2006-10-21 17:17:40 · 29 answers · asked by I-C-U 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have had some of the most horrible experiences you can imagine,
but I still believe in God and Jesus.
2006-10-21 17:21:11 · answer #1 · answered by Hannah's Grandpa 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I'm not an atheist, but why would you have to have had a horrible experience to become an atheist? What horrible experience did you have that forced you to become a christian, or Buddhist, or whatever religion one follows? Everyone makes their own decisions in life based on many different factors. They don't have to be horrible, just a personal experience which develops in to personal beliefs. The religion you choose to follow, doesn't indicate the kind of life you have led.
2006-10-21 17:27:44 · answer #2 · answered by quietwater 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I woke up one day and decided that its a good story, and it has some good get along and live in peace stuff. But the God of others is not my god. See my god is like the Universe, change is the only constant, so my god is a pony, or she is a worm with a pompador and ballet shoes, or one day it was a bunny rabbit. Might be the same god as others belive in and worship,just my version has style.
If a living person tells me I know what is gonna happen when you die, be afraid,be very very afraid, I know he is not a good person, so I do not listen to such.
Atheist is not to deny a God, it is a rejection of mans teachings about a God, thier god.
2006-10-21 17:30:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think being atheist is caused by having a horrible experience? I was just brought up to have an open mind about life, and learn for myself. My parents are liberal minded, religion was never forced on me.
2006-10-21 17:24:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most people have experienced something that could be regarded as a horrible incident, in their lives. I have seen people grasp at religion during a crisis more so than I have seen turn away. So again it goes both ways, people are people regardless of belief, and will sometimes do what others may feel is foolish, when they are under duress.
2006-10-21 17:25:49 · answer #5 · answered by harold p 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None. I just learned more and more and religion made less and less sense.
Now, the experience of becoming an atheist was pretty agonizing and took many hours a week in front of a cross alternately demanding or begging for any small table scrap to restore my quickly dwindling faith, but that was the experience of becoming an atheist, it did not make me become an atheist.
2006-10-21 17:20:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I have seen more people who have had a horrible experience turn to a god (religion). They are in great emotional distress and in those moments of pain and helplessness, they turn to god to help them through it. I would never put them down or question them, because if that's what they needed to help them get through, good for them. For those who believe all their lives, they have grown up in that culture and it is part of their belief system. It is a safe place.
Just imagine how those people would feel if they found out that nobody is watching over them...that bad things happen to everyone for no reason...and no one is looking out for them to make it better...That world would be pretty scary.
2006-10-21 17:34:47 · answer #7 · answered by Barry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was in my early teens I realized that everything I had been taught about God & Satan, Heaven & Hell was almost certainly just a particularly virulent myth. That realization made me feel liberated and hopeful, nearly euphoric. In no way was it horrible.
A day or two ago a Christian woman described the feeling of the "Holy Spirit" descending on her as making her "feel worthless".
That sounds pretty horrible to me.
2006-10-21 17:25:03 · answer #8 · answered by Jim L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I didn't have my own reasons for believing, some of the experiences I've had with other Christians might have made me an Atheist.
2006-10-21 17:23:58 · answer #9 · answered by dave 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was born and raised by a wonderful, supportive family. Therefore I had no reason to fear, that's why I don't believe in god. Maybe if my life was empty and devoid of any meaning then i'd be religious. I was always taught to avoid the easy answers, those are usually the wrong ones. I know many athiests, none had some disasterous event in their lives to make them convert. If anything, disaster often leads to religion....
Peace
2006-10-21 17:23:50 · answer #10 · answered by Stacey 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
people do not become atheist because of a single experience. They feel that have been lied to by christians their whole life and fed unrealistic stories and told if they do not see eye to eye they flesh will be ripped of and burned until the end of time
2006-10-21 17:21:05 · answer #11 · answered by Yoda 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋