality, brings discrimination, parents disowning their children, murder, and suicide

Women treated like second class citizens, or even slaves based on religious teachings

Children growing up to hate and fear science and scientists, because science disproves their parents' religion - leading to appalling scientific illiteracy

Tens of thousands tortured and killed as witches, along with cats, leaving rats to spread black plague

People bothered and sometimes woken up by door-to-door religion salespeople

People dying because they believe their faith makes them immune to poison, or other lethal aspects of reality, and letting their children die - because their religion forbids accepting medical help

Psychological and physiological conditions blamed on demons, preventing believers from seeking medical care

Women being forced to have unwanted children they resent, because religious organizations have gotten laws passed making abortion illegal

Censorship (often destructive) of speech, art, books, music, poetry, songs and if possible, thought.

The suppression of rational, critical thought

Children spending the period of their lives when the brain is most receptive to learning new information reading and memorizing religious texts.

Environmental issues ignored because of beliefs that God will magically fix everything.

Wives told they will be tortured forever if they leave their abusive husbands.

Holy wars - followers of different faiths killing each other in the name of their (loving and merciful) gods

Children traumatized by vivid stories of eternal burning and torture to ensure that they'll be too frightened to even question religion.

Abuse of power, authority and trust by religious leaders (for financial gain or sexual abuse of followers and even children) - but hey, atheists are the immoral ones.

People accepting visual and auditory hallucinations unquestioningly as divine, sometimes with fatal results

Missionaries destroying/converting smaller, "heathen" religions and cultures

Hardship compounded by the guilt required to reconcile the idea of a fair god with reality ("why is God punishing me? What have I done wrong? Don't I have enough faith?")

Human achievements, from skillful surgery to emergency landings - attributed to gods instead of to the people actually responsible

Billions spent to build/maintain churches.

Grief and horror caused by the belief that dead friends and family members are tortured for disbelief

Opposition to scientific progress

The attempted genocide of followers of a particular faith (e.g. the Jewish Holocaust)

The Christian god demands that you believe in him or you'll go to hell. If he was real, I don't think supposedly "loving" gods should have to resort to threats of violence. It's just not becoming.

Remember we are educated Atheists, ask us about your God and we'll tell you why he doesn't exist.