I haven't always been atheist; however, before then I've always had my doubts. I went to a church with my family on Saturdays back when I lived in Wisconsin...but we weren't one of those religious families. In fact, I wouldn't consider my family religious; but they aren't atheist either.

After I moved to another state, and therefore stopped going to a church completely, my doubts intensified. I realized how it just couldn't be possible that a god existed. If he did, why couldn't he cure people of cancer, and help all those starving children and their families in Africa etc? Also a lot of the things in the Bible started to sound even MORE ridiculous to me. Like Noah's Ark for example. (I also was always confused about Adam & Eve; I knew about cavemen/pre-historic humans; did Adam and Eve come before or after?? I wondered. And what about the dinosaurs? It eventually become more and more ridiculous.)

My "conversion" to an atheist was final when I started going on the internet more. Of course, school's science classes also helped.

I am now an atheist and glad to be one. I just wish I could bring my family about the same way, especially my younger brother. Every time I try to talk about it they immediately get annoyed, as if criticizing religion and expressing my opinions is a bad thing. I guess I'm lucky that they still aren't very religious, otherwise I might have gotten kicked out or something if they were one of those people who would kick their child out because they don't believe in a god.

I'm really worried about my little brother becoming brainwashed. He's 14 and does like science, but I can't bring him to realize how ridiculous and evil religion is, especially since as I said before - he always get annoyed whenever I express my opinions -_-