What made your turn your back on God? Non believers only?

Answer 1

because we dont know god well. we say we belive in god. but actualy we dont trust to god. when we have problem in our life we dont belive this which there is an strong power in this world which can help us.
we dont know who is god.

Answer 2

Well do you mean the christian god or all gods ?

Christianity- I cant swallow the idea that the only good thing in life is dying . Nor can I accept that women are the carriers of original sin .

All religion- lack of proof and the belief that in this modern world there is no further need .
People can be moral , can be kind and can stop chaos from running rapid we need only learn from our mistakes and it is of my personal opinion that because of the wars , slayings and torture that has been dished out by the hands of believers that religion may have been one of those mistakes .
I don't think I'm the only person able to see this and as technology grows peoples belief in god will diminish .
My only advice is too please go quietly as all the religions you took over did so many hundreds of years ago. Science and reason is the new universal religion whether you'd accept it or not .

Answer 3

I never turn my back on God, that mischievious bugger! Instead, I threw out the notion that I am a Christian and that I really knew what this God-persona really was or was up to. It happened in the course of being a virtuous and well-versed believer when I finally read through some verses that made me realize that what I was attempting was impossible! The whole thing is designed so that you can never "win" except by feeling hopeless and sorry for yourself. Furthermore, I realized that the God in the Bible was a bully and a cheat that gave one set of rules for followers while doing whatever he pleased. It pissed me off because I realized that in supporting a tyrant I was negating myself. Add to that the fact that I had been seduced by a woman I thought I was going to marry and then realizing that in not convincing her to marry me that I had somehow slipped out of acceptable boundaries of my faith. In fact, I couldn't be a "good Christian" now - even if I wanted to be! This fact keeps getting slapped in my face every time someone tries to convert me and has me study the Bible. There have been a few times where I had forgotten the verses and, ironically, they helped me renew my loss of faith instead of rebuilding it by eventually going back over the very same verses that killed it!

Nothing killed my belief quite as solidly as the rigidity of the Bible itself.

(Or the Koran, for that matter from when I studied Islam.)

I am ignorant enough about its texts to consider Buddhism.

I know enough about Taoism to know that it is nearly impossible to refute, yet it isn't really so much a religious belief as an existential philosophy.

I know that I am not Jewish enough to be a "chosen one" but that I'd be stuck being one if my mother was one.

I think that if God is real, then God is not necessarily "good" because "He" has done some fairly malicious things like selecting the Jews for "special treatment" which was really a mean way of making them pariahs.

If God allowed Satan to torment Job, but only by God's premission, then God, not Satan is responsible for the torment because God could have stopped it at any moment by withdrawing permission. I think Satan was added later from the original to give God a scapegoat. In the original, I bet it was God doing the torturing to test the faith of one of the believers - to show that he could abuse his power and still have follower loyalty. What a vile, vile God!

As for Revelations, it is a metaphor of the War of Eternal Doctrines and the Sin War. They were, are, and will be forever until the end of Christianity. Faith will always be lost and there have been, are, and will be always those that "go astray" in the face of an unjust religion. The end of faith is always a cataclysm to the disenfranchised - a fall from innocence and ignorance. But these things are not new - nothing is new under heaven and your faith is nothing but manifest vanity.

Answer 4

I was raised without strong religious training, so when I reached maturity I was able to make up my own mind. If you confront a Christian with the apparent irrationality of his belief, you will invariably get the answer "You just have to have faith." Well, no, you don't. There are hundreds of religions in the world. Why choose this one? Most other religions hold out the hope of a heaven without such a gruesome alternative. How can you not question the existence of a God who would invent Hell? Believing in God is just like believing in Zeus. It was fine two thousand years ago, but doesn't really make sense any more.

Answer 5

I didn't 'turn my back' on anything. You can't turn your back on something that doesn't exist. After reading the bible along with a lot of other things I figured out that it makes no sense to me, it's improbably and impossible for things to have been done the way they say in that book. There is also reasonable, rational explanations for all of it. Then when I started learning about mythology from many cultures, ones older than Christianity, I found the same kinds of stories that the bible has in it. So the combination killed the faith I had.

Answer 6

The realisation that there is no God and therefore nothing to turn my back on!

Forgive my bluntness, but believing in god seems foolish and in some cases distasteful - this whole idea of what god has planned for me - live your own life, don't hang around waiting for god to tell you what to do.

I also don't like god - this being is powerful enough to create a universe and it did it just to get a bunch of things to worship it (assuming for the sake of argument that god did exist, of course)? this is not something I want to worship!

Answer 7

because if there would be a God he would be so fool to me. at least currently i think so.
but anyway i believe there are much i don't know!
for example what is the beginning of world?( relatively this question may be proved nonsense!!)
where is the gravity come from? what is electromagnetic waves really? how they travel through the space if there is nothing and so.
at last i rather do not believe to heaven and hell than God him/herself! :)

Answer 8

When I noticed that all of the teachers in my Christian school were ex-alcoholics and ex-Heroin addicts. It's all brainwashing, and if the baby jesus disagrees with me, then he can fly through my window, and tell me so. There's no evidence of any deity, because it doesn't exist. Our parents lied to us about Santa Claus to keep us under control and on good behavior as children, and this is simply the adult method. The bible is the biggest lie ever told.

Answer 9

At first it was for a little bit of happiness.All I got was sorrow and pain.I'm only laughing on the outside. My smile is just skin deep. If you could see inside I'm really crying. You might join me for a weep.

Answer 10

Logic, Common sense, Intelligence, Lack of gullibility.

Answer 11

i wouldnt say i turned my back on god, i just found gods i liked better.