On the flip side, there's war and sorrow, which somehow I doubt a benevolent creator would allow. That's the gist of the problem of evil.

Imagine if you were God, would you create a world full of evil and inequality? Even genetically, one could have allowed for people to at least be on a much more equal footing: equal fitness), essentially. I suppose it may be argued that this would limit the beauty of life in diversity, but I'd counter that in diversity there is so much inequality that it is somewhat evil. Why allow terrible genetic disorders or even mental disorders when an omnipotent, omnibenevolent being could simply will them away? I see no reason not to, unless one contends that God works in mysterious ways. That, then, brings its own problems. If God works in mysterious ways, and God desires our understanding, how can we understand him? We cannot.

If we can't even come to agreement on a definition of God, then it follows that perhaps God cannot even create his own beings to have the capacity to understand him, and thus believe in him. However, if we can all agree that God is omnibenevolent, omniscient, omnipotent, and desires our love and understanding, then there exists very good reason that he does not exist, for the aforementioned reasons. If God lacks any one of the first three traits, he is not God.

Maybe I'm just a 'fundamentalist atheist', but I think it can be shown through logic that a deity under those conditions cannot exist. Maybe this also stems from my own battles with depression, and my definition of myself as unfit biologically, but I still think that we can look outside ourselves, and, through reason, determine that such a God does not exist.

If all we have is faith, then I ask, why did God gift us reason? I feel as if reason is our most defining characteristic as humans. If we abandon that in the face of the veil of faith, then what are we if not empty bodies devoid of wisdom? Maybe one could argue that faith exists, in a way, even in the sciences. How many of us take it that gravity exists, without rigorously testing it? I know we can all pick up an object and drop it, but who's to say it won't fly away at the millionth drop, or trillionth? I contend that reason is why it won't. We have no experience that suggests that the object will magically do something other than drop. That experience is all we have, and gravity has been observed for generations as acting the same way.

I'm not a great writer, and it's entirely possible I'm not getting my ideas across coherently without sounding like a fool, but this is where I stand. I don't believe in God, and I think there's reasonable logic to support that belief. Just because an idea may be difficult to prove, or is shrouded in doubt, does not mean there is no right or wrong answer.