[What I thought were] Nails in the coffin for Christianity [and probably most theology, I haven't studied most of them or what they say]

I know apologists will always just make up whatever rule or abandon their morals to make the state of the world fit what they already believe to be true (i.e. what the bible tells them, ^(i.e. their own personal interpretation of what they think the bible is telling them...))

But when I was coming out of Christianity, so many things occurred to me that I just couldn't understand how people could (or chose not to) recognize and still think their beliefs made sense.

• Evolution(a). We know, like we knooow, all of humanity did not descend from one man and one woman (that woman of course being a byproduct of the man and of course being gullible enough to fall for the serpent's trick. Religion hates women.) One of the major cruxes of the entire belief system is discounted immediately if you understand evolution.

  • Evolution(b). Understanding evolution should also inform you that religion in general is a man made concept. Religion appears extremely late in the history of life because it is a product of human cognition and culture and them trying to explain what was at the time unknown. The single celled organisms in the primordial soup were not worshipping a god.

• WTF is a "soul"? I'll never forget, I was watching an episode of Bleach, and Ulquiorra was giving that "what is a heart" speech. "Tell me, what is a heart? If I tore a hole in your chest, would I see it? If I split open your skull, would it be there? And this was part of what started me on my path of deconversion. I couldn't get this idea of out my head about "where is my soul?" I've seen autopsies, it's not in my brain, it's not in my heart, it's not in my stomach, it's not in my ass. Do only humans have them? Is that why dogs don't go to heaven? Or is that a made up rule? And how could you know animals don't have them?

  • I watch a lot of anime, so obviously I have a general idea of what people mean when they say "soul." But anime is fantasy, there have been thousands of different depictions of a soul. But Christians are telling me this is a real tangible thing is going to burn forever. Were is it? What does it look like? How does it manifest? How can it feel pain if I'm dead? If you can't even point to this part of me that you tell me is going to suffer eternally, why should I be concerned?

• This is not your god...no, like literally. Yahweh is incredibly geographically specific. Jesus never came to America. Moses wasn't wandering around Colorado. Nobody in Genesis knows that Brazil exists. The religion developed among people living in the ancient Near East. Their god chooses their people. This "sacred land" is their land. And yet I'm supposed to believe this isn't one particular civilization's mythology that eventually became universalized. This is the creator of the entire universe.

  • Oh gosh golly, you mean to tell me that the collection of religious texts written by people in and around the ancient Near East concludes that their tiny corner of the planet is cosmically important? Their people are chosen? Their city is holy? Their history is the history the creator of everything apparently wanted humanity to know? What an incredible coincidence.