Who gave up on believing in God and why?

Answer 1

You were not born believing in any god. No baby is born believing in any god. Believing in "God" is something that has to be taught to you. When you become secure and stable and able to think of yourself as a strong person who does not any longer need to be dependent and does not need to be rescued or "saved", you find you do not need to hold onto the stuff you have been taught to believe, and you can recover your natural state that you were born in, free from belief.

Answer 2

I didn't give up, entirely, believing in God, but when I was in High School and began to read about existential philosophy, a lot of that began to make more sense to me than the idea of God that I had been taught. I began to realize that it made more sense if the universe was created in the "big bang," not by some divine miracle, and that nature evolved on Earth due to biological and environmental factors. I also liked the idea that people should take responsibility for their own actions, and not blame God or the Devil for the consequences of their own behavior. Eventually, I began to believe that the was an intelligence to the universe. I, however, chose to believe that intelligence is female, not the male god reported in the Bible, the Koran or the Torah. I respect everyone's right to believe, or not to believe, as her or she sees fit. I do not like people who "hide" behind religion as an excuse to hate any particular group or not to think for themselves. But that's not religion's fault. It's people who must behave in a human and moral manner, and take responsibility for their actions and the consequences of those actions. Is there a God? I don't know. I guess I'm an "agnostic." That said, I love the Goddess and hope to be reunited with HER in the afterlife. What can I say? I'm a complex person.

Answer 3

Christians do sin (1 John 1:8), but the Christian life is not to be identified by a life of sin. Believers are a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). We have the Holy Spirit in us producing good fruit (Galatians 5:22-23). A Christian life should be a changed life. Christians are forgiven no matter how many times they sin, but at the same time Christians should live a progressively more holy life as they grow closer to Christ. I would have serious doubts about a person who claims to be a believer yet lives a life that says otherwise. Yes, a true Christian who backslides is still saved…but at the same time…a person who lives a life controlled by sin is not truly a Christian.

Answer 4

I didnt really give it up, 'cause to be honest, I never really believed in the first place.

But honestly, I think science has enough answers today that I dont need to rely on an invisible father figure (no offense) to explain my world and solve my problems. And for the questions that arent yet answered, I think one day they will be, and I dont need to have them right away.

And I think if there is a god, then he/she is intelligent enough not to judge a person based on how often they go to church. Therefore, even if there is a god, as long as I live a good life, respect others, and dont hurt anyone, then that god wont mind if I dont buy into the words of fallible human beings who wrote the Bible.

And if the Bible is %100 true, and its god exists, then that god is an insecure, tyrannical and murderous god, and I wont spend my life worshipping it. Seriously, what kind of loving, caring god would create millions of lower life forms to worship it and make them suffer their entire lives to prove that they love him/her enough? If that god exists, then I dont think its a god worthy of worship.

Answer 5

Me

There is no evidence that there is a god. It isn't rational or reasonable to believe in things without any evidence to back it up. You would be stuck with hundreds of thousands of gods and everything else that human imagination could come up with.

Not believing in god, is the same as not believing in Odin, Zeus, Ra, Hera, The Great Spirit, Osiris, The Flying Spaghetti Monster and all the others. I would be no less surprised of evidence of Odin was found than I would be if evidence of your god was.

Answer 6

The famous Actor and Comedian George Carlin gave up in believing
in god.If you want to know why,request a back issue with George Carlin's picture in front of the magazine.The name of the magazine is Irish American.He talking about some of his biography and he talks about how he renounces catholicism,and how he became an Atheist.

Answer 7

By "God" with a capital G, I suppose you mean the Abrahamic god?

I never believed in him, and frankly, if he wanted me to believe in him, he (not his followers) could've asked.

So I never gave up.

When I was what is now called a "tween" I took that to mean I was an atheist, but really, I'm just a "never-been-an-Abrahamicist"

Answer 8

I dont see black and white...like most athesits and organized religion. God is not a creator, there is no need 4 a creator since time is an illusion. God is the eternal energy of the universe in which all life is made from. God is everything. God is in the space between us. God is in the table in front of you. God is everything and everywhere and everyone. All life is really one..

Answer 9

I'm an agnostic.

i gave up on believing in god because it doesn't matter whether he exist or not in my everyday life. all i do is try to be an honorable person and live my life. if there is a god and heaven when i die and me being me wasn't good enough to merit entrance then I'm especially glad i didn't waste my time worshiping such a petty being.

Answer 10

Me.

I started believing in god truly when I was very insecure. I had a nervous breakdown, and like god was talking to me. As I became more emotionally stable, I saw that I was being fed a lie when I was not entirely sane. Now I'm confident in my rational judgement and myself as a person, I realised that what I had been taught was a load of bigoted horsegibberish.