Bad Reason #2.
If God existed, free will would not be possible and since humans have free will, God doesn't exist.
This is yet another statement that people make. That they've become unbelievers because them having free will and there being an omniscient being existing are mutually exclusive and cannot both be true. There are a couple of assumptions that are being made here.
#1 is that they have free will or that free will exists because they "feel" like it does. Whether or not humans have free will is something that is still up for debate. One of the major counter-points of free will is that we live in a physical universe where laws of nature are followed by everything. We are nothing but a bunch of neurons which are made up of atoms and since the properties and behavior of neurons are very well defined, if we had some advanced MRI machine we could be able to read the state of all of them given that we know their state at a previous time. One counter-argument to this though is that free will might be an emergent property perhaps the same way that consciousness is. All in all, it is not known whether free will exists or not.
#2 assumption being made is that the concept of free will (or the illusion of free will) and a God who knows the future are incompatible. This might sound like a good argument but it's more of an educated guess. God is believed to be outside the realms of space and time and thus may not be bound by universal principles. The assumption may also be a little bit on the realm of questions like "Can God create a rock too heavy for Him to lift?" Our minds and the way we understand language may not be sufficient yet to answer such questions.
All in all, the argument stated above by some atheists which is the reason for their lack of religion isn't a very valid and sound one.
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