Question for atheists.?

Question

Why did you decide to become atheists, what happened to you and what used to be your religion?

i do not consider myself to be in any religion, i used to be catholic but the way they run things creep me out. But i am not atheist either because i still believe and talk to God when i need him. In my opinion, sometimes you just have to believe.
I also think that the reason many are atheists is because religions have screwed up God's image, but there is no reason why people should stop believing, just my opinion.
Do atheists agree with some of my opinions?

Answer 1

Was raised Lutheran in a private Lutheran school, church every Sunday, the whole nine. As I got older it just started to sound like nonsense. I started feeling like my mother was ignorant for beleiving it (I was 13). I started to understand the human fear of death and recognize that the promise of eternal bliss would be very persuasive over humanity, no death no suffering. I started realizing that leaders of churches were often criminal against humanity. When I was 15 I learned that my best friend's mother was denied membership to the church she had been a member of for years, because after a divorce and losing her job then accepting a lower paying job she could no longer afford to give 10% of her income to the church.

Answer 2

There are many bad things in the world, which creates the question, "how can there be a great, who goes by God". Second of all, its the advancements in technology, which target youths. Would a child rather play the new game on a PSP or go to church to learn about unproven facts? IT is also a fact that religion was human made, so what is the difference between me making up a story and some other Roman Emperor who created Catholicsm.? People are more interested in being rich by spending ther time on commercialism, so religion is not seen in any goals?

Answer 3

I used to be catholic and experience years of hate and intolerance growing up. Then, I spent my entire lengthy college career studying history and found that Christianity as a whole was by far the most murderous, intolerant, hateful, oppressive society that ever inhabited this earth. To date, Christianity is responsible for more racially, religiously, and lifestyle motivated murders than Al-qaida, Nazi's, and every group combined times 100. I was taught to hate others, look down on my friends, and live life totally against my beliefs and the teachings of my religion. So, I worship in my own way and hope every day that the Christian churches will be held accountable for 2000 years of oppression and murder.

Answer 4

I went through the following religions and philosophies in the order I went through them: Wicca, non-christian Unitarian-Universalist, then agnostic for 8 years before switching to spiritual atheism. Nothing happened to me that I turned away from deity. It was a gradual process for me.

Your opinion about religions screwing up deity's image is only partly correct for many atheists. I would imagine many atheists are atheist for better reasons than just a fooked up image of deity. That reason alone is a shoddy reason to be atheist, frankly.

Answer 5

I was a practicing Christian for over thirty years, mostly Baptist. I also studied other religions and history.

The decision to become an atheist was due to studying the issue and concluding the bible is a book of mythology and if the biblical God exists, he is useless for any practical purpose.

Having faith in the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus will have the exact same effect as having faith in Jesus or any other cartoon character.

Answer 6

I didn't decide to become an atheist. I've always been an atheist. Nothing happened to me. I was born an atheist. Actually, all humans are born atheists. Something has to happen to you, in order for you to become theist. Something such as, a parent brainwashing you as a child or perhaps trauma to the head with a blunt object . . .

Answer 7

I was raised a catholic. At a young age I was told to "stop thinking" because I had so many questions. I did'nt, I just kept the questions to myself . Luckily the catholic school I went to burned down and I went to a secular school. Imagine my surprise when they did'nt tell me to "stop thinking" but actually encouraged me to continue and to ask questions!
Thank fully I was young and I actually rejected any notion of god by the time I was 12.
And I've never looked back.

Answer 8

yeah i was raised a christian and as i grew up there were questions the christians couldnt answer for me, and i gradually began to realize that non of this is true and doesnt actually make sense once you take a step back and look at it...so im agnostic and ill take science to give me facts, as relgions says it has all the answers unlike science, but both have questions that no one can answer (like what was before the big bang? or who created God? something has to come from something else right?)

Answer 9

Isn't it funny how theists assume something traumatic must have happened to make someone atheist?

For me, I received an education. I used to be a christian. I even believed in creationism and all that rubbish.

Answer 10

Some people just don't believe. Theres nothing you can do about it. Not everybody is born into religion.

I'm not athiest by the way.