@nprofile1q... those aren't the most ironclad reasons for not being a christian (aside from IFB), but they are the reason for my deconversion. recently I think an allegorical reading of Genesis 1 is plausible aside from ad-hoc reinterpretation. although the entirety of Genesis would need to be allegorical and that's a taller requirement.
you can see scripture in many different ways, but most of them don't consist of anything the author plausibly meant
Matthew 25:34 is even less ambiguous, because Matthew added in extra features from 1 Corinthians 15 into the context of the near future after the destruction of the temple, linking the two.
that's the thing, what I listed for evolution is evidence of common ancestry with apes specifically, not evolution in general.
there's always a missing link since we can't find the exact genealogy of modern man all fossilised, there will necessarily be gaps, each new link adds two gaps where before there was one
I'm not strictly an atheist in the sense of materialist secular humanism anymore, I am finding myself to be gradually more Nietzschean, in that view materialist secular humanism is placing new fictions back in the place God previously resided in philosophy.
but by the definition of atheist I used in OP and ever since, a spirit realm is not contrary, as gods have different qualities and roles in philosophy (e.g. creators to be worshipped, having authority over values)