People who don't believe in God.?

Question

Explain why you don't and if you were raised that way. What made you change?

If you were raised to believe in God....what made you change your mind that now you don't believe?

Athiests-this is who my question is directed to.

Answer 1

i personally believe in God. i was raised that way and will always be that way. I LOVE God! He is awesome and nothing could ever come between God and i. sometimes it's hard to praise God in bad times, but with me personally, with whatever problem i have i know the problem is never to big for God, and He is always with me no matter what. God will always see me through all the storms in my life, and i will praise Him all the way through and after.

Answer 2

I was raised Christian and believed unconditionally until I was in my teens. I had many questions about things from the Bible and started reading some Biblical scholarship. From this, some of the unreasonable apologetics, and studying world religion I decided to no longer be Christian by the time I was in college. I still tended to believe in some form of universal Deity and that all the world religions were just imperfect human attempts to understand.

I majored in biology in college and took the pre-med program. I have no doubt in things like evolution by natural selection. I am not dogmatic in that I think our understanding of how evolution occurs and is occuring will undergo many changes as we learn more but the fact that it happened is pretty conclusive to me. I know that many religions accept science and evolution but the more I learned the more I saw that there were more logical and natural explanations for the world and the religious ones seemed more fantastic and completely unsupported.

I don't believe a man ever rose from the dead after three days, nor that a virgin got pregnant, things even the moderate Christian believers must embrace to be Christian. I am a happy, successful, productive person. I think I am a moral person although the way I look at morality differs from that of some Christians.For instance, I don't think there is neccesarily anything dirty or sinful about sex even if you aren't married to someone. It depends on how you conduct yourself.

I don't have a problem living with people who are Christian or of any particular religion so long as they aren't having a problem with me, trying to legislate laws based on thier beliefs that I don't share, or persistently trying to convert me.

Answer 3

Why don't I believe in God? Because I have not heard or seen any reason to believe in such a load of BS.
I wasn't raised this way, I was raised to believe in God and to follow the Christian faith, Being 'raised' that way didn't work did it?
There comes a time in life when we all have to make our own decisions, mine was just based on logic! It didn't take very long to work out.
I know that there is no way I could ever convince any believer that they were wrong, and there is certainly no way at all that a believer could convince me that I am wrong.
I am 100% atheist, but I have no objection to anyone else believing in God.
I do (often) object to all religions and the various 'leaders' and 'teachers'. By all means believe in God, why do you need religon to do that? Why do you need to get right in my face to do that? Why do you have to kill other groups that also believe in God but have different religious 'leaders' and 'teachers'?

Answer 4

I was raised to be Catholic. My dad is an Athiest.

I stopped believing, or doubting, the existance of a higher being when I entered highschool and especially since I've been in University. I've been educated in the scientific realm and have become very cynical about why religion was created. I dunno.
I'm not an athiest. I'm agnostic.

Answer 5

~~~ Felicia,,,,My intellect did not really begin to mature until my soph. yr. at a Junioir Coll. ,,, until then I was a quiet, humble, local superstar athlete who had aspirations at the Pro level. Yet I denounced the christian church, respectfully, to my parents at age 17,,, only because my intuition dictated that I "knew" there was more ,,,Like a spark lighting a fire within, I became a voracious reader of the Great Thinkers of Mankind, not just from the West. I am Scandanavian/West.Euro by decent but was raised in a Multi Racial Family of Polynesian(Hawaiian)/Asian mix. I have been the only white kid in town, in the 1950's Hawaii,, and lived in Japan during age 11-12. Being schooled as a young boy by my Asian Uncles in the Japanese/Chinese Martial Arts, using their Ancient Knowledge and Understanding of what they refer to as The Universal Life Force, called Ki,,, Chi,,,or Qi,,,Which comes directly from the "god source", etc. I was taught by the East that 'god'(buddha) is inherent in ALL things but most prominent in Human Beings. The West taught me how they no longer heed The Message, but have externalized god from the human(flesh/material) and now worship The Symbols, with the only possible way to Salvation as an acceptance of strict Dogma. My subsequent studies of Comparitive Religion & Mythology, which clearly lays out the Evolution of Mankind's Spiritual Developement, gave me the intellectual Understanding. The Rites, Ceremonials, Rituals, and Iconography are no longer Mysteries of The Church(Divine). Knowledge is Enlightenment

Answer 6

I don't believe we can ever prove one way or the other if there is a god or not. I believe this way because it seems the most logical, as I have seen no real compelling evidence for either side. I was raised Christian, but when I first read the bible I came to find that if was not something I could make myself believe in.

Answer 7

When I was a kid I went to church, and I really liked the sign on the wall that read, "God is Love."

Then I started to read the Bible, and in shock and dismay I read about an angry, murderous, misogynist, spoiled brat of a deity who is in seeeerrrrious need of a time-out. Or a spanking, for preference.

I could not reconcile the two in my head, and I decided that I really believe in Love over anything the Bible had to say. So, when the two clashed, the Bible lost. Later studies of the history of the Bible confirmed my hunch that it was a man-made document and not divine.

Over the years, my study of religions made me start to think that people's religious experiences had some interesting things in common... and perhaps all the personification of deities are mere metaphors for something bigger even than 'God', and are well-meaning but misguided attempts to define something indefinable.

So THAT's what I really believe in... not a deity and most certainly not the Christian deity, but something more abstract.

Answer 8

I have never regularly attended church. When I was young, we tried for a little while, but my parents, my sister and I were happier to stay home on sunday and eat pancakes and watch bugs bunny. Those sundays are some of my fondest memories. To answer your question though, I've never been religious. No person has ever told me how to believe. I had to figure it out on my own. I had to figure it out for myself, and what I've come up with is this: Could there possibly be a god? Of course. It's not resonable to reject god outright. I simply don't know. That said, do I believe there's a god? I don't. It's simply a matter of what you believe to be truth. I hope that answer works...

Answer 9

It's unreasonable to believe one god created everything in 6 days, then needed a rest on the seventh. And then he doesn't give enough evidence to his existance, makes a bunch of mistakes in the bible, kills people, etc...And I should worship him. I was raised to be a normal christian kid, not the biggest thing in my life but I liked sunday school. I'm polytheistic now. Why? I believe there are multiple gods. I'm not subject to them, but Once I start practicing It'll be like a two way street, instead of giving everything to the god and nothing to the worshipper.

Answer 10

I was raised in the Christian religion.

When I was a teenager I started to study it for myself.

I began to realize hey this God is brutal and need I say EVIL!

What makes this God evil?

Genesis 2:17 knowledge of good and evil is forbidden!
It was also taught that the serpent lied however it was this God that lied. He said IN THE DAY they ate they'd die.
The serpent said IN THE DAY too but he said that God knows you shall be as gods knowing good and evil.
Genesis 3:22 GOD ADMITS MAN HAS BECOME AS ONE OF US KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL! GOD ADMITS HE IS A LIAR!
John 10:34 Jesus said is it not written in the law i have said ye are gods.
Psalms 82:6 ye are gods.

Then we have the bible God calling every living thing wicked & evil in Genesis 6:5. However the law didn't exist until Moses!
However the law of a law to establish who is good and who is evil doesn't stop this God from killing god knows how many in the flood!
Then this God says find ten righteous in Sodom and Gomorrah. HOW DO YOU FIND ANY WITHOUT A LAW TO ESTABLISH WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS EVIL???? GOD SET THOSE PEOPLE UP TO DIE!

Then the absolute kicker is Egypt! Exodus 11: 4 - 5 GOD SLAUGHTERS CHILDREN! NOT THE ADULTS BUT CHILDREN! HE ALSO DOES THIS WITHOUT A LAW!

ROMANS 7:7 I KNEW NOT SIN BUT BY THE LAW!

For this God to then say DO NOT KILL is an absolute joke! Considering how much he has been killing he is the last one that should tell anyone do not kill!

NOW AM I TO BELIEVE A GOD LIKE THIS EXISTS?
AND IF HE DOES EXIST AM I SUSPOSED TO LOVE HIM?

DO YOU LOVE HITLER???? AFTER ALL THIS GOD MAKES HITLER LOOK LIKE A SAINT!

Answer 11

I was born into a Lutheran family and attended a Lutheran school from K - 8.

I was a fairly strong believer until at one particularly dark time in my life, I asked "god" for help and heard nothing.

I then began to study and read everything I could to strengthen my shaken faith, after a few years I awoke a walked into the light of atheism.

My life has been so much better since...