My experience is that it often happens like this:
a) realize your religion is nonsense
b) profess agnosticism, which is often more about not wanting the stigma your now ex-religion has assigned to the word "atheist"
c) over time realize that agnosticism is only a weigh station to accepting your non-belief
d) accept you're an atheist
2007-03-03 20:23:18 · 10 answers · asked by Brendan G 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ditto. Took me a couple of years to realize that agnosticism was just playing it safe. I think it was Sagan's writings that finally made me realize there really wasn't a chance of a god.
2007-03-03 20:26:40 · answer #1 · answered by eri 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A) ex-believer, ex-agnostic and yes religion is nonsense. It causes death and war. But I understand that it is part of the social fabric of our world and has been for thousands of years.
B) Agnostic and atheist are 2 totally different things. Agnostic means you don't know, atheist means you don't believe period.
C) I am willing to bet that most people who are agnostic end up being athiest. Because they can find no truth in anything that is said by religious figureheads.
D) I have accepted that I am an atheist.
2007-03-03 20:29:51 · answer #2 · answered by trevor22in 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My religion isn't nonsense to me
i profess agnosticism
I knew from the get go that it was a 'weigh station' not to accepting my disbelief, but rather to find what i do believe it.
and will not claim to be atheist, as i believe in a higher power.
I spent almost two decades in church and didn't find what everyone else found there, so i'm looking for what exactly i believe.
2007-03-03 20:33:14 · answer #3 · answered by Maja B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-30 04:27:37 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was only a "believer" in name only by the threat of violence by my parents and my own ignorance of the world. Small wonder they objected to my voracious reading habits as a child.
As soon as I was able to think and examine the facts and learnt the basis of rational thought, around age 10, I poured salt on the leech of religion and never looked back.
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2007-03-03 20:29:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You do show how the progression can come for some. However keep in mind that everyone is born an atheist. It is only after a child is conditioned / brainwashed to theist dogma that they can delude themself into believing in invisible men.
2007-03-03 20:29:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That wasn't my route as I was lucky enough not to grow up in a fiercely religious culture, but I expect that's a good summary for many's experience.
2007-03-03 20:30:16 · answer #7 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's your #1 problem... "religion".... you never were a "believer"... God hates religion, Jesus hated religion, and so should you.... "Believing" is a whole different world and life
2007-03-03 20:28:15 · answer #8 · answered by r_u_really_that_scared 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Atheism is a religion also. I think hypocrisy is much worse.
2007-03-03 20:26:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
yup,yup,yup,yup.
2007-03-03 20:26:50 · answer #10 · answered by U-98 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋