why do people not believe in God just because evil people hurt them?..?

DO YOU believe that people should be persecuted because of their religion? Probably not—at least not as long as they do not interfere with the rights of others. Yet, religious persecution has a long history and still exists. For example, many of Jehovah's Witnesses in Europe and other parts of the world were frequently robbed of their rights and cruelly mistreated throughout the 20th century.

During that time, Jehovah's Witnesses suffered brutal, systematic, and prolonged persecution under both of the major totalitarian regimes in Europe. What does their experience teach us about religious persecution? And what can we learn from the way they reacted to suffering?

"No Part of the World"

Jehovah's Witnesses strive to be law-abiding, peaceful, and morally upright people. They do not oppose governments or seek confrontations with them, nor do they provoke persecution because they want to be martyrs. These Christians are politically neutral. This is in harmony with Jesus' words: "[My followers] are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world." (John 17:16) Most governments acknowledge the Witnesses' neutral stand. But totalitarian rulers have little respect for the Biblical requirement that Christians should be no part of the world.

The Kusserow family were deprived of their freedom because they would not compromise their faith

"Totalitarian regimes do not restrict their activities to politics. They demand the entire person."

Dr. Clemens Vollnhals

The reason for this was explained during a conference at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in November 2000. The conference had the theme "Repression and Self-Assertion: Jehovah's Witnesses Under the National Socialist and Communist Dictatorships." Dr. Clemens Vollnhals of the Hannah-Arendt-Institute for Research Into Totalitarianism observed: "Totalitarian regimes do not restrict their activities to politics. They demand the entire person."

True Christians cannot surrender their "entire person" to a human government, since they have vowed absolute allegiance to Jehovah God alone. Witnesses living under totalitarian dictatorships have found that the demands of the State and the requirements of their faith are sometimes at odds. What have they done in the face of such conflicts? Historically, Jehovah's Witnesses have applied in their lives the principle expressed by the disciples of Jesus Christ: "We must obey God as ruler rather than men."—Acts 5:29.

Johannes Harms was executed in a Nazi prison for his beliefs

Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany suffered brutal and prolonged persecution under both of the 20th-century totalitarian regimes

Thousands of Witnesses kept loyal to their faith and stayed neutral in political affairs, despite even the cruelest persecution. How could they endure? From where did they get the strength to do so? Let them answer for themselves. And let us see what everyone, Witnesses and non-Witnesses, can learn from their experiences.

That's a Christian excuse for being an atheist. Don't count on it to be true. And you're not persecuted.

I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion...and maybe - dare I dream of it - maybe one day there can be an openly Christian president. Or 43 of them. Consecutively." That's not being persecuted!

Jesus said his immediate followers would be persecuted. he has nothing to say to anyone after their generation.

That's not why most people don't believe in a god.

Most people don't believe in a god because there is no evidence of any sort that any god exists.

We don't believe in God because we see no reason to do so. Literally, we see no reason. No evidence. Nothing to convince us.

EVERYTHING you guys point to is either explainable by science or dismissible as an hallucination, lie, or myth.

That's not why I don't believe in your god, cupcake...nor in any other.

I don't believe in your god because there's no reason to...there's no evidence he or any similar figure exists.

I also don't believe in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, Thor, superman.... shall I go on?

Other way around:

Religious people are religious due to emotional reasons.

Atheists are atheists due to logical reasons.

You must not understand the reasoning behind our disbelief. It is certainly not because people are hurting us.

I don't know any atheists who use that as a reason.