My attitude stems from neither ignorance nor prejudice.

I grew up with Christianity. My mother exemplified all the best parts of the religion - compassion, humility, forgiveness. I was fairly old before I was exposed to the wider world of Christianity beyond my mother's very progressive church.

I'm a student of history. Christianity throughout history has, like most religions, been one bloody war after another.

In America right now a majority of Christians revere the malicious hateful lying monster Donald Trump, and ministers regularly scream hatred from the pulpit.

Your argument is so old, it has a name - No True Scotsman.

Tell me this - if an all-powerful God existed, why would He allow his religion to be perverted to such an extreme as it is in the United States?

And why the coy hide-and-seek game? Most humans do not believe in the Christian God. An omnipotent being could at least make it clear He existed, to prevent all those people from worshipping other religions and suffering the eternal consequences.

And yet we see things like the endless contradictions in the Bible. Why are those there if this is a divine book?

Prayer is supposed to be effective. This means that God is a judge who favors his friends, and people who lavish fulsome praise on Him. How is this just? Would we accept a human judge who favored his friends and could be flattered into giving a favorable decision?

And finally, we come to Hell. How can anyone believe in a religion of compassion, when your God of Love takes most of humanity after death, and tortures them for eternity with infinite pain?

Christianity is condemned by its own words and actions. I came to consider it false, not because of ignorance and prejudice, but through learning and open-mindedness.

Thanks for writing.