Christians, dont pretend you're an Atheist just to try and make us look bad
This question is not meant for so called former Atheists. Most so called former Atheists were never Atheist to begin with
2006-08-12 08:33:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Embarassed I was once a Christian.
2006-08-12 08:37:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really notice a difference most times. Although it allows me to see all the inherent faults in religion a lot easier and I am a lot more open to things I don't understand. But really I'm not sure what I was before atheist, Christian, Catholic, protestant, I was just raised so that I always heard about God and all the stuff he did and I'd even try praying when I was really distraught. But that's how religion gets you, promises consolation in times of weakness. But one day I was listening to a Bad Religion song (ironically my favorite band even when I believed in God) and I realized I just never really believed it. I had been told by the world to believe it, I'd seen smart people and people I knew believe it (my uncle is a pastor) so I'd just kind of fallen in line. I just kind of realized that no god had ever done anything for me, I could logically explain everything in my life completely Godlessly. So I fell out of what was already empty habit and became atheist. Now I've come to see that anything without evidence is bullcrap 98% of the time and don't see why religion (man made at its earliest roots) should be any different.
2006-08-12 15:48:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people may choose the identity of atheism; others question and question and ponder and ponder and go through anguish as we wrestle with the stuff we've been taught and come up with the realization that there are a great deal of holes in it all. However, I do keep an open mind and I did have a real spiritual experience; thus, I don't know what the frig I am.
2006-08-12 15:38:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
im not pretending to be an atheist,,,,,far from it, i am a christian,,,,,but i kinda find it funny,,,,,,id say if any one of you were going down in a plane ,,,,,,the first words that would come of your tounge is,,,,,,,,oh God,,,,so are you really an atheist or just trying to appease your consious so you can live a sinful life without regret,,,,,it wont change the facts,,,, god is and all will stand before him,,,,,,,think about that
2006-08-12 15:52:35 · answer #4 · answered by technician68 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel depressed not having the rose-colored glasses on any more. It was better knowing that we had a chance to see our dead loved ones or that someone was looking over us. But with objective reality, all that is thrown to the wayside and life has taken on a whole new meaning, albeit, a depressed one.
2006-08-12 15:41:01 · answer #5 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was once an agnostic, as a child. Now I have discovered grand truth, and am a better person for it. I also now appreciate the lunacy of religion a great deal more.
2006-08-12 15:38:05 · answer #6 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It felt uncomfortable at first. with the "holy spirit" leaving me (AKA Brain Washing)
Now it is just a relief. I felt it for quite a while, just never explored it. I just can not believe without evidence that which is told by those without knowledge about things without parallel
2006-08-12 15:48:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Much better, thank you.
-- former deist
2006-08-12 15:38:24 · answer #8 · answered by sheeple_rancher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋