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I was raised catholic my whole life and was religious most of it until I started college and started studying biology and physics.

The universe is simply just too vast for any idea of a traditional God figure seen in conventional religion to hold. We are simply a species of chemical scum on a tiny tiny rock in a universe that is simply so vast it is impossible to comprehend. In other words we are incredibly insignificant which is like the antithesis of religious teachings.

Thats not to say I'm opposed to the idea of a higher power of some sort, maybe something like a higher dimensional being as there are some strange things in physics that just do not make sense, but when it comes to the idea of God in the traditional sense of modern religion i definitely reject it.

I don't necessarily hate the idea of religion as it does provide a moral compass for some people (albeit a flawed one) and it keeps people sane. However, when powers abuse and exploit religion for conflict or other unethical problems that's when I have a huge problem with religion. That and the fact that people try to use it as a way to deny tentative truths of science lol.