2007-01-28 14:57:25 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Rational and critical thinking lead me to the only logical conclusion.
2007-01-28 15:01:30 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I left Christianity after my father's death and the answers I got while trying to deal with it, including the comment from a Born Again Christian that he "must have done something horrible to be taken so young and he was burning in Hell now."
I left Atheism because I could only follow science back so far before I hit a wall of "And where did the matter for the universe come from in the first place?"
I considered myself Agnostic for some time, but eventually found, through mythology and studies of past cultures, a belief in a Higher Power and a spiritual path that made sense to me. Eventually I found that there was a religion that shared many of the same beliefs that I had come to find on my own - Wicca.
2007-01-28 23:11:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not like you just stop believing in God at the snap of a finger. I'm actually one who is teetering on the brink of believing and not believing. I'm leaning towards not believing, but I've been fighting it, because I grew up with such a strong faith, and it's hard to let go of that. Not believing has come slowly for me. it has just, over the years, started to seem more and more ridiculous to me to think that there's some sort of "being" out there. It's like the way most people think now when they're taught about Greek Myths in school. You hear about Zeus, and Aphrodite, and Athena, and you think it's silly that people actually BELIEVED in this stuff. I just started wondering why their beliefs were silly and ours weren't. They believed in gods, we believed in a God. It just started to seem primitive, like we were still cave-people looking to the sky for gods.
2007-01-28 23:17:54 · answer #3 · answered by Jess H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was raised a Christian. I began to question things I read in the Bible, the unfairness, the anger of the "all-loving God," the senseless destruction, etc. That made me disbelieve in the Christian/Judaic/Islamic version of god. I am questioning whether there is any form of god right now because I have never had any personal experience with a god or gods to make me a definite believer.
2007-01-28 23:09:18 · answer #4 · answered by rebekkah hot as the sun 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was born into a Christian family and it never crossed my mind to drift away from the one that created me.I have never been to a college class where the professor tried to influence my way of thinking with his theory. I guess I'm just lucky I didn' get very educated because I think that's the breakdown...we try to figure it out....and you can't because God said "your thoughts are not my thoughts and ...my thought are not you're thoughts.We just gotta believe through faith in him.
2007-01-28 23:54:26 · answer #5 · answered by music man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dropped all remnants of Christianity when I was in college. I had been drifting away before that, tried to refind God and it just didn't make a lick of sense anymore. I remember going to a Sunday morning service on campus and getting up and leaving in the middle of it.
2007-01-28 23:09:08 · answer #6 · answered by mullah robertson 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read the Bible, and learned the truth, which is the Bible is full of contradiction and error and God is a vindictive, sadistic bully. I knew I cannot believe in such an immoral being.
2007-01-28 23:05:24 · answer #7 · answered by Dawn G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Which one? There's many.
Do you mean the omnipotent one that so many pray to? That's simple: logic. No omnipotent beings can exist. The the very attributes you define him by make him non-existent. If you don't know what I am referring to, look up omnipotence paradox.
If you were looking for some sob story about a tragedy that caused me to be angry with said being, I hate to disappoint you.
2007-01-28 23:41:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If god create this world for us to live in peace, why there are still so many wars? To make us learn our lesson so we can become smarter? Why don't he create us in a way that we are smart, so we don't need to learn so many painful experiences, since he is one and the only creator.
It always say in the bible, 'love thy neighbor as thy do', but I still see the opposite.
2007-01-28 23:24:57 · answer #9 · answered by dora_chan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God chooses you to be saved. But unless He is even a Choice in your Life, how can He save you. That's why the Bible said "seek and ye shall find".
2007-01-28 23:03:34 · answer #10 · answered by Charles H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am god! No really I am, and I don't have to prove it just have faith and believe I'll even have a bunch of people write a book for you to show your friends.
2007-01-28 23:11:10 · answer #11 · answered by Thus Spoke the Night Spirit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋