Why I’m an atheist

A quote I usually remember when I think of Atheism is "Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either: impotent, evil, or imaginary." Why am I an atheist? Take a good look around at the world. At the starving children, poverty, disease, war, and hatred. That's why. Because if God does exist then I really want an explanation. I used to pray to God every day. Right before I went to sleep. I didn't know the prayers, so I just talked and hoped someone would hear me. No one did. I prayed for my grades, my health, my future success. Well it looks like all three are gone. I don't believe in God because I can't believe in an all powerful being that can't make our world a better place, that does nothing while I go through hell. I don't want to believe in a God that stands by while the world is suffering. An atheist is someone who has opened his/her eyes to the harshness of reality. God is a hope that many cling onto because if there is no God there is no easy answer. What's the point of life, what happens when we die, etc. But there is no easy answer. The idea of simply not existing eventually terrifies people. The unknown has always terrified people. But atheists realize that what is scarier than the unknown is believing in something that doesn't exist.

*I hope this offends no one, it is simply my opinion on a very controversial matter.*