I was born in a very religious Hindu family and went and graduated from a catholic school so I guess I always was pretty open minded and respectful about religions.I was raised as a believe but after middle school I just couldn't be a believer. I am pretty sure, you guys must be expecting a super juicy life changing story that changed my view, if that's the case you are in for a disappointment because the only reason I became an agnostic or atheist(m not sure either) is because I just couldn't make sense of religion.
Once I grew up that all that religion is nothing but a set of rules said by a book written by us men and we ,men , have always been biased, imperfect and have exaggerated and lied throughout our lives so why would I wanna believe in something that such a flawed creature wrote.It seems everyone takes theses books too literally forgetting that these books didn't fall from heaven and even though they do have some great messages,they shouldn't be taken word for word. Not only that, a lot of things in the religion just never made sense to me. Like in Bible, apparently Mary was a virgin, in Islam a guy claimed to be prophet and everyone just believes him and so on.
The thing that bothers me the most is even if God exists and he/she has created everything in the world, how does he justify some of the things- like people born with mental disorders, babies born with diseases with no cure and that results in them dying. Religious people always justify stuff like this by saying it was their evil deeds or someones else evil deeds and the babies are paying for it. I call BS to that because isn't your god supposed to be all forgiving. Even if there is a God, I refuse to respect someone who has created such kind of evil where innocent babies and people through no fault of their own are dying. I refuse to believe in a religion who says that it's the only true religion and the rest of world has got it wrong.
Basically I refuse to believe in any of these magical stories and I will rather believe in something that can be observed and proven i.e science which explains a lot of phenomenon that are written in these books as acts of god. If any of the religious people actually read it, please understand I don't want to offend anyone and would love if you could make me understand the flaws in my arguments because I love healthy arguments and discussions.