Is it normal my argument for being an atheist?
If God exists, why does he let innocent people be born with a disability or suffer in other ways? Why should someone like me - with a caring family, friends, a good career, nice car, and internet access - have all these things, when there are people who - through no fault of their own, or for lack of opportunity - have practically nothing? What makes my prayers more important than theirs? What makes my life more precious than theirs? All over the world, there is widespread inequality and injustice that goes virtually unchecked and unpunished. No divine entity that is worthy of worship and respect would let something like this continue. I don't want to put my prayers in a God who puts me above others, simply for the luck of the circumstances of my birth. So much of who we eventually become is rooted in who our parents are and what environment we are born into, whether we are born with a gift or a disability, or into money or into poverty. So much of what our life is like is determined when we first come into this world, and that is an utterly unfair world. A God who doesn't love all his children equally is not a God who I want to love.