EX CHRISTIANS: Do you give up your faith easily, or was it a very difficult?

Question

please give some details thanks.

I ask because I want to see how many give up God because they didnt get what they wanted (As many christians claim is the case concerning ex christians)
Take your time to answer. Am not asking any other questions and will keep checking this one
thanks.
PS. If you have a de conversion testimony online please give me the site address. thanks.

That is meant to be "DID you ... "

It was initially very depressing for me to learn the truth. It was like literally having eternal life for so many years and one day having accidently left it at a train station, lost forever. It took many years of prayer and seeking truth for God to even get me to the stage of being more critical of my own views. And then it hit me while seeking, that God is more likely imaginary. It was quite scary at first, I thought I could actually feel the spirit of God leaving me. But I had to be honest with myself above all. And stay with the truth. Now its alot easier to deal with the death being the end thing etc.
Sometimes I wonder if some ex christians have forgotten the type of mindset they are talking to when they talk to christians. Belief in a personal relationship with God is a powerfull mental trip.

Answer 1

CJunk, I am a Christian and your feelings and views are very interesting to me. I am not a Christian who believes that anyone gave up belief in God because of not getting what they wanted. In fact, some of the answers here, including your own, confirm my belief that it was not only difficult but against the persons natural inclination to not believe in some higher power.

It also confirms my belief that for many atheist, atheism itself has become somewhat of a religion.

My belief that it is not so much God that has turned many of you off, as those who claim to represent him while commiting reprehensible acts and spouting self-righteous, unchristian, and unbiblical doctrines that have turned you against Him.

Answer 2

What exactly do you men by "ex-Christians"? I guess it would be non-church-goers. I stopped going to church around 1999, one Sunday at a time because I had to leave town every weekend then. I didn't have a plan to do so it just happened because I had a daughter who had moved to go to school in another city and I went there to help her settle down. As time went by, I just didn't fall back into the habit of going back to church and I didn't.
Now, I have the same doubts about so many world issues as I did before. There seem to be no satisfying explanations to such things as war, famine, poverty, hate, discrimination, murder, child abuse, etc. I know that God is sovereign, but why does all this have to happen? What do Christians do about all that except pray and sing? Compared to the primitive church, modern age church is greedy; only worrying about offerings and tithes; worshiping the almighty dollar. Watching all this hypocrisy has kept me outside.
My conversion testimony? Well, I just followed the stream of people and felt good while it lasted. The spell broke when I began observing how Christians behaved inside and outside of church. Now, it is so annoying when former brethren try to reach out to me that it just doesn't seem sincere on their behalf. Besides, I can say I feel all right as an ex-church-goer.
Active Christians cannot claim a thing about ex-church members' thoughts. They merely express their own incomformities because they probably think God is like an almighty fairy that grants wishes to people who go to church.
God is everywhere and you don't have to go to any temple or organization to worship or be blessed by HIM.

Answer 3

For a long time, I had a doubts that I never spoke about because I had learned that voicing those doubts just got people angry. In that time period, I would have said that I believed because I was afraid not to believe. Because the two loudest voices in my childhood were very religious, I felt like there was something wrong with me for not being able to believe.

I tried really hard to believe for a long time after that: prayer and fasting, looking into other religions to see if maybe another faith had found an interpretation of God that made more sense to me.

Being basically an honest person, in the end, I had to admit to myself that I just didn't find any of it plausible.

Answer 4

When I lived in sin,,I would have doubts that God did not hear me many times...I know my walk with God now is more than what it ever was,He showed me a different way..I put away the things of the world and followed Him..He has showed me what it was to put Him first and He showed me so much in that..I have been a self fish person thinking my ways were right and everyone else was wrong but the Lord showed me His ways are higher than I could even imagine...I could never deny Him,,no matter how hard I try,,I really have felt His love and His concern for me.. I put away my thinking and took on His which I like more,,He sees me as an overcomer in all things,,which I never thought I was...

Answer 5

When I walked away from the Christianity I walked away because it didn't feel right. I mean when you're at the alter and asking God whether or not He has a son; something isn't right. That was years before I ever became a Muslim. At that time I never heard of Islam. In truth I appreciate both sides because they all have good views.
This is the best way I can put it.

Answer 6

It was difficult because it was ALL I had known growing up.

But I didn't leave Christianity because I wasn't getting what I wanted. I left it because I wasn't getting what I NEEDED (peace, hope, lack of fear, etc.).

The entire time I was a Christian I felt like the most evil and disgusting creature on the planet even though I was really a goody-goody who never got in trouble, hung out with the "right" people and got good grades.

I went to a Christian school for a year and a half and eventually had a mental break from the "brainwashing" I went through there.

I still have emotional scars from that time and try not to think about it.

Answer 7

I am an athiest. It was a fairly easy decision for me to make, even though I had at one time been devoutly religious. My mother always gave me the opportunity to select which church and religion I felt the most comfortable with beginning at a very young age. I eventually ended up becoming a Christian Scientist. I "gave up" religion and my belief in any type of God for several reasons. First and foremost, I could no longer sustain a belief in a being or entity who could be cruel and callous on a whim, then expect you to thank "him" for this. Specifically, I refer to critically ill children, extremely poor people, innocent people who are basically good and have terrible things happen to them over and over, only to be told they should be thankful! To me, this is akin to having someone rape and beat you to a pulp, then say "You should be grateful I didn't kill you." Seriously?? I should believe there is a being somewhere who brings pain, agony, heartache, death, etc. to us every single day, and we are supposed to worship and thank him? I don't think so. My life was crappy when I believed in God, and it's equally crappy now, so I am saving valuable time by not believing in something which isn't doing me any good at all. If there is an afterlife, though, I still "have it made," because according to the Bible, all will be forgiven and Jesus died for our sins, so either way, I will be okay.

Answer 8

Easy enough. Sort of a maturation process. When I was a child I believed what the parents & teachers told me. It was all second-hand info to me so in a sense my faith was in those parents & teachers rather than in God. Eventually I looked at a bigger picture and understood that they didn't have faith in God either. They simply thought it was their duty and obligation to indoctrinate me. So we were all just going through the motions. Once I had a handle on that fact the rest was easy.

Answer 9

It was hard in a sense. It had nothing to do with me having some bad experience in life. It had to do with the knowledge and not making up excuses for god anymore. I won't lie, there are times when I do miss the security blanket of religion, but it doesn't mean that it is correct.

Answer 10

I grew up in the church. I studied to be a priest. That's referred to as a "calling". And rally I was under the impression that I was called. In that church, one has to write a pre-entry exams. I passed and had to do trial sermons, I passed. Then I went to church synod. That's where I gave up. That had nothing direct with me. I was disgusted to find out that there was so much backstabbing, which included the bishop (who supposed to be the spiritual father of the other priests). Arriving back at home, I started interogating the church. I told them that I needed some time to reflect and be sure whether I want to be a priest.

This led to my interogating not only the denomination but the whole church - from catholic downwards. During this process I started stumbling against a lot of unanswered issues related to the church. But what turned me totally against christianity was to realise that they have a world-wide sickness - i.e. of being the righteous God's children. To them everybody is nothing but a piece of trash. That militated aginst their "loving" God. I then tried to get more clarity from their foundation textbook, the bible. And, lo! I found that so much contradictions and impossibilities that i ended up forming a decision never to take that book and faith seriously. My subsequent interaction with Christians took me farther and farther away from it. So, most of the time my questions are based on my intimate interaction with Chrtisitans.

However, I have some Christian friends who are decent. We spent some of the time talking about my being not a believer - with special emphaises on Christianity - and their faith in Jesus. We disagree on my issues, but they remaincalm and not worked up like mot of the ansers found in thia forum.

The bible's incositencies, contradictions and staright lies; and the attitudes of many christians world-wide (majority - including their leaders - are fakes) made me go away from that faithf!

PS. Hope u won't mind about spelling mistakes.