No arrogant theists, and especially some of my school teachers made me an Atheist.
(Including one who tried to teach his pupils that animals had no feelings or emotions, only mechanical behaviour which just seemed to replicate human emotion, and that therefore it was wrong to feel empathy for them. Which made me realize that:- One, if you go down the religious route you will end up accepting any rubbish to make it fit your theology. And. Two, being a complete psychopath is a big help in a teaching career.)

The Christian Bible made it so I did not accept that the Christian God exists. As for the other countless gods I have reject too. It was a long process for me to become an atheist. World religion classes also helped. I can't say it was only one thing, but loads of different reasons.

It didnt make me an atheist wholly and directly but it strengthened my opinions along the way. Definitely a major contributing factor, along with being abandoned by the god I thought I believed in. I was left with no other choice but to stay angry at god or realize it doesnt exist. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity, even if it's your own.

It didn't hurt, that's for sure!

nope. first of all, most people here mean the christian bible when they say bible, and i was never a christian, but as a secular jew, bible-reading just wasn't on my agenda. some deliberate thinking and consideration brought me to the realization that there were no gods.

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Not really but I can see how it would

Not really. It was mostly the hypocrisy of the congregation. When I was around 14 I realized my own hypocrisy. I didnt actually believe the bullshit. So I stopped going.

i don't think it had anything to do with it.

I always was an Atheist, even before reading the bible.

No Catholicism did

It helped, it definitely helped

By the time I was 15, I had read the Bible from cover to cover 3 times. Each time I read it, it became more clear that it became more and more apparent that it certainly was not a book of truth.

No - as a former Catholic, we never read it or paid any attention to it. It was all about what Mott the Poople had to say about things. I think it was JP 2 at the time.

It does seem ironic that the very tool used to enslave the masses is the source of freedom for so many that actually engage in it.

No! The fact that people invented god in their own image, if there was a god what are the chances of "it" looking like us? An all knowing deity would be able to see the mess we were likely to make of things and not give us the power or the tools to do so.

It was a combination of the buybull, the clergy and the so-called christians. I saw them every day professing to love everyone yet marginalizing the most vulnerable of our society.

No! Obviously, God made me an atheist.

But, seriously, Gawdawful's alleged actions in the Bible did start me on the path.
Everyone talked about all the humans that died in Noah's flood because they were wicked...and wouldn't tell me why all the innocent animals had to drown horrids deaths too.
No one would tell me why Gawdawful demanded the sacrifice of so many animals to appease his lust for death.
No one would tell me why there were talking snakes and donkeys...but animals lives didn't matter.

By the time I was 10-12, I was calling "God" by my name for him "Gawdawful" because, damn, he's an asshole and I tried to point out to people what a monster he was and no one would listen....

So, yeah, the horrendous stories of murder, death, hate, and destruction in the Bible -- all perpetrated by Gawdawful -- definitely is the basis for my complete dismissal of his existence.

It started with the misogyny, homophobia, genocide and slavery...but the final nail, so to speak, for me, was the complete and utter lack of any evidence whatsoever for the existence of any god.

The Bible didn't make me an atheist but helps a lot!!! Too many contractions, selfish , incest, murders etc. Insane book. That's crazy think that many people based their lives on this.

Between what is written, and what the people that say they believe it to be the word of God do in life... They don't match up. Or they do. It depends on what verse you want to read. But basically by their own actions, they don't really believe it either, or they would be really really good people. And they're not!!! So it's not just the book that is full of contradictions and horrific treatment of humanity. It's the the people that blindly perpetuate it and are really bad examples of humanity...wait, do you see a correlation? Maybe they do get it, and being a horrible person is like being god!?

Indirectly, yes. The Bible, as understood by my particular sect, made various predictions of cause and effect, and advanced various explanations about why things were as they were; these explanations and predictions were usually (and, often, spectacularly) wrong when compared to lived experience. So I found a working epistemology to replace my broken one.

Doing that enabled me to read the Bible in a more critical and rational way, which confirmed that it was bunk.

Yup. One of the quickest routes to being an atheist is actually reading the Bible.

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No, but the racism supported by bible verses sure did. I grew up in Mississippi.

Contradictions and errors, but I was to young to read it when my disbelief began. I was pretty skeptical after less than a year of Sunday school.

The lies how religious people treated others and each other, the world full of crime hate and con artists using religion to steal from the poor. Giving the false hope. Then someone gave me a bible and cemented my atheism even deeper in my mind. I compiled a list of over 50 terrible and misleading passages.