A question for Athiest!?

Question

I would like to know what made you become an athiest. Did something happen in your life to make you not believe in God? Why are you an athiest?

Just to let ya'll know, I am not judging or trying to shove my beliefs in anyones face right now I would just like to know. Thank you! And I do believe that there is only 1 might and powerful God. THE GOD.

Answer 1

I'll always believe in God. Look at your body...look at drawings and diagrams of what the inside looks like. How could this ever build itself???? it HAD to be designed...

Answer 2

I see no need to believe in a God. Everything that exists follows standard, demonstratable processes. We might not understand a few of the more esoteric ones, but scientific inquiry is continuing on as it has for centuries.

I can understand how the universe came into existence, the world formed, life began, and modern species evolved from those humble beginnings. All without needing to invoke a deity.

In science, there is a principle called "Occam's Razor". This principle says that the hypothesis requiring the fewest assumptions is the prefered hypothesis. Since I can see the universe coming to the point it is now either with a deity or without a deity, I choose the one that doesn't assume a deity.

Simple enough.

Answer 3

I was born not believing in "god," just as you were. I had the advantage of growing up in an artistic and intellectual community where nobody ever mentioned religion, "god," or superstition. We knew all about beauty, joy, and the basic reasons for treating one's fellow human beings fairly and gently.

What you call "the golden rule" came naturally to us, because we did not have a religion to teach us that other people deserved less fair treatment than we did.

If you had grown up without religion, you also would be free. You would not have a religion to make you feel superior to anyone, and if no one had ever mentioned religion, "god," or supernatural fear to you, it would never have occurred to you.

You just happen to have grown up in a place where a particular theistic religion is taught to children. If you had grown up in Tibet, you would have a completely different conception of religion, "god," and the supernatural. And that would seem like "the only way" to you until you reached the level of mental and spiritual growth at which you began to question what you were taught.

The truth will make you free. It may make you depressed first, but eventually it will reward you with freedom.

Most of the people you call "atheists" are just people who are free of the oppressive religious thoughts you have been taught. You should try it sometime. I promise you you'd never want to go back!

Answer 4

Yes, somewhere along the line, someone thought there must be a "God" and started to spread the idea. While some were convinced of existence of "God", others remained skeptical on the truthfulness. The debates kept going and fell into the ears of would be Atheists and they adopted the idea -- much like some theists adopted the idea that there must be a "God". That's the reason -- from the POV of an agnostic.

Answer 5

Is health a disease, or an absence of disease? Atheism is not a position or an opinion, it is an absence of one.

People do not "become atheists", they stop believing in religious mumbo-jumbo or, more fortunately, are never indoctrinated in religious filth.

I was force-fed the filth of religion when I was young. When I learned how to think and examine the facts I threw off the filth of religion. I became an atheist not because I chose to take something, but because I threw something away that was unnecessary.

And as I just said, I became an atheist because I became educated in the facts of the universe and stopped believing hate-filled lies and brainwashing.


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Answer 6

I grew up believing in god and even became born again at about 18. When I got to college I took religious studies, anthropology and history. I had a fascinating religious studies professor who was a pastor and he taught pretty straight and I still to this day am impressed with his honesty about the amount of faith it took to believe the word of the bible even with all the obvious false references that were uncovered when once looked at historically and analytically.

I quickly became more interested in history and to a bigger extent cultural anthropology. These interests led me to learn more about other beliefs and cultures as well as learning about how Christianity and Catholicism are full of hatred, brutality and genocide imposed on the world at large throughout history. This led to my not seeing how such a culture or belief could be believed to be true when in reality everything they preach is not supported by their cruel actions.

Plus learning about how the world works and that the duplicity in other culture's beliefs in the same basic myth foundations (the great flood and Christ-like figures worldwide) led me to believe that things like the flood were natural disasters that all cultures went through and created myths that mirrored these events around the world. Which made them all the same in my eyes. Myths explaining what the people at that time couldn't explain so they created and believed in them in their own way.

The christian bible just has the benefit of being the belief that happened to be in the right place at the right time to "take over the world" as it were.

As a closing point, look at the reason we celebrate Christmas in December as Jesus' birthday when he wasn't born in December. This was a Pagan celebration date that was altered to convert pagans to Christianity. If you take the bible at it's word, not only does it seem blasphemous to celebrate any day other than the sabbath but to warp your most precious savior's birthday around a pagan holiday exacerbates the blasphemy. If you ask me Christians should support a war on Christmas if they really believed that the bible was the word of god.

Answer 7

Christians are atheists regarding all gods but one, based on the fact that there is no proof of the existence of these gods. Christians hold that The Bible and personal experience are proof of their god. I do not believe that The Bible or my own experience prove the existence of the Christian god.

I'm actually an agnostic, however, as it's impossible to prove a universal negative, i.e. that there is/are no god(s).

Answer 8

Didn't "become", always have been a non-believer. I never paid much attention in Sunday school or church because it all (religious teachings) didn't seem true to me and really never made much sense. As I got older (and wiser) it all gradually made less and less sense, and the more I heard from the theists, the less sense it all made. So, it has gotten to the point where when people start quoting the bible, I just go blank and completely ignore what they are saying.

Answer 9

I read the Bible. I listened to Christians as they condemned the non-believers to hell for not believing in something that cannot be proven to exist. I watched the World Trade Centre crumble and three thousand people die in the name of "Allah". I've read science textbooks that clearly explain the so-called supernatural phenomenon that religious believers attempt to use to justify their faith, and I've watched believers condemn this truth as evil and deceitful. I've watched Christians degrade homosexuals and people of different races (the Ku Klux Klan) all because "God said so". I have had enough of this ridiculous, catastrophic phenomenon called religion, and I wish it would just keel over and die.

Answer 10

You make it sound like the default choice is to believe in God. That is not the case. Nothing happened in my like to make me not believe, I have never really believed. Oh, I went to sunday school when I was young, and I've read a great deal of the bible, but I've never really believed in the existence of God.

Answer 11

There is no proof of a Creator. Think about this: If you're willing to accept that God has been around forever and made the Universe, than why aren't you willing to accept that the Universe has been around forever without being created? It's the same concept when you think about it. God just adds the morals, while the Universe itself does not care.