2007-01-15 10:15:25 · 23 answers · asked by chack 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You don't become Atheist . You become religious
2007-01-15 10:18:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I became an agnostic based on growing up religious, exploring several other religions & still not finding any answers that made any sense. The eastern religions came the closest to making some kind of sense. I can't deny that there's some kind of a life force in the universe.
2007-01-15 10:20:24 · answer #2 · answered by shermynewstart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was born an Atheist (as every other human being was). I just chose not to adopt a blind belief in a non-existing creature.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Sorry, but there are explanations about life, the Universe and nature far more plausible than a 'magical force' creating things from scratch.
That is something only idiots believe. I know better.
2007-01-15 10:22:16 · answer #3 · answered by Malcolm Knoxville 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no reason to become an atheist based on evolution, at all. Pope John Paul II held an evolutionist view and he couldn't really be said to be an atheist now, could he?
2007-01-15 10:19:21 · answer #4 · answered by anthonypaullloyd 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I became atheist because the Bible didn't make sense to me; in essence, I didn't feel in my gut that it was true. Through lots of study, now I'm sure that it's not true. I explored lots of different religions and came to the conclusion that none of them were true, either. I was agnostic for awhile, then became a paramedic. I've seen lots of things that changed who I am, and now I'm sure that there is no God. It helps that evolution makes so much more sense.
2007-01-15 10:26:05 · answer #5 · answered by rita_alabama 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist because I'm without belief in the existence of gods. That's it. Everything else I believe, accept, etc. is up to me. There are no universal atheist views on evolution or religion.
2007-01-15 10:17:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
A belief in evolution doesn't necessarily argue a point against the existence of God (or Gods). What evolution conflicts with is a literal fundamentalist belief in the creation myth(s). I believe in God and evolution.
2007-01-15 10:27:00 · answer #7 · answered by stupidity_of_pride 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I liked things to make sense, religion just has too many answers that make no sense or avoids questions with the same answers that get no further to what I considered truth. It was from this that i developed my own oppinions that corellated to atheism quite closely that Gods such as those in Christian religion do not exist.
2007-01-15 10:22:18 · answer #8 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No One would deny that there are religions, so it must be evolution of the mind.
2007-01-15 10:20:00 · answer #9 · answered by metoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello =)
Neither....
You become an Atheist by introspection, observation, and conclusion. When one fails to see the hand of God within one's self, one's surroundings, and within one's life, one draws the conclusion that either God does not exist, or that he does exist but hates you. Since Everyone says that God loves everyone, the latter must be rejected out of hand, and therefore, you are left with the only remaining possibility, that God does not exist.
Namaste,
--Tom
2007-01-15 10:20:00 · answer #10 · answered by glassnegman 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I became an atheist in part due to a good education, and a curious mind.
Religion is the enemy of free thought.
2007-01-15 10:21:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋