please only answer if you are or where an atheist.
2007-01-14 14:34:00 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
my story as to why i chose atheism is just too long to put in here :)
Atheist~
2007-01-14 14:38:00 · update #1
There is no reason to believe otherwise. In looking at history, science, and religion... the answers are clear. God was created by early humans to explain what they could not understand. There was once a need by humans for a "god." But, we need not perpetuate the myth any longer. No Santa, no tooth fairy, no easter bunny, and if you're all grown up... no need to imagine a god.
2007-01-14 14:36:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 3⤋
I was raised Southern Baptist. Always questioned starting around 12-13...got in trouble in Sunday School for arguing with my teacher. As I got older and really started studying the bible, I just couldn't get the sense that it was real. This plagued me for years. I tried so hard to live my life as a good christian. I even tried other flavors of christianity, but nothing made me feel that god existed. So by process of elimination, I decided that I was an atheist. It was the most enlightening experience ever. I felt as though a weight had been lifted from me. I am truly happier than I ever was.
*I copied this from a previous question I had answered.*
2007-01-14 14:41:57 · answer #2 · answered by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I didn't actually choose to be, but I was taking a lot of science classes and around the age of sixteen realized that Bible stories didn't exactly add up, in light of what we now know about the world and the universe.
Science as whole tends to cast serious doubt on the existence of a God, but there could be one nevertheless; though it's unlikely that it's the kind of God that Christians imagine.
It would likely be a much larger and more rational God, and a more scientific God, and one that doesn't condemn to Hell most of the souls that he himself created.
2007-01-14 14:48:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the catholics are hypocrites, The born again christians are hypocrites, All of the other religions are all basically the same rhetoric. The only religion if any worth reading into would be buddhism. Other than that I do not believe there is a
God. Human's make their own choices. There is no will of god.
2007-01-14 14:41:00 · answer #4 · answered by Gettin_by 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well im sure some people have very interesting stories about why they choose to be atheist...some maybe to personal to be posted in a random site like yahoo answers. or you can just look at the scientific proof/facts about life and its origin and it will make sense a little more then the entire mass of human population [with a huge variety of races] coming from a middle eastern guy named noah and his wife. [noah because flood that killed everyone]. or if you ask questions like "3rd world countries...starving children...diseased children....suffering....ultimate being that created and loves us not doing anything about this?? what kind of ultimate being would allow this??" or you can ask "millions of people on earth...hundreds of different religions...how many religious wars in human history have we had just over religion?? like the war we are in today." or how about "many of my loved ones going to hell just because they dont believe in a middle eastern guy named jesus?? what the heck does jesus have to to with asain people???" [im asian and some family members have other loved ones are also non believers and asain]. i mean if you think about....what does jesus have to do with other cultures?? what about back then when people didnt even know places like hawaii ever existed? so they go to hell just because they never heard of a guy named jesus?? gee isnt that fair, just, and loving.
yeah reasons like that.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/rel_hate.htm
heres a link to hate because of religion. kinda scary...ESP if you visit thier hate mail section. after i read some of the hate mail it REALLY made me not want to go back into religion. EVER.
2007-01-14 14:47:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I started looking analytically at the christian beliefs. Then I started aking questions which were not answered (sort of like on here).
I then realised that the core beliefs of established christianity were a parody of what christ taught and that it was time to start my search for the truth. I developed a philosophy and found after many years, that it was consistent with Buddhism
2007-01-14 14:39:19 · answer #6 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Raised religious. Had a small amount of doubt. I learned about other religions. I thought they were ridiculous went back to learn more about mine and realized it was no different. The more I learn the stronger my atheism gets.
2007-01-14 14:42:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I will answer for my wife.
Her father was a beater.
She prayed to God for intervention. Nothing happened.
She turned to the ministers of her faith. They declined to get involved with a "private matter"
She worked up her courage and fought back against her father.
To her thinking, there was no God, people who belief in Him are fools and you can only trust in yourself.
2007-01-14 14:53:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
many many many things. for one thing i need somthing tangible to believe in. something with proof, and a growing tree and a crying baby doesnt do it for me. love and every other emotion is just a series of electro-chemical reactions. and theres the thing that i dont like the feeling of not being in control of my destiny and half-baked or hollow answers to certain questions that ive asked.
2007-01-14 14:55:34 · answer #9 · answered by god_of_the_accursed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was about 16, I was searching for answers. So I read the Bible. This caused me to turn venomously atheistic...
2007-01-14 14:42:45 · answer #10 · answered by Mr. NoneofYourbusiness 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I am an atheist because I have a skeptical nature, and I don't believe in god(s) or the supernatural. I believe that religious faith is delusional thinking, and that organized religion is harmful to people and society.
2007-01-14 14:39:15 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋