Are the any atheists that once were real and fervent Chirstians and then abandoned their faith?
1. Why would you say you were a real christian?
2. Why did you become an atheist?
2007-01-20 02:25:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'd hate to tell you but MOST of them were born into Christianity....
"real and fervent", that is a relative term.
I would say I was a real Catholic when I went to Catholic school for 8 years.
I believed pretty steadfastly, though I had my doubts, LIKE YOU ALL DO> there is no escaping it, you have a reasoning mind.
"real" Christian? I'm assuming you are born again? Yeah, I got turned on to that born again thing during an acid trip but it wore off after a few weeks.
Why did I become an atheist? My intelligence eventually overpowered the superstitious bullcrap instilled in me as a youth.
2007-01-20 02:34:21 · answer #1 · answered by janesweetjane 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I count myself in this category.
As a child, I was truly a devout Christian. I was an altar boy, I studied the bible regularly, I volunteered for Christian fellowships, etc.
Around the age of ten, I began questioning the specific rituals and practices of my denomination. I was an atheist by about thirteen. There was no one particular event that made me lose my faith. As I got older and thought more about it, religion just seemed to make much less sense to me.
Currently, I'm agnostic (or negative atheist, if you prefer) and try to base my beliefs on evidence and probabilities. This philosophy has worked well for me for many years now.
2007-01-20 02:34:54 · answer #2 · answered by marbledog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wonder if an agnostic might be permitted to respond.
At one point in my life I was preparing to enter the priesthood. I suspect, in hindsight, that was because I had pretty profound doubts and was tryihg to power my way through it by sheer will.
The questions persisted and persist. What has changed is that I have come to believe (there's that word!) that we cannot know the absolute truth as to whether God exists or not.
We live not knowing. Some of us, through immersion, or self-persuasion, become "certain" that what we believe is correct, and tend to defend that belief to such extreme lengths as burning those who believe something else at the stake.
My own point of view is that it would be more effective for us all to admit that none of us knows "the truth," and that we're all trying to find it together. Perhaps we'd become more cooperative.
2007-01-20 03:00:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No ive never been religious. Many people are not raised in religious belief anymore like myself. Anything ive wanted to know about it ive just learned myself such as on this site. I'm interested more in Buddhism and the old Greek and Roman religions though.
2007-01-20 02:34:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I am, but the list and circumstances would take to long to describe here. In short, I was a christian for 40 years, (and a DEVOUT one, also, I even taught c.c.d. classes and was very active in the church), and ironically, that, (and many other circumstances) is what lead me to think of catholism and christianity as "overated" and contradictory. The rest of my journey to Atheism is long and boring (not to me,tho!) but so worth it! I'm happy and glad to be here. The secret to a happy life is "Never stop asking questions"....(I think Einstein said that!)
2007-01-20 02:35:50 · answer #5 · answered by INDRAG? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wasn't "fervent" but as a child I went for a few years and got baptized and all that.
Honestly it was simply because I was a child. By about age 13 i was bored with it. By high school I was seriously doubting. By college I was a practicing atheist.
main reason: science and my "logical" brain. It's as much genetics as environment.
2007-01-20 02:30:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I was a fake Catholic
I became an atheist when I stopped being a fake Catholic and went back to being the way I was when I was born - free of religion.
2007-01-20 02:29:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am reminded by a quote of M Scott Peck. He said that he does counselling and people who come in as atheist come out as believers and people who come in as believer leave as atheists... what do we make of that??
2007-01-20 02:55:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋