For those that once were religious and now are not...?

Question

If you were once religious, what made you realize it was all wrong? What were the things that really opened your eyes and made you think wow, i cant believe i actually believed this...

Answer 1

Every one has some sort of belief or religious persuasion.
be it your own thought out way...Please be more specific.
Basically you will return to your inward heart and mind and always have respect for our creator no matter what.

Answer 2

I started to have some serious questions about Christianity and the Bible that the minister could not answer. I wanted to know why he kept telling us that "witnessing" to others was the most important function we could do as Christians and that all other religions, faiths & beliefs were wrong because they did not accept Christ as their saviour. I started reading, everything I could get my hands on about all other faiths from Buddhism to Wicca. I even attended some pagan rituals, Jewish synagogues, Buddhist retreats and Muslim mosques. It was really an eye opening experience, for the positive. I never felt more free because I was finding answers for myself and not being TOLD what to believe. I finally found a Unitarian Church and have really found peace. I'm not saying everything was necessarily wrong but I got tired of being around people that were so close minded. I'm sure it's not the case with all Christians but just my experience. Hope this helps!!!!

Answer 3

I used to be a devout christian. I loved Jesus and I was constantly reading the bible and I even wanted to be a youth pastor.

One day while I was taking a shower my knoledge in science clashed with my faith and I realized that there is no god. It happened all at once. I began to dive deeper into the bible in a desperate attempt to save my faith. The more that I read the bible the more that I realized that it was made up. I was paniced and alone and I was afraid that if I told my friends that they wouldn't like me any more.

I pretended to be a christian for two years afterwards, which took a massive toll on me. Eventually I reached my breaking point and I did lose most of my friends over it.

That just goes to show you how kind and loyal christians can be.

Answer 4

It was actually a weird non-event. A butterfly I caught for my 5th grade class died b/c the teacher wouldn't release it as promised. Before this I had extreme guilt over my body. I was molested as a young kid but my body responded as a woman's does although I was only 4 years old. It was pleasurable but I knew it was wrong. The real closer on me believing in religion was the Bible itself. Later in 5th grade I read about how God created Lucifer - his favorite Angel, who turned against him. That doesn't make since to me still. God supposedly created Humas b/c he wanted to be loved by beings that had a choice -so does that mean he created Satan to be Satan and Satan has no choice and he was God's favorite? God knew he was going to be betrayed by him? Why did he send Satan to the garden of eden? Wasn't that Paradise? So as punishment for betraying God, Satan ends up in Paradise? What?

As an adult I recently tried to read the Bible. I made it a couple hundred pages and just couldn't. How can anyone read that thing and believe it? Right in the beginning God chooses a fav b/t Cain and Abel - and it's based off the fact that God prefers Meat sacrifices. The Bible's God loves Jews and no one else. And God loves sacrifices and he has all kinds of favorites. My grandmother tells me to read the new testament but it won't ever erase what I already know is in the old one -such as when the Laws were created. There is a law about how if you rape a slave that's been already given away or sold then you have to sacrifice a bull and a ram. Does anyone get what that is saying? It's okay to have slaves, it's okay to rape them as long as they are really yours. That same passage says that if you are gay then you are to be killed and if you do disrespect your parents then you are to be killed. It's all BS. There is also a passage about how one of the young priests got all excited and burned incents while the "pleasing aroma" of burning fat was happening - so God struck him down dead. Read it. It's there.

I do believe in something. It's just not the Bible's God. What something? I can't define it. I don't know. I'm just a small human, but I do have faith that there is something more powerful, a higher order then ourselves.

Answer 5

At about the age of 11, I began to realize that there was no more evidence for Christianity than there was for Santa Claus. I also began to notice how people professing to be Christians were quite hypocritical when it came to things like professing a belief in helping others and actually doing something to help others. I then studied a variety of religions over time, and found that they all rested upon the same principle: belief despite the complete and utter absence of evidence for the existence of any supreme being.

Answer 6

I had questions that I never had acceptable answers for since I was a kid. I still went along with and even tried many times to bend the logic to make sense, I wanted to believe in a better life and life after death. Who doesn't want that?

The big mistake people make about Atheists is they think we relish the idea of no afterlife. It's not that, it's not even close. We all want to live forever, we just don't see anything credible to latch onto, so we accept the obvious until better evidence is presented, at least that's my plan.

Answer 7

I read a lot of books and realised that it is all the same stuff yet the human life is not becoming better , so it is possible that humans themselves came with a concept ..........then I read about niche and another article in time magzine and I made up my mind that there is no god , I am just 22 all my family is extremely religious and they think that I ma crazy doing PhD but not beleiveing god ...........but anyways I dont care either

Answer 8

talking animals,burning bushes that talk, god using burning chariots to travel around in the sky,food falling from the sky along with frogs,sticks turning into serpents.seas that suddenly divide.

Answer 9

I actually READ the bible.
The whole thing, and didn't pick & choose around the evil parts.

Answer 10

never was really religious but had to go every weed till i was 18 then stped goin cause all they wanted was my d*mn money