were you ever a believer?
if so, why did you lose faith?
if not, why did you never believe
personally i lost faith when i began to ask questions about why other religions were all wrong and mine was right
2007-02-28 15:34:33 · 17 answers · asked by kitty is ANGRY!™ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My suspicions were aroused when a nun at my school told me that all the Lutherans were going to Hell. One of my pals was a Lutheran and he was a much more ethical fellow than I.
2007-02-28 15:41:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I was Christian until about 20 or so. Questioning for a few years after that. I started losing faith as a child, some of the Bible stories didn't add up for me and the answers I got were extremely inadequate. God is depicted as a really petty and violent entity. Then there are claims that just are too far out. I just didn't believe a God worth worshipping would be like that. The whole hell theology disturbed me as well, especially that good people who don't accept Jesus would go to hell because they didn't pick the right religion.
Then I majored in biology and I felt science provided more rational answers and contradicted things the Bible said. I examined both and found the evidence in science much more convincing and I know there is no atheist conspiracy to discredit the Bible with science. Finally, I studied world religions. I realized that the things we so easily dismiss as false from other traditions are no more silly and false than our own religious traditions, we have just been brought up to believe these things unquestioningly and on faith.
2007-02-28 23:44:17 · answer #2 · answered by Zen Pirate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was a believer until my late teenage years. I lost faith through a gradual process of critical self-analysis and reading numerous texts on the issue, from many different perspectives. I found that I couldn't respect myself, couldn't see myself as anything other than a hypocrite, if I valued an honest and open-minded pursuit of knowledge, yet refused to subject my faith to the same degree of skepticism and critical thinking I subjected everything else too. So, though it took a while and for a couple of years I held various other, more New Agey supernatural beliefs, eventually I abandoned all of my spiritual and religious views and decided not to re-affirm them until I could find compelling evidence that they were actually true, rather than merely comforting.
It hasn't happened yet.
2007-02-28 23:46:16 · answer #3 · answered by Rob Diamond 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I was a beliver,
Lost faith because I read alot, "The vatican in world politics", I was called a heritic at age 8 for asking a question about the Trinity in religion class.
I was an atheist for awhile,
Who the hell knows now
2007-02-28 23:39:06 · answer #4 · answered by sashali 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope. I was born, and have always been, an atheist.
Reading the Bible made me know for certain that I would NEVER be a Christian, even if God existed. History shows that humans have invented and worshiped thousands of gods, and that the one in the Bible is just one of them - nothing special, and definitely not original.
2007-02-28 23:42:46 · answer #5 · answered by gelfling 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was in third grade history. We leanred about Jan Hus being burnt at the stake. I decided then that all that peace and love stuff was a load of crap and I haven't been in a church since ( well other than other peoples weddings and tourist places like Noter dame.)
2007-02-28 23:56:22 · answer #6 · answered by Zarathustra 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard to say for sure. I was raised Christian, but I figured it out for sure about ten. I had some idea before that and I don't think I ever bought it, but I remember praying and not thinking it was crazy.
Why-- don't think it was one thing. I just slowly realized that there was no more reason to believe in God than there was to believe in Santa.
2007-02-28 23:41:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
1) Yes ... big time
2) Realized that I had never experienced anything. I just believed because I was told to. So I went on a journey to find the truth and it led me to where I am today ... a proud atheist.
2007-02-28 23:37:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I never truly believed because my parents never taught me about God. Funny how one has to be taught, you would think if God wanted followers we would be born with automatic knowledge of him.
I realised I was atheist at the age of 10...
2007-03-01 00:35:14 · answer #9 · answered by God Fears Me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was a "believer" but I never had faith. I never understood it and wehn I started questioning it I realized how stupid and ridiculous it was.
2007-03-01 00:05:24 · answer #10 · answered by Satan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋