@Christianity & Islam.

	I am asserting that your god (but not necessarily all gods) cannot logically exist in terms of our understanding of the universe and that whether or not you still believe in it, your god has no place in science, education, or lawmaking; and the moral implications of indoctrinating children into your religion should be heavily considered.  If you are a Christian or Muslim and you agree with everything I just asserted then this video is not addressed to you because you don't fall under my operational definition of what a Christian/Muslim believes.

	As theists who accept the dogma of your religion, you hold a belief in a personal god, one who loves you and cares for you, one who knows you.  Your god is all powerful, all knowing, and loves all people.  He also wants people to believe in him.  I will now propose arguments for why this cannot be the case.

	If your god is all powerful and all loving then he cannot exist in a flawed world such as the one we live in.  If he has the power to change it (which an all powerful god would by definition) then he would, because he also has the benevolence to.  We can see clearly by observing the flawed state of the universe that this god cannot exist.  I am going to lapse into moral absolutism here for a bit and say that anything that promotes human longevity and quality of life is fundamentally good, and that anything that reduces these is bad.  These principles are based on the somewhat hedonistic idea that pleasure, happiness, life, and love are good things, and that suffering, pain, and usually death are bad things.  If you disagree with these ideas then I would categorize you as someone who does not agree with basic humanistic principles and someone worthy of scorn; because these respectively increase and decrease the net happiness in the universe.  By not doing anything in the face of suffering, imperfection, pain, and agony your god is either doesn't exist, is not all powerful, or is not all good.  Period.

	Because your god cannot exist according to the way we as Americans view the universe: something where life, love, and happiness should be valued; I submit to you that even if you believe in this god, your belief and that of others in similar deities cannot have an effect on lawmaking, education, or science.  Your belief to this god should still be respected, maybe not from an intellectual or moral standpoint, but simply because it's your prerogative to think what you want; but it certainly should not receive representation among fields where rational points of view are necessary.

	You might argue something like “God works in mysterious ways” and assert that we cannot understand god's ways of thinking or his “love”, to which any sensible person would reply that you can't attribute qualities to something that you literally just claimed to not understand.  You can't have it both ways silly, either you understand god and as I asserted earlier he's an asshat, or you have to take a more deistic stance and say that god is incomprehensible and doesn't really interact with the world and we can't understand him.  It's not logical to attribute any qualities to something you're literally admitting that you don't understand, let alone create legal policy and enforce outdated discriminatory social views based on these already ludicrous teachings.

	Finally, the most controversial part of my thesis is that the moral implications of indoctrinating children through VBS and sunday school programs and forced worship should be heavily considered.  Many people view this as a way for parents to ensure their children have a pathway to eternal life or something.  Shouldn't that be a consideration?  Isn't it authoritarian to say that you can't teach your child X?  Yeah, maybe it is.  That's a good point.  Unless something is a serious issue I shouldn't be allowed to tell you how to teach your kids, that's really interfering in your life.  The only reasons I can think of to justify something like that is if you were doing something unfit for a parent to do to their child, but as I'll explain, Christians really need to realize that the doctrine of hell is basically psychological torture and a breach of the trust vested in a parent by all children.

	There are things a child learns really early on, things that a child really has to do in order to survive, grow and function in this world.  Basic survival lessons like how to eat food put in front of you, how to locomote, to trust your parents (among other authority figures) so that you may learn other important skills, and that HOT=BAD.  Often the first memory a child has once he's grown is of touching something hot and having it hurt like a bitch.  We really only need one experience with a stove to learn forever that that isn't something you wanna touch when it's glowing red.  As humans one of our worst fears is of fire; and I genuinely think that teaching a kid that they will LITERALLY BURN FOREVER is psychological torture.  There are 2 MASSIVE words there that are of serious consequence: BURN and FOREVER.  Burning is scary as hell, literally.  Like I mean that's what hell is to a lot of people, right?  And the concept of forever to someone only a year or so old is astronomical.  They've lived roughly 1% of their mortal life and telling them that something infinitely longer than that comprised of eternal suffering is in store for them if they don't believe X is huge.  That enough I'd say accounts for 75% of the population of the church: people that are damn scared of hell and the possibility of BURNING FOREVER.  Most people don't really consider the alternatives and the reasons why hell or jahannam is kind of a nonsensical idea the way people like me do.  I mean shit dude, I believed it for 7 years and I'm like top 1% of the population at everything.  You need to do a lot of hours of research and thinking in order to balance out those 8 seconds of being told that you'll burn forever to come to the same conclusions that people like me have and plenty of people are too scared to even start.

	I'd like to close by saying that what you may think is the loving message of a benevolent creator is to other people something that is irrational and downright scary simply because the massive herds of you folk that believe in it.  But you should know that the days of your religion seem to be numbered.  Only 85% of the general population believes in the idea of a personal god and that number is dropping like my soul as it plunges into damnation okay.  Among college graduates it's under 60%, and among elite scientists and engineers it's under 10%.  The correlation there should show you that the more you understand about the universe the more you realize that the ideas behind religion are not just incorrect, but can be dangerous.  Yeah I understand that correlation doesn't imply causation, I aced AP statistics, but either God makes you Dumb, dumb makes you God, or there's some complicating factor biasing the data.  I can tell you that all three of those are factors.  But next time you preach your message of centuries old misogyny and tradition to someone, realize that they might not be as receptive as they were a few years back.  People are really starting to come to their senses I think and it's only going to get better from here.