DId you reject GOD then or were you born into an atheist family agnostic?
2006-09-26 11:19:20 · 20 answers · asked by Stephanie D 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jim you are boring why are you wasting your time report
2006-09-26 11:28:09 · update #1
Who said I was religious?
2006-09-26 11:29:54 · update #2
I am not an atheist. I just think that the 10,000 religions that exist are asinine.
2006-09-26 11:25:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ive rejected God.
I was raised Catholic while living in SE Asia. I was told that those that do not beleive are cast into Hell. I asked if there were Chinese people in Heaven, and was told that there are indeed Chinese people in Heaven - those that had convereted. None others.
Being intelligent and well versed in world history, I couldnt help but feel this was a serious problem with the religions dogma. Im well aware of the advances mankind has made because of the Chinese....and these people are cast into Hell for their beleifs??? I cannot trust this God.....
Thats what pushed me away. Since then, simply reading the Bible and seeing all of the contradictions, and hearing how it is supposedly infallible, has made me an atheist.
2006-09-26 18:28:17 · answer #2 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was born into a Catholic family and went to Catholic school. The whole religion thing gives you a good set of morals, but little else for me. I think some people need something to look forward to when they die.
I am in between athiest and agnostic (if that makes any sense to you). I believe there is a far greater chance that our ancestors (and maybe even modern governments) were influenced by well-intentioned aliens than by a divine God.
How did the matter that came to become the universe come to be? How do we live in a universe with a uniform set of laws and elements and there be no intelligent design? If God exists, who or what created him? The thing that boggles my mind to no end is how anything could exist if something must have created it in the first place. The way we think as people, nothing comes from nothing, makes our very existence impossible.
2006-09-26 18:26:38 · answer #3 · answered by Eric 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was raised Southern Baptist. No one in my family or no one i knew growing up was an atheist. It was a slow process for me that started when I decided to take religion seriously. I read the entire Bible. I found when reading it that it contains so many contradictions and so much moral filth that it could not have been inspired. I also found that Christianity, as well as all other religions I have studied since are not based in facts at all. They are completely matters of faith. And if faith is what it takes to believe them, then that makes all religions true and i knew that couldn't be.
Me and my friend had some discussions about science and he brought up the term atheist to me. I didn't know what one was. I went to a search engine and typed in "atheist" and my thirst for knowledge has never stopped to this day. That was 6 years ago or so.
Me becoming an atheist had nothing to do with how believers act, or because i was looking for a ticket to sin. It had everything to do with me being an intellectually honest person who wanted to know what was true rather than just wanting to believe what i wanted to believe.
2006-09-26 18:50:35 · answer #4 · answered by AiW 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was born into a very dedicated Christian family. We grew up reading the Bible, praying, and I loved God. But something just didn't click for me...the older I got, the more I realized that it didn't make sense. Then my mother did a lot of wrong things and used religion as her excuse. That really didn't help my wavering belief in God. My mother used to tell me that I was too smart to be a Christian, because I kept questioning things...and I guess she was right.
When I moved out on my own, I flirted with a bunch of different religions, before I finally (fairly recently, too) came to the conclusion that there is no God. I'm a paramedic, and I see a lot of things, and it's hard to believe that a God would allow that to happen. I did a lot of research on atheism, and finally decided to become atheist. Made my life a whole lot easier, too!
Hope this helps!
2006-09-26 18:24:23 · answer #5 · answered by rita_alabama 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was born into a religious family, but I was given the freedom to choose my own path. I do not believe in god and that was a choice I made after educating myself about many different religions. I just choose what I believe to be right.
2006-09-26 18:34:20 · answer #6 · answered by Lisa 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was born into an agnostic family, and even Then I wasn't made aware of the difference between my family and others until something like 5th grade. It just wasn't a big deal in my house. I am incapable of the belief in a god, just as much as I am incapable of believing that I have an invisible arm protruding from my mouth. It wasn't a decision, just a natural non-belief.
2006-09-26 18:24:34 · answer #7 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was about 9 when I started asking questions. I wasn't sure until I was about 20. Organized religion had nothing to do with it. I was born in to a very religious home. My mother is a deacon.
2006-09-26 18:22:37 · answer #8 · answered by NIKK F 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've never been religious. I learned about the stories, but without being told that I must believe one thing or the other, and then when I really began to understand the world, it became obvious that gods are imaginary.
2006-09-26 18:23:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Man invented God in a known time of 2500 and before then other than the bible no proof of this Holy Spirit existed
2006-09-26 18:22:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was born into a Baptist family.
The evidence does not support God belief. It has nothing to do with religious dogma. No (supernatural) Gods exist.
2006-09-26 18:21:50 · answer #11 · answered by Left the building 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋