a question for atheists? What led you to the conclusion that there was no god?

Question

Was it an experience? SOemthing that you just felt. Or was it from research, and scientific process. I was just wondering?
feel free to elaborate. I wish you well

no jp it is a way of saying regardless of what , or how you believe, I still see you as a person who deserves to be respected.
And again I wish you well

Answer 1

I'm probably more of an agnostic...though I think I think like an atheist. There is just enough evidence *for* every major religion and every major god that leads me to suspect they are all equally either true or false. People just seem to have a much easier time accepting "I think they're all equally false" than they do "I think they're all equally true"...which is probably closer to what I believe, but as to why that's less acceptable, I know not.

For me, mostly research. More philosophy than science--as anyone who reads my answers a lot knows, Feuerbach was a major influence on me (and that also comes from being an anthropology type). I was raised in the Christian church, but when I couldn't get my questions answered there, I turned elsewhere. That research led me to where I am today.

Answer 2

It is from knowing how things work in a PROVEN SCIENTIFIC way.

IT is also because I, personally, do not and will not devote my whole life to something I can not measure and test.

I can believe that there is some sort of higher power, but I trust the it is more likely in some energy force within the cosmos IF ANYTHING.

I guess that does not make me an atheist though, does it?

I hate the way you say "I wish you well" as though you are already criticizing what people will say as a rebuttal BEFORE they even say it.

Answer 3

Reading the Bible is a good start - and then the Problem of Evil leaves out without either an all-powerful God, or an all-loving God (they are mutually exclusive when taken in context with our world).

Answer 4

I think that most people find it out as a way to be original ( young people ) or just don't like when somebody is telling them "This is the ultimate truth and you can't change it". I don't think of myself as atheist, i have my own little religion - I believe that there is something "big and powerful, maybe almighty" but i dunno if it's Jawed, Jah, Buddha, Christ, Satan or whatever. There are to many religions to tell which is true ( establishing that one of them is ). My opinion is:
- something created everything ( sounds cool )
- there must be reason why we are so inteligent, ewolution would made horses, camels and pandas talk like us.

Sorry if i made grammar mistakes - My English isn't perfect.

Answer 5

Education and a lack of evidence for any gods. I'm also glad I'm not associated with the people who call themselves believers these days. Spiteful, corrupt, dishonest and hypocritcal.

Answer 6

The non-existence of something results in the non-existence of any evidence supporting the existence of that something.

Therefore it would be more a case of the LACK of something leading to the conclusion that god is a construct of people who don't think rationally.

Answer 7

It became evident in my education that MAN created GOD. Don't you think so? Really? What good has come of it? Religious wars? Terrorism? Hate?

Answer 8

Education, but I do believe in a God, I just dont know what that is yet

Answer 9

Common sense.

Answer 10

Just boredom with church.
I wasn't something that I could be positive about, but something that I could ignore.