I don't believe in God. There really isn't any reason why not. It's more like because they're is no evidence that such a thing exists, I don't just decide to think that it does.

I was bought up in a religious house, went to CoE church, got confirmed, met the Archbishop but don't ever think I was really religious. I believed in God because that's what they told me.

Not sure if I believe in a God directly or not. I have thoughts that God can't exist due to certain happenings, why they'd allow it. Religion and God's presence hold no weight on my life however, my actions aren't dictated by it, even if influenced. Whether I believe or not doesn't affect my life. Science and all it's teachings, of how the world works and exists gives answers, while religion gives illusionary answers. But science can't explain 'Why' things exist in a certain way (If they universe is expanding, then into what?)

I am not religious and have doubts over God. I am agnostic.

Indeed, humans tend to follow authorities quite easily, especially in bad times. That's why the far left and the far right have become so popular in recent years: they're usually a lot more populistic and authoritarian. The same thing happened in Europe in the 1930's (but in a more extreme way, of course).

The best thing we can do is try to think for ourselves, as rationally as possible, and never just blindly believe what others tell us.

Filix already responded pretty well to the "authoritarian regimes were atheist" argument, but I want to point two things:

1. Most revolutions lead to a lot of deaths, it's not exclusive to the French Revolution. And the French Revolution also led to a huge wave of scientific advances, that sped up technological and medical research. Let me cite some other events that killed a huge number of people (I'm using the geometric mean estimate) (for reference, the Reign of Terror killed ~26k people): 

- The European colonization of the Americas: 34 million killed. All of the countries that colonized America were strongly Christian.

- The Hundred Years' War: 2.8 million killed. Both England and France were strongly Christian.

- The Crusades: 1.7 million killed. Happened because of Christianity.

And those are just the most famous examples.

2. God, according to the Bible, killed every single human but 8. That'd have been the largest manslaughter ever. And he also created abortion, natural abortion is a thing.

"which is probably correct concerning our universe."

why?

This is the greatest thing about the Catholic Church. The division of powers. "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's". If we follow men, we are following flawed and imperfect guides. That's why we need God as an unnegotiable source of morality. Otherwise, there are no boundries or limits and things get really bad really fast.

I think that people aren't aware of the real social consequences of rejection of God.

@Flilix - you are wrong. These are all Marxist regimes, and as we know, rejection of God is the very foundation of Marxism and Marx's materialism. It's not a by-product. It's the starting point.

Because the Big Bang would have been one massive singularity. It kickstarting the universe would also mean time begins at this point. There is no time before the big bang. Time itself in essence has a start.

I don't believe in a god, but I do like to maintain some sort of Christian values. I just don't want to trap myself by always asking myself what would god think every day I make a decision, and limiting my ability to learn basic things like how fascinating evolution is. I love science.

"Free will" doesn't answer the problem of evil. Evil doesn't come only from what humans choose to do. Down syndrome is an evil, I think we can all agree on that, and it has nothing to do with what humans choose to do. It's a genetic error. The same works for any genetic disease.

No, the teleological argument is literally the same as intelligent design. They're synonymous.

And saying "god did it" doesn't actually answer anything.

You do know Catholicism for example has accepted evolution for quite a while now. Intelligent Design as Creationism is pretty localized to the US as a religious phenomena.