To all athiests and believers of nothing......?

Question

were you once believers..........what made you change over....

Answer 1

I used to believe the christian bible when I was young, becuse that was all I knew.

Then I really learned that the lessons of the bible contradict and don;t make sense, and they allow for all this killing... I have my own peaceful religion now :)

Answer 2

I turned away as a very small child. I believed from the start that God is Love, just like the little sign on the Sunday school wall... but then I started to read the Bible, and I was horrified. No loving being would do or condone those things, or value its female children less than the males. I couldn't believe the deity described was a loving being, and turned away.

I've been on a wide and varied spiritual path ever since and now consider myself a Neopagan Taoist and atheist. I've come to believe that all deities are metaphors for something even greater than a deity could be, something more all-encompassing and less definable.

The tao that can be told
Is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named
Is not the eternal Name.

The unnameable is eternally real.
Naming is the origin
Of all particular things.
--Tao Te Ching

Answer 3

I answer this one about twice a day, just like the monkey question that keeps coming up.
Up until the time I was about twelve or thirteen, I went to church every Sunday. Like all kids, I listened to my parents and to the priests, and believed what was told to me.
As I matured, I started questioning and looking for answers and explainations of how the church stories could be possible. Nothing came up. Everything sounded like fairy tales and witchcraft.
I studied the beliefs of all the other world religions. I came up blank. More fairy tales. " Gods" who can do the impossible, Angels, part human and part bird, three-in-one "gods", making living people out of mud.
After searching through religion, I studied science in earnest. Science does not have all the answers yet, but what they claim is believable and proveable. If they can't prove something to the point that it can't be questioned, they call it a theory - - - and keep working on it.
The church says to believe blindly. If some uneducated superstitious dope two thousand years ago said, this is how it is - - you must believe it without question.

Answer 4

Well I used to be Christian, went to church every Sunday, even became an altar boy. I believed Christianity represented goodness and peace until I did research into its history and how many people it has killed and tortured in the name of Christ. Also my mother being a devout Catholic and then abusing my brother and me verbally and emotionally for years really threw me off. Finally, the priest sex scandals sealed the deal. And I realized all world religions have these problems, not just Christianity....

Answer 5

I was raised Chrisitan and I am now non-religious. I beleive in "God" but what that is I am not sure but I beleive whatever "God" is, it is everywhere and does not intercede in our lives. Kinda like Tao.

I changed over after I went on a sorta spiritual quest in trying to fully understand Christianity sicne I felt that Chruch tended to preach outside the Bible. As part of this quest I studied other religions. Ultimately I came to the conclusion that there cannot be any true religion as all religions teach the same fundamental lesson of unconditional love for your neighbor. This same lesson is equally demonstrated in natrue. We stop respecting everything around us, all hell will break loose.

Answer 6

I was brought up a catholic.

Once I was old enough to think for myself, I could no longer accept something that was so obviously ridiculous.

It was like peeling back the layers of an onion. First I realised catholism was wrong, then christianity, then the whole god thing.

I have far more peace in my life now, and have done for at least 25 years.

Answer 7

Maybe once...when I was little. But like with Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny I grew out of things that really didnt exist(at least to me). The inconsistencies and the errors within the bible make me skeptical. The fact that I have never seen god or a miracle makes me doubt. The fact that the institution that is suppose to lead those who have strayed from the path of god is so corrupt & filled with hypocracy forces me to separate myself from religion.

Answer 8

oh c'mon! stop bunching them together and assuming them as a people who believe in nothing. all people have beliefs and it's quite dumb to say they don't. From what I see, atheists are people who want to make sure of something before they get themselves into it. they believe the truth, search for it the way we do so you've got no right to bunch people like that.

Answer 9

"Believers of nothing"?

Drink up!
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Most atheists in the US anyway were raised as Christians, but stopped believing when it became apparent that there is no evidence to support the existence of any gods.

That is really plain, obvious, and easy to understand, isn't it?

It seems clear to me that the only reason that so many believers don't understand it (and write this "believers of nothing" nonsense) is deliberate distortion by religious leaders, who are obviously terrified by the existence of intelligent, morally upstanding atheists.

Answer 10

"believers of nothing".
What an idiotic statement. Just because we don't believe in an imaginary sky-pixie you think we believe nothing.
Moronic is what that is.
Grow up.