I was a Christian my whole life up until recently, and I had been doubting my faith for years before that.
It has been a slow process of questioning and trying to figure out what actually holds up.
What ended up shifting my view was the weight of a few things:
- The distribution of suffering looks far more like blind natural processes than something guided by a morally perfect being
- Divine hiddenness. If a loving God wants a relationship, why is belief so unclear for sincere seekers?
- The fact that religion tracks where you’re born more than anything else
- Naturalism explains the same things without adding a complex, all-powerful mind behind everything
None of these on their own disproves God. But together they made theism feel increasingly unlikely to me. So where I’ve landed is that I don’t think the case for classical theism meets the burden of proof, and naturalism explains the world better overall.
I authored a structured breakdown that goes into this in detail and engages with philosophers like Alvin Plantinga and Richard Swinburne.
If you want a more in-depth case, I’ve linked it below.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DO0PneGzHvndUiUnJFSpptptW6y7-xh6OHBQ923ukl0/edit?usp=sharing