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A lot of people, especially in the Eastern areas of the world, do not believe in god. While they may have been exposed to the tenets of Buddhism or local superstition, they have managed to avoid being indoctrinated into Western theology, mainly due to their birthplace. While there are many reasons not to believe in god, people don't need reasons by default - we're all born without knowledge of god-centric myths. Disbelief is the default.

The following list, then, is directed at those who have been convinced, coerced, or implored to believe in the god of Christianity, Islam, or Judaism. Here are the top eight reasons to say, "I'm dreadfully sorry, sir or ma'am, but I do not accept your monotheistic superstition."

1) The Bible

While used as Christianity's #1 reason to believe in god, the Bible is an awful book, full of torture, genocide, sexism, racism, incest and slavery, all justified by the jealous, wrathful god said to be "the loving source of all that is good and moral and right." The only people likely to disagree with this are the preachers, who have a financial interest in convincing their flocks otherwise, and those comprising the flock itself, who are listening to the preachers instead of reading the Bible for themselves.

The silly rules and creepy stories in the Bible show that it makes a terrible moral guide. In the Bible, Lot offers his daughters up to be raped in place of his guests, then his daughters later get him drunk and take advantage of him; it's not permissible for men to masturbate, enjoy one another sexually, eat shellfish, or wear more than one kind of fabric at once; disobedient children should be stoned to death along with those who work on the sabbath; raping a woman isn't wrong because it harms the woman, but because rape violates the property of another man; the list goes on and on.

The Bible isn't only a moral disaster, it lies about the natural world, disagrees with itself, and makes logical errors. The Bible implies that the earth is flat, says a man can live inside the belly of another animal for several days, and suggests that two specimens of every species on the planet could somehow, possibly, amazingly fit inside a giant boat. There are 725 species of butterfly in North America alone - that's only a small portion of what Noah had to gather.

The Bible contains multiple versions of the creation story, as well as multiple versions of Jesus' death. Revelations, the story of the end of the world, makes less sense than the writings of

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