I've read the bible. That's what made me an atheist. The OT reads like a horror story; God commanding his people to wage perpetual war, stone people to death for collecting firewood on the sabbath, rape, plunder, and smash babies' heads against rocks. Go ahead and tell me that I'm taking it out of context.
The NT tells contradictory stories about a man/god for whom their is no verifiable contemporary evidence. Try reading David Fitzgerald's "Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All".
Here's a question for you: if you knew that your neighbor was about to rape, torture and kill a young child, wouldn't you stop him? God knows, God has the ability to stop him but chooses not to. Why is that?