I stopped believing in high school while studying mythology... when did YOU stop believing in God?
2006-12-20 13:36:24 · 28 answers · asked by Whatever 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When I was 6 or 7 years old. Some event long forgotten now made me fall into an existential pit, and ponder the rationality of divine preordination and ontology... and when I emerged from that existential pit I became an atheist. And yes, 6-year-olds can philosophize too!
2006-12-20 17:40:25 · answer #1 · answered by =_= 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is not something that is stumbled on in the dark or in a blinding flash. To achieve rationality is a developmental process that has to overcome the mindless programming that has been shoved at you since childhood. I'm amazed that I started asking the right questions when I was eleven and even more amazed that I was able to take the "because" answers of religion with a jaundiced eye at such a young age. Still it took three more years before I called myself an agnostic and three hard years more before being able to call myself an Atheist. Happy about it? Sometimes I envy delusionalists who think they are going to end up in some cosmic Disneyland when they die, instead of the void on non-existence, but in the end, I'm happy I do not live in the delusional haze that seems to keep them anesthetized to reality.
I was an agnostic for three years, until I committed to rational thought 41 years ago on the way home from the last time I willfully entered a church.
2006-12-20 13:56:36 · answer #2 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The theory of evolution might give you a better grasp on reality, but it isn't going to stop you from believing in God. If you don't want to believe any more then look into criticism of Christianity, then look into skepticism and secular humanism to see how people live without belief in a god. It doesn't usually happen over night. It'll take some time. And you usually can't force it. You must let it happen on it's own.
2016-05-23 03:01:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never stopped believing in God and I never will. There HAS to be intelligent design. All this didn't just happen. Take a sincere look around you, the answer is soooo obvious, unpopular in our times, but still obvious.
2006-12-20 14:56:01 · answer #4 · answered by smcdevitt2001 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I never really believed in god and I didn't get in touch with my lack of believes until I was in high school.
2006-12-20 13:42:04 · answer #5 · answered by killeredith 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depends on which God you are talking about bean.
I stopped believing in the judgmental, punishing God in the 3rd grade.
I still believe in the unconditionally loving God.
Love and blessings Don
2006-12-20 13:39:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
In Seminary, 1978.
2006-12-20 13:42:34 · answer #7 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
My folks had four of us, but also "fostered" recently-orphaned kids from other countries temporarily (3-6 months) throughout my childhood. They were always delightful kids whose parents had died in an earthquake, or been killed during a coup, or drowned, or perished in a landslide; it didn't take me long to become a confirmed agnostic.
2006-12-20 13:40:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I stopped believing in the bible and the Christian concept of god when I was about 13. I became an Agnostic about 16 or 17.
2006-12-20 13:37:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
I was twelve, and studying religion in a catholic school. The next year I transferred to public school. Best choice I've ever made.
2006-12-20 13:45:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋