Just curious. I'm not but I'd like to understand my fellow humans...
2006-12-26 06:00:06 · 29 answers · asked by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am a Christian However, I been experiencing King James only Baptist people and I can see why people become athiests because I almost was made one just recently the way my father in law is about woman not Preachers and woman wearing dresses and Only King James Bible is true word of God. With this way of talking you will get someone to distance themself from thechurch. Also telling them what to celebrate and how to celebrate and stuff.
2006-12-26 06:23:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It happened as I reached the "age of reason" (starting at 13) and accelerated the more I thought about how illogical and improbable all the dogma was (I was raised christian). Also, I saw much hypocrisy and inconsistency in the priests and other believers, early on, which started the ball rolling.
It's been decades now, and several people keep asking when I'll "see the light" (lol! As if getting older is supposed to "scare" me into believing!)...but all that happens is that the idea of a supreme being or "intelligence" or "creator", seems even MORE unreasonable than it ever did!
Also, I'm much happier as an atheist than I EVER was as part of the church! I have studied many other religions and felt the same. In hard times, I find comfort in my family, friends and nature, among other things. Only Buddhism and some Judaism make any sense to me, but nothing regarding a "god" or gods.
Hope this helps your quest for answers.
Watch now: I didn't trash ANYONE, but let's start racking up those nasty replies and thumbs down!
NOTE: Good points by all those who said that people are not BORN believing in anything! See? Atheists ARE smart!
2006-12-26 14:14:22 · answer #2 · answered by Gwynneth Of Olwen 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I see the world through logic not faith. I can have faith in almost anything I can think of, that doesn't make it real. I never was turned into an athiest either, I never was into the god idea at all. Also I don't need religion to help me through life. Never will and should I have a rough patch in my life I would rely on friends who are actuall alive and around me, people that can actually do something good to help me.
Praying is useless. If it "works" then it is coincidence and if it doesn't then its "god's plan". Religion and god has so many flaws its clearly human made. I'm also not a follower.
Sadly I'm also conservative but all my fellow conservatives seem to be religious so either way I'm screwed.
2006-12-26 14:22:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just curious.....
Why does it matter to anyone else but the person in question?
Why is it so important for anyone to worry about someone else's beliefs and concerns?
I used to be an Atheist..... and I am not Christian by a long shot.
Modern religious views and practices combined with a review on exactly how people have been subjugated and exterminated in the pursuit of Christian Happiness has soured me on ever being a Christian again.
In the Virgin Islands alone.... six million Native American, (non-Christian) Virgin Islanders died at the hands of the Spanish Christians over less then a 30 year time span. African slaves had to be brought in because all six tribes were wiped off the island completely.
The 'Christian' cry of the day?
The lived as pagan, godless, beasts........ but we cleansed their souls and they went on to a better life with God.
~~~~How 'Humane'~~~~
No swords these days...... but plenty of rhetoric still.....
2006-12-26 14:12:42 · answer #4 · answered by wolf560 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I began to learn about science, psychology, and history.
History showed that many people have believed in many different gods and godesses over time with all their heart and then the culture later abandons them. There is no ONE god or set of gods that will stick for anymore than a few thousand years. also things that have happened in history by religous people or by religous influence are usually seem to be the most far-fetched and evil things.
Psychology helped understand how the religion brings people under their indoctrination by playing on emotions like hope and fear. I'm guessing the people who made the boundaries of the religions don't believe it and have a pretty good understanding of psychology themselves.
Science means understanding the world around us. People have gotten much better at this within the last century and were beginning to find things out that give better explanations for existance than 'god did it.'
That, and the fact the idea of god makes no logical sense if you think about it for more than 5 mins just ties it all together.
2006-12-26 14:09:33 · answer #5 · answered by Poo 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Comparative Theology 101 and 102
2006-12-26 14:08:03 · answer #6 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because I realised the church hinders but does not help. I recognised the mind control it puts us through and I refuse to listen to it's dogma. And I refuse to be condemned as a 'sinner' for my sexual preference, especially from a book thrown out with the old dishwater (leviticus).
Some of it is the followers of the religion and some of it is the way that my former religion, christianity contradicts itself. As a philosopher it is my duty to seek the truth and to fully understand. With christianity there is no logic, it's worship or be cast to hell. If you question you are `not fit to inherit the kingdom of heaven`. Christianity is there to dumb down the populace into believing it _without question_. And I object to that.
Atheists aren't bigoted enough to expect everyone to fly with their ideas, but the fundamentalist christians make enough noise in their corner of church to cause havoc.
2006-12-26 14:09:45 · answer #7 · answered by Modern Jesus 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well i'm agnostic as there's not enough evidence to prove or disprove the existence of any sort of higher being and reading scriptures just leaves me unsatisfied as there are so many things that are just unrealistic anyway i guess i've always been skeptical about the existence of a higher being even though i've gone to church and was a protestant and a catholic and i've read the qu'ran and studied different religions and will continue to study different possibilities and religions again and again
2006-12-26 14:15:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was atheist for a bit, when I had nothing else to turn to except myself. I learned I could listen to myself, not something I can't see. I learned that life is learned and wisdom is gained perfectly fine without the need for god.
2006-12-26 14:08:46 · answer #9 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I was 7 my dog had puppies and they were all deformed and they all died and that's what started it- I didn't understand how a compassionate god would do that but I learned about natural selection and science and it made sense. I've been open minded to learning about people's beliefs I just can't believe them. Your god comforts you, understanding science comforts me..... That's all there is to it.
2006-12-26 14:29:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋