Describe the moment you became Atheist?

Question

for me it is the story of Noah and his ark.

Answer 1

When I learned enough about the Bible to realize how corny it really is. In revelation I believe, it says the stars are actually going to fall to earth! Merely one example of total ignorance of science. It's not possible to go into all the examples of just plain stupidity in the Bible. It would take years.

Answer 2

Well, I come from a long line of unbelievers and rebels so I never really believed in God or Jesus Christ or anything else. When I was about 10 I was curious about the world and searched for answers... I tried out different religions, studying them, etc. I checked out Christianity, Catholocism (sp?), Judaism, Buddhism and a few others and just found them to be incomplete. Then I read this book by Anton LaVey called the Satanic Bible and... Everything just clicked. I realized there was no life after death, I realized I was in control of my life and it was up to me to make my own choices... Everything. I also found the term "Satanist" to be humorous seeing as it's an oxymoron in itself which was on purpose... And ever since I've been a strong supporter of the higher learning life has to offer.

Answer 3

I am not an atheist but I no longer consider myself a Christan.
16 years old born again Christan
17 years youth minister consider oral sex not a sin, just fu*king was. so let me know it was ok if I did that to him
18 years old. People in the Church say one thing do another.

Realized I did not want a god that needed things killed (sacrificed) for him to talk to him Old testament.

Than read this:
"When I was a child I spoke as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things." I Cor. xiii. 11.

At this point I walked away from the church.

Answer 4

I was in the fifth grade, riding the bus home from school, thinking about God. I thought, "How does anyone really know that God is real?" Then I thought about all the times I'd prayed, and nothing had happened. Then I thought about how I'd thought I'd felt God there with me at different times, but that that was only a feeling, and I didn't really know if that was God, or just a feeling that I thought was God. Thoughts like that came up for years afterwards, and it took a long time for me to admit that I didn't believe in God. But that's where it started, and I'd say from that moment on I never truly believed in God.

Answer 5

Like everyone else on the planet, I was born without belief or faith.

Honestly, I can't say that I ever TRULY believed. I can remember during my Catholic school times, hearing the stories from the bible and (even at a young age) realizing that they made no sense what-so-ever. A lot of searching and study just reinforced this fact.

Answer 6

I have never been anything but an atheist. Born and raised. growing up in Holland, no gods were even part of any daily routine. I met the first Christian at the age of 16. At least that was the first time I realised I met a Christian.

Answer 7

I was in third grade. We where studing history and learned the story of a man being burnt at the stake for not agreeing with the church ( Jan Hus). Even though that doesn't disprove god, it said so much about his followers that I could no longer stomach being associated with them.

Answer 8

47 shots of Jack Daniels

Answer 9

becoming an atheist usually takes a long time, you have to undo all the damage done to you as a child.

I started doubting around 5th grade, I became an atheist around my freshman year of highschool.

My mother made the stupid mistake of letting me read science books. Silly her, she could have kept me ignorant

Answer 10

I think I was around 12 or 13.. one day all of the sudden I just thought, "who made god?" I couldn't answer it or find anyone else who could. Ever since then I can't bring myself to believe such stupidity.