What was the most compelling evidence?

Never saw one yet.

When one is wanting evidence, how can they disprove the fact that there were 500 witnesses to the fact that Jesus rose from the grave after His crucifixion. Men don't die for nothing. Christians who knew of Jesus were burned at stakes, gored by bulls in Rome's arenas, eaten by lions just because they refused to denounce Jesus. Christians are being killed today in Islamic countries just for spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The most compelling evidence for God is the prophesies written in the Holy Bible that have come true.

Prophesied 2000 years before it happened, Isaiah said God would regather His people and that they would become a nation in one day. The Jewish people regathered to Israel swiftly after WWII and on May 14, 1948 in one day the UN made Israel a nation once again. Also prophesied was they would speak their original language of Hebrew. All returning Jews must learn the Hebrew language because it is the national language of Israel.

Primarily, I was born int o a Christian family and was brought up to believe in God, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. As the years went by, I learned that the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus were white lies made up to keep us kids happy.

Around about the same time, I began to question how could many children in our school class be brown, black and yellow, if all of us were descended from Adam and Eve. And then, I began to question how could any one, single, solitary Male Entity "Create" everything just by saying "Let there be ..."

Now, the first thing that made me doubt the existence of God was [a] how could such an Entity have come into Existence if everything else had to be "Created"?

Evidently, if the premise that everything had to be "Created" were true, then, the very next question would be "Then, who created God?"

[b] Before I digress, the next thing that made me doubt the existence of God was how could such an Entity be Male, and how did they [the authors of the God Myth] know that He was Male?

And, I began to question the entire Genesis.

Now that is how it all began. And then, I began to test the assumption that God Exists. Preliminarily, I began to question our Parish Priest and, while he was very patient and forbearing in his answers, he was unable to give me any proof whatsoever that there was, indeed, such a thing as the Sky Daddy called God. I then searched all the other "Religions" that I could find and found that Judaism, Christianity and Islam all shared the same Primary Flaw - that God "Created" everything and Adam and Eve were the progenitors of all Mankind.

The Greek and Roman Pantheon were evidently Tales made up for children and it was astonishing how adults could ever have subscribed to them. The Egyptian Pantheon proved to be nothing more than the others.

Then, after quickly going through the Druidic Mythology, the Norse Pantheon and other such Mythologies, all of which were nothing more than a bunch of Fairy Tales, I got to the Oriental Philosophies of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism etc. Among them, I found Shinto and Sikhism to be ones to be very quickly discarded because the Shinto Pantheon was like all others and Sikhism was an attempt to build a bridge between Hinduism and Islam and was a totally confused set of concepts, though there was something good to be also found there.

While Sanathana Dharma, aka Hinduism, and Buddhism had gone through a lot of metamorphosis to reach their present state of confused thinking, and Jainism was an extreme belief of non-violence, I found Sanathana Dharma's original concepts more to my liking.

Sanathana Dharma is, basically, Qualified Atheism. It doesn't presume to know how the World came into existence and doesn't presume to know the End of Days. Nor does it have any Heaven or Hell. These concepts that you see there now were "assimilated" from Judaism like the Hindu Pantheon was "assimilated" from the Greek.

Anyways, not to digress, the beginning of my stepping in Atheism was from here.

Evidently, no single Entity could have "Created" everything and all the different species that we see are adapted to a special need of a special environment. Whatever Forces set off the chain of events to make all this was obviously genderless. All living things evidently possess, for lack of a better word, the Eternal Soul called the Atman and the sum total of the Souls having a collective Universal Consciousness called the Parama Atman is much more like than that there was a Male Entity that lives in the Skies that created everything by merely saying Let there be ...."

Ergo, I concluded that there is nothing like God and since the Parama Atman is yet to be demonstrated and proved, I would give that the benefit of doubt.

I'm sorry it was so long, but, I thought you would to see the journey that brought me to conclude, beyond any shade of valid doubt, that God doesn't exist.

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Unfortunately our cultural prejudices lead us to believe the existence of god is a default fact, that requires evidence to disprove. Those of us who have bothered to remove the scales from our eyes and escaped the matrix, can see that in reality, the default fact is: nothing exists until it is proven. And there has never been any proof for god(s).

None, it was the lack of evidence for god that brought me to that conclusion

God falls into the "non existent until proven otherwise" category for me, right next to unicorns and flying donkeys.

The lack of scientific knowledge of the world in the bible and most holy books. You would think a gods book would be ahead of its time. But no. It fit that violent era of ancient men like a glove. No knowledge of space or even the basic biology of humans.

The God "problem" I guess you could call it, isn't that there's evidence to disprove him-it's that there is no verifiable evidence to PROVE him. If we believe everything based on things we can't disprove, giants in the Andromeda Galaxy are real. Nobody can prove they aren't, right?

There wasn't any evidence in favour of any of the gods existence, I therefore had no choice but to conclude that no god/s exist.

@ left behind - - I find your answer strange, could you elaborate as to how 'god revealing himself' to you brought you to the conclusion that he doesn't exist?

You don't get it, do you?

There is an abject absence of evidence for the existence of your imaginary friend. I need no evidence to convince me there isn't one.

the most compelling evidence is the complete LACK of evidence

I was 9-years-old and the make-believe stories in the Bible convinced me the whole thing was just made up. I was astounded some adults actually took it all seriously. Stupid adults!