At what point did you "wake up"? What finally tipped you off to the insanity of religion?
Do you remember a specific occurrence that helped you realize a more logical reality?
2006-10-22 18:28:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Learning about ancient religions and how they have become nothing more than mythology. The claims are just as fantastic as modern religions and it made me realize that it's just the contemporary mythology... nothing more.
2006-10-23 01:05:47 · answer #1 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an atheist, but I'm certainly no zealot who is going to sit here and push religion down your throat. I'm merely a person who saw your question and it brought back a strong memory of a "wake-up" point to more logical thinking.
I was raised Christian and was spending the night at my cousin's house. I was in third grade. I had woken up from a dead sleep with a BIG thought. At the time I genuinely believed it was the biggest thought I had ever had. My thought was "Jews don't go to hell". Keep in mind that up until this point it had been drilled into me that Christianty was the only path to heaven yet...Jews believed in Jesus and God as well only in a different way. It didn't make sense that a loving God would send them to hell and if God wasn't a loving God then everything I knew was wrong.
I woke my cousin up and tried to tell her about my epiphany but she just told me I was wrong. No discussion. She couldn't debate me, but I was just WRONG. This pushed it even more. That was the beginning.
I've been through all ends of the specturm. I have come out with a respect for all people no matter what they believe. Your question just reminded me of that and of how big a moment that was to realize that maybe, just maybe, things weren't quite what they seemed and there were more versions of the story than just the one I had been told.
2006-10-23 01:39:30 · answer #2 · answered by A.R. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was no single point for me. It was simply a gradual shift. One day I realized I had become an atheist, but it was more of a process than a catharsis.
The three things that most influenced my change were:
- actually reading the Bible a few times
- reading several books by people like Lee Strobel, Henk Hennegraf, etc, and finding the arguments sickeningly weak
- and finally permitting myself to listen to dissenting arguments including people like me (the current me) on the internet, as well as secular books that refuted Biblical claims
Each of these moved me a bit toward atheism.
2006-10-23 01:36:13 · answer #3 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was no specific moment but after 12 years as an inmate of faith schools I realised that the people around me were living an intellectually dishonest life.
2006-10-23 01:31:23 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Honestly, it wasn't for scientific reasons, I just never understood love of God. I mean, why was I supposed to feel loved when others don't feel so loved? It's not fair.
2006-10-23 01:32:47 · answer #5 · answered by Asilos Magdalena 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reading the bible.
all the contradictions and myths..
then reading the Quran sealed the deal..
Now, I can't believe I fell for all that one day!
2006-10-23 01:32:10 · answer #6 · answered by Lizzyyyy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
GENESIS 1:1 woke me up.
2006-10-23 01:30:39 · answer #7 · answered by Evil Atheist Conspirator 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋