Atheist, why won't you give God a try? What happened?

Question

Did something happen in you life that made you denounce God?

Answer 1

The bit that really ticked me off with GOD is the fact that he was "supposed" to have made man in his own image. Therefore GOD made rapists, child abusers, murderers, wife and husband beaters. So GOD must be all of these things if he made them.

At that point I ducked out..... what a load of BS.......!

Answer 2

Well, his not existing is enough for me.

You can't simply believe in something. To denounce God is to acknowledge him, so, by definition, atheists simply cannot denounce God.

To put it another way, why won't you give leprechauns a try? They're decent folk. Did something happen with a rainbow that made you denounce leprechauns?

That statement is awkward. Why? Because you don't believe in leprechauns (I'm guessing). So, you don't hate them; you just don't acknowledge they exist.

Same thing with God. If I had a good reason to believe that God exists, I'd do it in a heartbeat. In fact, any atheist would, because to know that God exists pretty much precludes atheism.

Edit: And yes, sassinya, I'm aware of Pascal's Wager. So, if Allah is right, then the Muslims will be the ones that are happy and YIKES for you. It cuts both ways.

Answer 3

Do you understand what the word Atheist means?

It means we have no belief in your, or any other, gods.

That makes it very silly sounding for you to ask if we denounced something we know to be make believe.

So, why don't you give the Invisible Pink Unicorn a try? Did something happen to make you hate her?

Answer 4

I did give God a try, I was raised a Catholic. My interest in science and logic and my religion teachers inability to answer any challenging questions was what convinced me that God is a fable. I was repeatedly asked not to participate in religion class because of the questions I posed. Now does that sound like something your "God" would condone? I was only a kid and could not understand why I was in trouble.
Any "True God" would not wish to be worshipped. He would want what's best for his people without anything in return. Do you really believe God wants us to shun people who have a different sexual orientation or different beliefs? I think that's why Atheists are better people, we don't have these misconceived notions about what is acceptable in this world.

Answer 5

I did give god a try for a while. I prayed for things to happen, and for things to not happen. I realized that the results were a 50/50 split. Then I started to pray that things would just happen as god allowed. Know what? Something happened! I had increased my odds of success to 100% and relieved myself of 100% of the responsibility! I decided to go back to atheism because unverifiable causes and unaccountability for one's actions are a poor way to lead a rational life.

Answer 6

I don't denounce non-existent beings, I just lack belief in them. Why don't you give purple unicorns a try, then tell the rest of us what happened. And then you will also have your answer for other mythical creatures such as gods.

By the way what happened in your life to make you denounce Purple Unicorns?

Answer 7

Yes. I learned the anthropological explanation for the evolution of religion, the psychoneurological basis for the experience of spiritual and religious sensations, the computability of everything in the universe via naturalistic principles.

After all that, it was just plain illogical to continue to believe in something that was probably little more than a hallucination that got written about and passed on by people with a desire to believe anything to avoid facing the fact we all die.

If you mean, "did someone hurt you or didn't your prayers get answered," no, it was nothing of the sort. Just got too smart for the old magic-guy-in-the-sky thing to work as an answer.

Answer 8

This is only the 100th time this question has been asked. I'm not angry at your god. I'm not "denouncing" him like a 5 year old child. I just don't believe in your god. Nothing happened except for my logical brain thinks its idiotic.

Answer 9

My father's death when I was 9 and the Born Again Christian who told me that he must have done something awful to have been taken so young and was now burning in Hell had a lot to do with me turning away from the Christian concept of "God".

There were also way too many questions that didn't have answers other than "Because the Bible says so."

I went from Christian to Atheist to Agnostic to Pagan, and have finally found a relationship with the Divine that is spiritually fulfilling for me.

Answer 10

That implies that all atheists were once believers, which is untrue.

Take me for example... I've NEVER been a theist which is amazing since my entire family is Christian/Catholic. Ironically, I did believe in Santa Claus at least, but never their god or any other god.

Why do I still "denounce" (change that to "have no belief in" or "lack belief in") your god? Mainly it's because there's no evidence at all. That's what it all boils down to.

Answer 11

i gave God a try and it's the best thing that has ever happened to me.

as for the folk who are saying "why should i believe in something that has no evidence-" there is evidence. evidence in the sky, the trees, the universe, the stars. how do you think anything came to be? what amazes me are eucharistic miracles and signal graces. Everyone has their own time to discover what their destiny whether it be in Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Paganism, or I suppose for many atheism but if everyone could just stay open minded they would all end up where they should be.