Ex-Christian atheists, did you go through a period where you thought it was just Biblegod who was fake?

Question

Or did you just figure if one is fake they all are.

Did you to every explore other religions and/or become agnostic before becoming an atheist?

Answer 1

I wonder how many answers you'll get to this question, it seems to me that most atheists wouldn't like to admit they were ever foolish enough to believe in the first place.
Myself, I first tried christianity, then when that wasn't working (too many questions & inconsistencies) I figured I was an atheist, but that didn't work for me either, because I just "knew" there was a God.......so I did a lot of researching into different beliefs, then I found what fits, I am now a believer but not christian.

Answer 2

I read a lot of Greek, Egyptian and Norse mythology in school (on my own time, it wasn't on the curriculum) and noticed how similar all the stories were. It was blindingly obvious that if any of these deities and human-deity hybrids were myths, then all of them must be myths, including the Christian one.

I would have been about twelve or fourteen then. And no, I never felt the need to explore other religions -- I figured why should I bother when after all, the ancient gods had their turn and were now gone, so the current god(s) will no doubt be replaced some day, therefore I'd only be wasting my time.

Answer 3

I'm an atheist now but was a Christian until I was about 15. As a child I just blindly went along with what my parents and teachers taught me about God. I didn't find out that not everyone believed in God until I was 11, at which time I started to have doubts.

I stopped believing in God when I realised how illogical it was and figured out all the ambiguities behind it, such as do cavemen and dead skin cells go to heaven.

I didn't explore any other religions.

Answer 4

I've never been a Christian (except when I was a child and forced to be), but at one time I did consider myself an Atheist. However, sometime after high school I started exploring other religions. I'm not convinced that any of them are true, but I do believe in a divine being. I just don't believe that we have to worship it, or even that we should worship it.

Answer 5

It became clear to me by the time I was eight years old that the bible could not be reconciled with science, and since science is obviously correct (it works!), the bible had to go. But religion is a pervasive influence throughout the world, and if one is going to understand the human condition, religion must be studied. I spent five years in Saudi Arabia, and used that occasion to study Islam quite closely. As one must do with any purported knowledge, I looked for errors, and found some, one of them so serious that it has been devastating for Islamic society. My conclusion after all this is that all religion is nonsense; if any of it could be supported by objective data, it would no longer be religion -- it would be established fact.

Answer 6

I explored all sorts of religions on my way to my current mode of thinking.

I was certainly agnostic before atheist.

I never really felt biblegod was any different from any other god; just different names for the same thing.

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Answer 7

Mine went like this. Christian, agnostic, atheist, then I figured out that it was just the bible god that was fake. Now I'm agnostic again.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 8

First and for most the bible god, then not too long after that, all the others. I did explore a few different religions, Satanism, Buddhism, Taoism, Wicca, Heathery just to name a few.

Answer 9

Even though I have had very strong emotional experiences that I could probably take as "proof" god exists, I choose not to believe in god because I find the idea that humanity should worship its unseen and frankly rather bonkers creator offensive, along with most religious morals.

I tried the god thing and I didn't get anywhere. I couldn't willingly delude myself that what I was praticing and being told wasn't nonsense.

Since becoming an atheist, I've researched philosphies, finally settling on the laveyan neodarwinian satanist doctrine, which promotes the self, rather than obedience and conformity.

Answer 10

I never considered other gods or religions. It wasn't like was an atheist one day -- it was gradual. Like slowly waking up to reality.