I ask 4 premises. 1. God is benevolent. 2. God is Ominpotent. 3. God is Omniscient. 4. There is evil in the world. A rational man would realize that all of these cannot exist at the same time. One must be wrong. You cannot have an all-seeing, all powerful god, that loves you, but allows evil to happen. Either he does not see the evil done to you, he cannot stop the evil done to you, that he is not good, and so does not care about you. As one knows, there is evil in the world, immorality, murder. An all seeing, all powerful, benevolent god cannot exist.
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-A later thought on that god thing above. If you check your premises, you must realize that god's definition of good can be different than yours, as a parents definition of good is different that their childs.
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Another argument, one that I did not create, against god-It is impossible for god to create a stone that is immovable by him. He must be able to move it, or he is not omnipotent. He must be able to create it, or he is not omnipotent. God cannot be omnipotent.
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Counter Argument, one that I essentially did not make up, but rather put in my own response- Yes, but can god make a perfectly circular rectangle? No. Why? Because it is a contradiction in terms, as having something god cannot do is a contradiction in terms.
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