Why I don't believe in God pt. 1

As with every supernatural belief I used to hold, my reason for ceasing to believe in god is simple; every reason I used to have to believe in god has been demonstrated to me to be an inadequate basis for the beliefs I had.

As many secularists will point out; the first thing you have to do when examining whether a god is real is defining it. Many believers hate this, I know I did, but you can't justify belief in something if you're not willing to make statements about it. I'll give you a series of the types of gods I believed in and the basic arguments that led me away from those beliefs.

Christian God;
I was brought up to believe in the christian god, Jesus, the flood etc. It wasn't a fundamentalist upbringing, it was more like some sort of modern apologetic belief. When I was a child I had already deduced that the flood couldn't have actually happened, based simply on the usual facts that there would be signs of it across the entire world and that two of every animal could not survive together on a boat for 40 days. Probably out of tolerance, my parents never tried to force me into a belief that my religion was right and all others were wrong, they taught me to respect others' beliefs. But the basic ideas that brought me out of christianity were the ideas that I knew it wasn't literally true and that I could not rationalize a belief in christianity any more than any other given religion.

Side note- Jesus
During grade school I learned about tall tales. Pecos Bill, etc. I learned how they were often based on actual people and events, but they were embellished as time went on as people exaggerated the details. My teachers never talked about the bible, but when you hear that someone is walking on water and turning water to wine that's actually significantly less impressive than lassoing a tornado. Frankly, I'm surprised that Jesus hasn't been said to do much more grandiose acts. But anyone who has played the game telephone or been present both at an event and at the retelling of it knows that any story repeated verbally is a story changed. If you think that people could pass down the story of anything accurately for over a generation then you're just not paying attention.

(I'll be posting this in multiple entries to make it more readable)