to all atheist?

Question

I am a christian and I want you to know that I believe that you have the right to believe what you want even though we disagree but I was just wandering when and what led to your decision to not believe in God and I also wanted to know if you grew up with some sort of religion or not Please no harsh answers I am just wandering

sorry about the misspelled word I just caught that myself sometimes I type to fast for my own good

I am not asking this question because I am losing faith or anything like that I just like to insrease my knowledge about people thank you all for being good natured about this I get tired of seeing christians and atheist attacking each other on this site especially since the beliefs that I try to mold my life around call for me too love all people

betty boop I am not a wimp I just think that it is nice to have a peaceful conversation

Answer 1

I grew up in a Christian household, but I have always been an atheist. Not believing in God is really not that big of a deal - I don't believe in Zeus, Thor, Krishna, Isis, or any of the thousands of gods that were worshiped before the Bible was invented, either. Do you?

To me, the Bible is fiction and God is just a made-up character, just as you may consider "Peter Pan" to be fiction and Captain Hook to be a made-up character. Is it difficult for you to not believe in Captain Hook?

Even if God existed, I would still never be a Christian, because I consider drowning, sickening, and slaughtering entire populations, plus commanding people to kidnap, rape, torture, and kill others, is immoral and evil. There are hundreds of verses in the Bible where God does those heinous things, but unfortunately, most Christians have never read the whole book, and don't know what's really in it. Have you read the entire Bible? Do you believe it?

Thanks for being respectful enough to ASK (rather than assuming or believing the lies that some churches tell about atheists and other non-Christians), and also for acknowledging everyone's right to not share your beliefs. :)

Answer 2

I was raised in the Quaker Church, but I don't think I ever believed. I've grown to believe that religion is more of a comfort blanket of sorts to help people explain what they do not and can not know. Just stories to make us lead a "just" and "moral" life according to somebody else's interpretation if those terms. Every civilization has had it's own religion, all very differant while at the same time doing the same thing, attempting to be a sort of order and moral structure to the society. I don't believe in a god and I don't think I ever really did, but what really sealed the deal for me was going into the field of Emergency Services after getting out of school. I have seen many people die, and even a helped a few come back, I have seen children born and horrors beyond belief. I rest assured that we are alone here in our existence, nobody but each other and no time but now.

Answer 3

I was a Christian for decades. I went to college and learned that originally God was considered to be a women (aka, goddess). Religion hides the truth. God's gender was changed by new male dominant religions. I also learned that biblical people were very ignorant with an illiteracy rate of 99% yet we are supposed to believe a God concept that came from unlearned people who thought that the Earth was flat. My religion always had told me that God calls men to the priesthood. When it was revealed that so many were pedophiles. There is just too much knowledge that God did not create man but ancient man who created God. The only proof that God exists is because someone said so, nothing else. We are now hearing the threat, "Convert or die". If there really was a man living in a cloud don't you think that he would be involved with the religions, some who have gone completely out of control?

Answer 4

I was christian for 20 years. I studied much and prayed much so as to be more effective as a witness. I wanted to get people saved.Didn't have religious upbringing, however asked Jesus into my heart when I was 8 years old, so I must have gone to Sunday school at times.
when I was older I took the logical conclusion, if God is real I wanted to know him. So I read the bible and prayed daily. Jesus was my friend. I sacrificed my education for him. As I grew I studied more as I said all ready. I took the logical conclusions to bible teachings. I loved God so much that if he sent me to hell, I would have loved him there.
After much prayer and seeking I have realized that God is imaginary, and christianity cleverly creeps depression in to the believers lives. Even though I would have said "I know God personally". I listened to Keith Green (was a great christian artist). I liked him alot.
Love, kindness, tolerance is also inconsistent with christian doctrines (not all). Jesus is most like an ancient Greek Deity rather than a Jewish God.
I have to deal with real life, and a faith in the supernatural love of a great God is just in the way false and depressing hope.
There is no evidence to support the existence of this creator.
Evidence exists to prove the contrary
I have no idea if there really is a God or not. But it certainly isnt the one taught in the bible. I live like there isnt one.
Christianity encourages hopelessness in this life cleverly disguised as Hope in the next life.
"He who finds his life will lose it"
I didnt choose to be an atheist, I just finally realised, I design God.

Answer 5

I was raised Southern Baptist. I started having doubts, so I thought I would read the Bible Genesis to Revelations to shure up my beliefs. It turned out to have the opposite effect on me. It seemed like a fairy tale and the god of that book was by no means a god of love and mercy..quite the opposite actually. I then studied other religions briefly, but long enough to realize that they all require faith to believe. Somewhere along there I decided that whatever is true would be able to be held up to as much scrutiny you can throw at it and it would still seem true. Nothing that requires faith to believe can be held up to any scrutiny at all before it falls like a house of cards.

I just decided to require evidence and not let my emotions or fear cloud my judgment. I decided that intellectual honesty is the way to go. I decided that knowing the truth was more important to me than just believing what I wanted to believe was true.

I am now happier than I ever was as a Christian.

And before I get 10 emails telling me that I was never a Christian. I did feel the holy spirit when I was in church. I now get that same feeling that I got listening to rhythmic preaching and gospel music by relaxing and listening to certain kinds of music and from nature itself. Christians just call this feeling that everyone gets "the holy spirit" and think that they are special because of it.

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com - To see the Bible without rose colored glasses on.

Answer 6

Good for you to openly accept atheists. I am atheistic of the Christian God after a lot of thought and study. If you look at it from outside, which I did after I started doubting (due to wondering why God would send Ghandi to hell) you can really see that it doesn't make sense to believe in it, because there just isn't enough verifiable evidence. I could go into it more but I don't want you to feel like I'm attacking you, so I won't.
Anyway, once you step out of that box, it just opens your eyes man.
Honestly I don't think God if he existed would be mad at me for not believing, given as how he would have created me to be the way I am.
I just feel since there isn't reason for me to believe I can't. I mean you can't force yourself to believe something you don't believe.
And I feel that life is short and I should enjoy my free will. I don't like the thought of submitting myself to a group of people and what they say I should live my life like.

Answer 7

I grew up in the Catholic church, and went to Catholic school until I was in high school. I lost all belief in gods when I was in my late teens and early twenties. Science had better, more believable answers, and didn't go out of its way to scare money out of me. Most of the religious I met were hypocrites, bent on promoting hate and ignorance; scientists were real people focused on advancing knowledge and understanding. Religion stops at "It's Gods will;" science says "What else can we find out here?" Science was just more fun. And no guilt!

Answer 8

I was an inch away from letting go of God. My soul would not let go completely. It was a fanatic church, Assembly of God, that disgusted me with God. I was never a Christian, and I knew that I disagreed with these people before I ever walked in. A long story what got me there. Anyway, after seeing and hearing these idiots, I ran as fast as I could from God.

I believe that my soul remembers the other side before this life.

Answer 9

No harsh answers? What are you a wimp. I was baptized a Pentecostal Holiness when I was five and raised in that church until I became an Atheist at age sixteen. The Bible just didn't make sense to me and what little I knew of science did. So I am a Christian Atheist.

Answer 10

I believed in god for a time but finally logic and reasoning took over. I did not grow up with any religion. It was my decision to start believing in god and my decision to stop. My folks gave me the choice.
PS. Its wondering not wandering.