What made you decide to reject Christianity?
What about Atheism appealled to you?
2007-01-31 13:56:50 · 15 answers · asked by S K 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When I joined Y!A, I was still Catholic. I deconverted while participating in the Q & As here. I rejected Christianity because I began to realize how ridiculous my beliefs were, and atheism appealed to me because I had always been logical in all other areas of my life, and had to admit that religiosity did not make sense given the way my mind works.
2007-01-31 14:19:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm an atheist and a former Southern Baptist.
I read the bible, studied it, then went seeking answers to why it made no sense. I studied other religions and found them interesting, but they weren't for me either. Eventually my journey ended when I found that I simply did not believe any of it. I really don't consider my being atheist as rejecting christianity as much as accepting what I do believe....that there is no god, no heaven, no hell, nothing. I wouldn't say atheism appeals to me. I would say that due to my (lack of) beliefs, I am an atheist. I am what I am.
2007-01-31 14:08:35 · answer #2 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I didn't 'convert'. I reverted.
However, between being born an atheist and returning to it, I was a born-again, convicted sealed and delivered Saved Christian who has taken multiple college level courses in theology and biblical scholarly studies. I was in the process of becoming a minister in fact.
THe more I read the Bible though, the less it made sense. And when I saw how all religions evolved, just like all other sets of ideas... well... it just didn't make a lick of sense.
It was a painful, agonizing, terrifying few years of transition, many hours spent before the Tabernacle and Crucifix, alternately raging in anger or desperately pleading for ANYTHING to restore my faith.
It never came.
The funny thing is... after a while... the pain and anger and fear stopped, and reason and logic naturally filled in where faith used to be.
I feel more content now as an atheist than I EVER did as a Christian.
2007-01-31 14:07:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
My tale is long, like others, yet i develop into an excellent Christian interior the experience i develop right into a student of the Bible and that i examined or tried what develop into proposed via the Bible. My journey led me to a profound disillusion with the religion. the common Christian in Asia, Africa, and the U. S. I dealt with exhibited an outlook, a theory they lived with that eradicated the secret of advent. i think of as a youthful guy that develop into too lots and not sufficient to hold me. So I booked (left the Church)! Now that may no longer all jointly real i develop into thrown out of a mega church and advised to no longer come decrease back to others because of the fact of my tremendouspersistent to locate the intensity of the religion, the powers of Christ and the instructions. i assumed being a Christian meant to be Christ like and crammed with the secret and that theory on my own branded me as an atheist via the Christians I encountered. I don’t unavoidably fall into your classification yet I enjoyed the different reads lots i want to throw my little element interior the mixture. .
2016-11-02 00:29:33 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was raised baptist and gave it up around the age of 15 and I am now 28.
The reason I gave it up was I guess something in my brain just clicked and I couldn't buy all the stories that seemed so far fetched.
I am not an atheist though I am a Humanist ( Satanist) I don't really worship Satan I just use it as a shock value, but I really do despise christians( including my family) I guess it's because I feel they robbed me my earlier years and I can't get them back.
2007-01-31 14:15:15 · answer #5 · answered by Thus Spoke the Night Spirit 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The term is de-convert or revert to atheism. A baby is born an atheist (one without beliefs in god(s)). A newborn has no beliefs in anything.
To come back to the state of no beliefs in god(s), it is de-conversion from previous conversion to belief in god(s).
2007-01-31 14:11:53 · answer #6 · answered by CC 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
you can't convert to atheism, atheism isnt a religion, atheism is simply a rejection of all gods or goddesses. and i've been atheist since birth b/c i was never raised to believe in a god.
2007-01-31 14:04:57 · answer #7 · answered by The Frontrunner 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I converted to Deism from Christianity (it's been called "a step away from atheism, but I don't think it is). It makes sense to me. Why does an omnipotent God need a mouthpiece (a.k.a., prophets) to communicate with his creation? We can know about God from the world around us.
2007-01-31 14:04:25 · answer #8 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Me.
Reason: I learned about Christianity's dodgy past.
2007-01-31 15:59:29 · answer #9 · answered by 2 days after my B day :) 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never know that atheism is a religion.
2007-01-31 14:05:07 · answer #10 · answered by Green Lantern 4 · 7⤊ 1⤋