1)What led you to become an atheist?

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2)What age did you declared yourself atheist?
3)How do you feel about living in a world where most people are religious?
If you're not an atheist, that's okay. Skip these questions and answer some other ones. ;-)

Someone gave me a thumbs down. (._.)

Answer 1

Forced into Episcopal religious services for childhood. had a wreck when I was 17 and clinically dies. No light, no relatives waiting, nothing...

Plus I just don't believe any of it... Hollywood could come up with a better idea.

I am a Humanist. I believe I have the power as a human being to decide my path.

Answer 2

1)What led you to become an atheist? I read something on the origin of religion during a period when I realized religion was stupid. It all clicked so I became an Atheist.
2)What age did you declared yourself atheist? 10
3)How do you feel about living in a world where most people are religious? I feel ashamed, it seems rediculous that in the age of computers people still seem to believe in mythologies.

Answer 3

1) The lack of proof why I should not be one, along with the realisation that many believers I know are terribly brainwashed. I obviously don't want that for me.

2) I don't think there was a moment when I did. I never was a believer. I never was sent to mass or to any kind of religious rituals. I don't know when I started calling myself an unbeliever. And I don't strictly call myself an atheist, because atheists bother to decide that there is no god. My position is I just don't care if there is one. That's technically called "ignosticism", with an I.

3) Sick and tired. Like walking on egg. Furious with the narrow-mindedness that this brings about. Outraged that I have to do certain things just because the church wants. For example, not going to work on Good Friday. If there is one holiday I'd love to skip that is it.

Answer 4

The fact that there's no god.

I realized this around age 20, and really started thinking of myself as an atheist a few years later.

I think that religion is overall kind of a wash as far as its effect on the world, though it's seeming more and more lately to be a terrible idea, as the Christians, Jews, and Muslims seem hell-bent on starting religious wars and those of us living in the modern world find ourselves caught in the middle. I just wish all the religious folks would go away somewhere and fight it out among themselves, and leave the rest of us out of it.

Oh, the Buddhists can stick around - they're cool.

Answer 5

1) Just read the Bible with an open mind.
2) I don't know. Is like a purification process.
3) the same way of living with Democrats, Republicans, whites, blacks, brown, Indians, ignorants or genius, child's, teenagers, grandparents, cats, dogs and all the living things on this planet. The religion is only a part of the believes that conform each person and definitely is not the more important.

Answer 6

1) The dawning realization that the "God" Concept is a falsehood. It simply allows those who cannot grasp the scope of the world around them an explanation for that that is beyond them.

2) I had an early inkling of the falseness of "God". Growing up in a Catholic community, it was hard to overcome the brainwashing. I truly declared myself an atheist in my late teens.

3) It is incredibly saddening to watch the efforts and resources that are wasted in religion's name. There could be so much more done to improve this world.

Answer 7

1) Studies of various religions and philosophies in college, my interest in science, my innate need for logic and sensibilty. The day i decided, i was thinking of lightning that hit a tree near my house. It hit me that 1,000 years ago, i would have probably been on my knees afraid of some god that was angry at me, but now we all know it's random electrical activity. Then it hit me how ridiculous the whole "god of the gaps" thing was and it steamrolled from there.
2) around college age.
3) It drives me a little crazy to be honest. At least I live in new England where it's not usually much of an issue.

Answer 8

1)What led you to become an atheist?

History

2)What age did you declared yourself atheist?

25

3)How do you feel about living in a world where most people are religious?

Like galileo trying to convince the world that the earth is not the center of the universe.

Answer 9

I saw how a bunch of people were putting "because I realised religion is stupid"
Now, I'm not looking for a fight here, I just was always curious of this.
In this world, it is actually SAFER scientifically to say there is a divine power than it is to say we evolved or something. I mean, if you look thouroughly into the overwhelming complexity of the world and everything in it (just take the human body for example, look up in extreme detail just about the human eye or how protiens are decoded), that it happened by chance, and it was a random scope of events? I mean, its not absoloutly perfect, but it does pretty well. If people evolved, than why does nature work in cycles the way it does? wouldnt things just adapt so that particular species worked out maybe OK, and not so that everything could go on? How likely is it that we just "happened" to have to breathe out carbon dioxide and plants just "happened" to excrete oxygen? It never made sense to me. Even if you didnt beleive in a God, there must be some glue holding this all together, it didnt all just "happen" randomly

Answer 10

Common sense and reality. I gave you the thumbs down because nothing leads you to become an athiest. Take note that because thier is so much contradiction in the various religions it is hard to swallow what is considered correct. eg Some believe in jesus and some dont.