athiest.....did you grow up christian and then fall away from the church?

Question

or have you been athiest all your life

Answer 1

I grew up Christian and then fell out of love with the religion after I studied it for too long.

Answer 2

Raised christian but had tons and tons of questions that I would think about over and over, especially at night -- questions about god, existence, etc. I saw the whole way the world/universe was set up w/ the predator/prey mechanism (why did god set it up so that animals had to viciously suffer?). I then had a bad experience with all the hell, guilt, sin stuff. I wanted to believe and read and read everything and anything I could. I read about the development of concepts like hell and the afterlife and how different people didn't have those concepts, etc. I soon found out that the people who had the most 'faith' were those who never even considered these questions; it was a sobering and telltale experience. Anyway, I didn't label myself an atheist but I realized that the fear of death was strong and that it was probably the thing behind the belief in god. I decided to keep an open mind, though. Later on, I had a tumultuous period in my life and had a real spiritual experience that showed me that God is unconditional love and is always there. The god that is about guilt, hell, etc. is not real.

Answer 3

I did not grow up in a christian home my father was an athiest and my mother blames everyone for her problems so I wonder if she is a christian. She does blame me for everything and won't let me go and she won't let me move out so I may have to take her to court to move out. I know it isn't not God's fault that how my mother acts the way she does or the fact all the bad things happen like my dad abusing me but God has been there I have been there. I have been a christian all my life since I was 13 and have a stronger faith with God with all I been through but I don't mind just have faith and keep going.

Mary

Answer 4

I'm agnostic not atheist, but....I was raised Methodist. Even as a child I just could not believe that while adults would tell me that there was no such thing as magic, and Cinderella, talking animals, etc. they were trying to get me to believe that some boat had every single species on it, and other magical tales. It always seemed silly. The people in the church were nice, but it seemed they always had some weird ulterior motive - like "be a good church girl and believe what we believe, or else we won't like you". Then when I was a teenager, I had a couple friends that went to youth group retreats - when they came back, they felt they needed to break up with their boyfriends because their boyfriends weren't of the same religion. I thought that was absolutely horrible - they took these kids to a retreat and brainwashed them! That is when I started to HATE organized religion.

Answer 5

I was raised catholic, I dont consider myself an athiest, I do believe in God worship in my own way. I just dont personally see the need for me to waste a perfectly good sunday, sitting down in a boring building while im told gonna go to hell. I also dont see the point of giving my hard earn money to these people, Did Jesus ever ask for money from the disciples and followers? I also Detest child rapists, with or without a cloth.

Answer 6

Mom's father was a Baptist minister, so I was sent to his church, but I never joined it. I had doubts about his religion when I was 7 or 8 years old, and they increased as I learned more. My brother and oldest sister are high school dropouts, while I am a college graduate who studies much on his own. They never doubted that the family religion is true, but they didn't always follow it. If they knew as much as I do, they might reject religion as I did. The Bible has many contradictions,and it is futile to deny it. The Bible is also quite inaccurate scientifically. I do not blindly believe anything.

Answer 7

I was raised Christian. I was an absolute believer until my mid-20s, at which time I started to see that religion wasn't the only option. It was a gradual, intentional process for me rather than a "falling away."

Answer 8

I grew up Christian and was very religious as a child, but in college I started to really think about how absurd it all was, and when I finally decided to stop trying to force myself to swallow all that stuff, it was the best decision I ever made. Now I do what I know is right for its own sake instead of doing it because I'm afraid of sinning. It's hard to believe how brainwashed I had been; now I'm free.

Answer 9

I grew up christian. I think it was the sincerity of my faith that allowed me to ask probing questions as a young adult. Those questions make the religion crumble to dust..

My girlfriend is atheist too. She was taken to church as a child but says she became an atheist very young. At age 6, she asked if dogs go to heaven. When they said no, she knew christianity was a load of crap.

Answer 10

I was a practicing Christian (mostly Baptist) for over 30 years.

I did not "fall away," I studied the issue as a mature adult and it is a fact that the bible is a book of mythology. "Christianity" has little or nothing to do with anything Jesus said or did. And, there is no credible evidence to support any of the bible stories, including the Jesus myths.

The only logical choice is atheism.

I am a logical person and do not need imaginary friends to justify my existence.

Answer 11

countless of those comments state that christianity is falling away, i've got faith it already did. It fell away after the apostles died and the church had no coaching. each and every guy or woman who has studied the early christians history is time-honored with of that each and every church in a area replaced into with the aid of itself, they ruled themselves and defined their very very own ideals approximately christianity. This replaced into the rationalization constantine replaced into forced to advance creeds for the Cathlic church, after a pair hundred years of seperation each and every of the bishops had distinctive comments approximately what they believed. They weren't even on the brink of "one faith". i think of that's surprisingly rediculous to then have faith that the cathlic church did not fall away by using fact the guy who based it, Constantince, replaced right into a pagan solar Worshipper. He replaced into in basic terms baptized a christian on his loss of life mattress. How ought to a pagan, who did not even have faith interior the religion got here across it? Then there is each and every of the terrible issues that the cathlics did interior the midsection a protracted time, and that definetly replaced into not gods will. Then that church has fragmented itself into the loads of distinctive denomination that exist immediately. that each and every have faith distinctive issues approximately christianity and seem to comply with the close by stantards of their society. look at christianities stand on homosexuality and immorality the previous decade, it rather is long previous from they're terrible sins, to god nonetheless loves you and you'd be forgiven for it. form of pathetic for a faith that's not meant to alter.