Atheists only! What made you decide to become an Atheist?

Answer 1

I took a good, hard look at the Bible and its claims, realized that it is contradictory, untrustworthy, and full of myth, fable, and impossible events, and discarded it as the writings of superstitious people who understood very little about the natural world. After that, it didn't take much reasoning power to draw the same conclusions about other belief systems. I don't believe in BibleGod, or any god, for the same reason that I don't believe in Santa Claus--they don't exist.

Answer 2

I didn't exactly "decide" to become an atheist, but I've had plenty of opportunities to become something else, and I figure that's what you're really asking. Lack of belief is the default state; accepting a belief requires action.

I considered several alternatives while growing up, including Catholicism (so I could go to church with a girl I liked) and Satanism (because I was going through a "phase"). Each time, my mom said the same thing: "If you're not going to use your brain, then you better learn to mop floors and clean toilets, because I'm not paying for your education." She would then ask a series of questions about the religion I picked, which all had the same result: the religion was inherently self-contradictory and illogical, and I couldn't honestly claim to be a rational being while holding such beliefs.

While I no longer depend on her for financial support, I still can't accept an illogical faith without admitting to myself that I'm being stupid. So I'm an atheist.

Answer 3

As people have already said. Babies are born as atheists. Somewhere along the way people convince them of some unsubstantiated stories and for some people they find comfort in those stories and remain believers. Others look at the mistakes, the contradictions, the hypocrisy, and the magical nature of the various religious doctrines and realize that it makes little sense. They therefore remain atheists.

I mean just for a moment try and consider Christianity as if it were the first time you had heard about it:

This magic guy called God makes the Earth, makes people out of mud, makes a billion species in a day, labels some of these animals unclean, makes a set of rules, acts all surprised when the rules are broken (even though he is supposed to know everything), banishes people from a nice place forever for one little mistake. Then he makes people suffer, gets mad at the world and floods it killing millions of innocent creatures (but he loves us). Then he challenges his people to believe in him and if they don't he allows them to be tortured for eternity in hell. God also participates in various wars and battles in which God kills thousands of people. Then he sends his only son to Earth and sits back and allows him to be tortured and killed. His son (who was born to a virgin) rises again, yet his close friends don't even recognize him. He then goes to Heaven and lives with his father, God. All the good people get to live in Heaven and all like it there. All the naughty people go to Hell where they are tortured for all eternity by Satan, who God doesn't like very much but allows him to continue spreading evil throughout the world. There is no proof of any of this except a book that has a massive amount of contradictions and false prophecies in it, including the one where Jesus told his followers that the world would end during the life time of some of the followers he was preaching to. Since that all supposedly happened 2000 years ago it is a fair bet that all are now dead. Even Noah, Adam and various other Biblical characters died after they were over 900 years old.

Now seriously, does this story really make sense if you think about it objectively?

Answer 4

Is just that the idea of god doesn't fit in the rational understanding of life. The christan god, with which I was raised, seems a very vindictive being, childish, resentful, among many other defects, which are really not worthy of worshiping.

The way science explains everything doesn't include god, and if we understand science as a formalization of the human rational capacity, god is not something we can believe rationally. People believe in god emotionally

That's what I believe

Besides, I don't want to live my life worrying if my behavior is sinful or not, worrying if I'm going to hell or to heaven. I felt such a relief when I decided not to believe in god... you can't imagine!

Answer 5

Nothing happened. All of religions an mythologies are in the reach of human -and logic- explanations. II realized that there is no God in Earth or Sky. Life is simple and wonderful; I do not needed any surhuman being to comprehend something of this feast. Death is the end, as it occurs to the others animals- We have 96,60% in common with chimpanzees, you know. "Man is a wild monkey ill of megalomania" (Klages).

Answer 6

People are born atheist. Then they are taught that these religious explanations of the world are true. But those are old and incorrect explanations, entwined with tools of control and extortion. Science has no reason to lie. It is the pure search for why, how, and what now.

Answer 7

Everyone starts out as an atheists until someone forces these sick work of fiction on them. Those who remain atheists are smart normal people.

Answer 8

I was raised a Baptist but always resented being forced to go to church. Even as a young child I doubted. I am a visual learner and the fact that I can't see God makes me weary.

Then, the bible has soooo many missing pieces and contradicts itself in many places further made me leave the church.

My parents hate it, but I can't believe in something I don't understand. If it was more creditable, maybe...

Answer 9

I didn't decide to become one; it isn't a club that you join or an alternative religion. What led me down that path was observation, then thinking about what I observed. It became clear to me that the entity the majority of people worship (regardless of their actual religion) doesn't exist.

Answer 10

My dad is an atheist-

His point is that..every thing in this world happens for a reason, there is science behind everything.

Balls to that theory.