Why are former believers now atheists?

Question

For me its evolution, can't believe in the savior Jesus if the man's blood line doesn't go back to Adam and Eve.

Answer 1

mkos you are a liar an and a s s h o l e back on topic. perhaps because most atheists have researched christianity, the history, the bible, and realized it was all a scam to contol the masses.

Answer 2

*sigh* you all got me started on religion....now you are sooo into for it. First of all based on the Adam and Eve theory as the creators of all mankind. They would have had children who would have had to continue the human race by sleeping with each other. Incest causes extreme birth defects hence why it is illegal. Second, there is a famous artifact called the shroud of Turin. This artifact claims to have the image of Jesus imprinted on the cloth. Truth be told there is a high amount of radiation on the cloth, which could contribute to jesus coming back to life. unfortunatly the shroud only dates back to the middle ages and not to the time of jesus. Which leads me to wonder where the radiation came from. I may not believe in organised religion but i do believe in the unexplained. Ghosts, the lochness monster, religious healers,and things of that nature. So i guess my point is that former believers turn athiest because they may want to believe in things that aren't just explained by "god made it." They could also turn Athiest because of the people who use religion as an excuse. For example a few years ago there was a man who sold stuff on the christian channel. He claimed that god spoke to him and said that he would kill him UNLESS the viewers sent in 8 million dollars. The sad thing is that he received the money. That is why i no longer believe in a god or even in any religion at all.

Answer 3

When I was 12 I joined the church I had been attending. Shortly thereafter a group within the congregation got together and black balled the minister. I left.

Many years after we married my wife was "born again". She is a real Bible thumper. I have had the displeasure of meeting some of her "christian" friends. To a man, they have lied, cheated, and stolen. If you will know a Christian by their works, then I really don't want to be associated with any of them.

As far as disassembling the Bible goes, well let's say it is just too easy. Anyone that can read and remember what they read from word to word will have a heII of a lot more questions than answers. As I told one of the thumpers my wife hangs around with, 'I read a math book, the first equation was 2+2=9, I threw the book away'. When you read the Bible that sort of thing happens at least once on every page. If the Bible was written today, the revue would be brutal. At the very least the author would be charged with the inability to maintain coherent thought.

Answer 4

Darwin is at it again..

Sorry to hear your turtle died the other day..

I'm surprised to see you admit there is a Jesus and Adam and Eve..

Some off these answers are pretty funny an atheist discovering "the true path of enlightenment" If there is no reason to be here where would that come from?? If there is no reason for existence there is no enlightenment, just lost people..

How about the "open minded atheist"..He's such a studied man when was he open minded??

Answer 5

Where does this idea come from that if one believes in God, he must necessarily reject evolution, and if one believes in evolution, one must necessarily reject God? Unless we qualify evolution as a religion in it's own right, I have a problem understanding this.
By the way, Jesus' blood line purportedly DOES go back to Adam and Eve.

Answer 6

Evolution is one thing. But there are plenty of other reasons. Dinosaur bones and carbon dating are another one.

To believe in the Creation story is lunacy. That's a dead giveaway right there. But to explain why it's lunacy takes a long time, and a willing audience.

Unfortunately, most people of "faith" won't take the time, or the open mind, to actually consider the facts concerning their own religion. It's really quite sad.

Answer 7

I don't know if I ever really believed - the way Schneb and Contemplative Chanteuse believe. People talked a lot about God, so I just presumed that there was one. I don't think the idea was ever very deeply entrenched in my brain. So for me, it's not so much evolution as the realisation that disbelief just makes more sense than belief.

Answer 8

As a young and devout Catholic student, my encounter with the history of the Reformation ignited my curiosity and indignation – and many of my teachers deemed them both “alarming.” The mendacity and cruelty of all concerned sunk me into a kind of despair that wouldn’t come into fashion for yet another decade or two.

The catalyst was Sister Mary Euphrosyne, who absolutely refused to lie or quibble. (This tradition may have died with her.) No matter what I asked her about the events, she gave me what the sources said, not the Church’s interpretation. Digging further revealed the tendentious and sometimes seamy politics behind everything, especially the creation of scriptural text and interpretation. I felt downright conned.

Looking into the “Christian” anti-Catholics did nothing to create a better image of their whole enterprise. If anything, they seemed much more steeped in reactive dogma and anti-intellectualism. Then science began to work its “magic” on me. “Holy, Moley”, said I, “this fecal matter works!” (I was always given to formalism.) And now even religion itself was coming into the crosshairs of my inquiry as a potential scientific problem.

BTW, St. Euphrosyne was later deemed apocryphal by the Catholic church.

Answer 9

I disagree with Julia. Very few atheists go back. Some of them do, when they feel hopeless/are about to die. This is oppurtunistic "theism", it doesn't happen because of the bible. Some former believers are now atheists because they have seen true path to knowledge and not the fake "true religious knowledge".

Answer 10

Well if the belief is weak, and the following is blind...it is better to be atheist, at least an atheist does not follow anything blindly and questions every thing

Nature may, perhaps, increase number of atheists to warn the religions, either to strong their base or be vanished

Answer 11

This is a long story, but for me it is because I went to a babptist school and all they did was preach about helping your fellow man and giving all you can to them even if it means the last bite of food you have. Then my mom got cancer and couldnt pay the school bill. They kicked me, my brother (10) and my sister (7) out of the school. So much for helping people I guess. Religion breeds hipocrites.