For the atheists to answer?

Question

I've read that many of you were Christians at one point. Was little, some,or most of the reason you left Christianity because of the Christians? I know alot of you say it's because of lack of evidence, logical thinking, etc. I am a Christian, but I can admit that I dont know a whole lot about atheism, just what I've learned here. I'm sure this question was asked before. Please answer this one again. Thanks for answering.

Answer 1

No, I did not leave Christianity because of the Christians. I simply left because I no longer believed in a god.

Answer 2

Some of it was the Christians themselves. Most of it was the fact that the Bible is entirely wrong on far to many things and that make me think. Then once I got farther along in my studies and read the Bible objectively I realized what a monster the Bible god would be. Then I came to realize why that was true. The Bible is just stories made up by people and not true at all. The Christian god doesn't exist. No god from any human religion exists. Chances are there is no god at all.

Answer 3

I'd be lying if I said they didn't play a part. But honestly, I was asking questions from the age of 5 to my spiritual leaders and all I ever got was "have faith" and that just didn't cut it with me. I doubted most of what I read in the bible... it just didn't make sense.

So I'd say 90% lack of evidence and very skeptical of the belief system and 10% witnessing Christians behaving as anything but what they're taught.

I do what I feel is right because it's the right thing to do, not because I'm promised paradise or threatened with hell.

Answer 4

No. I left because I decided it was absurd. The thing that got me thinking that way was the plants before the Sun as described in Genesis. I was only about ten at the time and I didn't know anyone else who didn't believe. I actually had a tough time with it for a while.

Answer 5

What people don't realize is that God's way of thinking is extremely diverse and superior compared to the way we think. He gave us the gift of logical thinking, and of free will but we completely take that and throw it back in His face. Just because something doesn't make sense to us, we dismiss it as being something false instead of (as Christians) praying and meditating on it, asking God to reveal HIS meaning and HIS intentions behind it. Atheists need proof, just like obviously Adam and Eve did.

Answer 6

I left because of Christianity, but not Christians.

I did a stint in a fundamentalist church for 3 years. It got me to thinking about the nature of faith and the criteria one has for truth. That lead to becoming an atheist, i.e. one who doesn't hold a belief in a god.

Answer 7

It was reading and studying the bible cover to cover, for the answers to my questions, that sealed the deal for me. Until then, I had just believed whatever I was told about the bible. When I read it for myself, I saw what it was all about.
You should give it a try. You might be surprised what you find in there...

Answer 8

The main reason was the lack of evidence.

Answer 9

I don't believe the premises for Christianity (God, miracles, souls, etc.) but I might still participate in church activities if I thought the benefit to me and/or to society was worth it, but increasingly I came to view the majority of churchgoers as interested in little more than what they believed was going to happen to their sorry asses after they died. And how pathetic is that?

Answer 10

As an atheist you live happier.....not uptight and worried about every little thing. My advice be happy love everyone and end all religions.