I am an athiest. Why should I become a believer of religion?

Question

I am having a very difficult time and I feel very cold and distant from the world sometimes. Has anyone abandoned atheism and turned to faith? Or the other way around? Tell me your reason.

I feel very isolated. Out of place. I don't have much friends that I can relate to.

Answer 1

To have any sense of worth in your life is to believe in a Creator who gives you value.

Answer 2

I haven't abandoned athiesm and turned to faith, but I have abandoned faith and become an agnostic leaning towards athiesm.

If you're looking for warmth in this world, you don't need to look to religion to find it. The "warmth" religion gives you is, in my opinion, just in your mind anyway, imagning oneself to be loved by a God whom we can't really prove exists-- whether or not one believes he exists simply is a matter, at its heart, of whether one WANTS to believe he exists. (or she. whatever.)

People are fantastic. (For the most part, of course.) Supposing even if there is no God and life is meaningless, that's no reason to give up on life. There is so much beauty around us that we should take more time to appreciate, so many things that our crazy world has here to discover. Patterns in the sidewalk. Passing dogs. Young lovers. Old lovers. The sun. A child's laughter. Shapes in the clouds. The way your carpet feels under your toes. The world holds so much goodness and so many awful things as well, one has to just learn to appreciate the chaotic beauty of it all. Yes, it's chaotic and some really @#$%# up things happen here, but we can either get angry about it or we can just do everything we can to fix it while we appreciate the good things.

Take a road trip. Meet some new people. Pick up a new hobby. Explore life. There's a million things to explore! You've never discovered it all; there's always more to learn.

The more integrated you are with the world-- the more you appreciate the fantastic gift of oxygen in your lungs, the more connected you will feel to the world.

As Incubus says...
"Don't let the world bring you down--
Not everyone here is that f****d up and cold...
Remember why you came and while you're alive,
Experience the warmth before you grow old."

Good luck. :) I'm rooting for you.

Answer 3

If you want to call yourself an atheist, learn to spell it better than the Christians do. Methinks you are posing.

However, many people have turned from one side to the other, and back again I'm sure. There are others who remain fixed and will never be persuaded by the other side.

I used to be a fundamentalist Christian. I accepted Christ as my personal saviour when I was about 8 years old....and again at 12 just to be on the safe side. However I always had doubts and questions, and was never convinced enough to undergo the full immersion baptism my sect required of the congregation.

I've been an atheist since I was around 20, after going through a phase of deism, then agnosticism. Other religions such as Islam or Buddhism were never appealing. Once I realized the Christian god wasn't real, I understood that all gods are myths.

I don't foresee myself going back into the darkness of religious belief again as I've been a non-believer much longer than I ever was a believer. My parents, brothers, sister and most of their friends all belong to the same sect, and we get along fine. We rarely discuss religion or faith though.

If you give this answer a thumbs down just because you automatically reject atheists or "traitors" to faith....then you are likely one of the fixed and unmoving ones. Have a nice godless day just the same.

Answer 4

Because by the time you find out for sure, it's going to be too late to change your mind. You sound as though your soul is longing for love and acceptance. You've probably heard this a thousand times, but Jesus really does love you and is waiting for you to recognise that he's standing there knocking, just waiting for you to let Him in. I myself was never atheist, although I had some pretty odd and diverse beliefs. I became a Christian because I finally let down the barriers and Christ came right in. He showed himself to be real to me, by the way he led and taught me, even before I came into other Christian contact. Try reading John's gospel, Chapter 13 onwards and then the book of Acts - both in the bible. I didn't become a Christian until I was 33 and I had what most people would call a 'life' - but absolutely nothing can compare with what I have now. Being a Christian will not take your problems away but you will find peace in the midst of any storm with Christ as company. Any person who claims to have been a Christian and turned away to atheism or other beliefs, may have gone to church etc but has never known Christ. Once you KNOW Him it is impossible to deny Him to that extent.

PS You can e-mail me if you want.

Answer 5

First things first.
Religion is a man made interpretation. There are many that are bad.
First you must find the true God.
Learn his first name. (it's not God)
Find out what his agenda is for man, earth, governments and heaven.
Do not wait for him to come into your heart because he is busy and waiting for you to come in compliance with his agenda, or purpose.
God is is progressive. God is trying to fix this world for you,
so you won't have all these problems that your parents (Adam and Eve) Caused.
If you want to get on-board His train you need to put forth the effort to get a ticket. (It's Free, You just got to go get it) .
God Has requirements and that is OK. What qualified leader or Father doesn't.
Come on It's OK. There is a god with a purpose that goes way back before any man made god. He unfortunately has been misrepresented by lies and slander. They tell you... He will burn you.. You’re a wretch.. a sinner..and for a price they will save you. No wonder you are an atheist.
You can believe in anything you want.
You can attend the church of your choice, or continue to be atheist.
I recommend Attending the Church of God's choice.
So who is he? What is he?. Your search continues.. doesn't it?
Perhaps some good music will help. www.thebookbaggs.com
All the best, Dale

Answer 6

Yes Drifter this is a common enough experience that occurs when you have had enough of the world, I felt the same way and as life was taking me down further and further I just couldn`t help but think that there has to be more to my life than this, it seems to me that sometimes when a person has hit a low ebb in life it is then that they are more open to the light of Christ.
Leonard Cohen wrote a song called Anthem and the refrain says this; `There is a crack,a crack in everything, that`s how the light gets in`
The crack being our incompleteness and God is the light.
Sorry for rambling on too much,anyway hope you feel lighter soon.

Answer 7

Drifter, honestly, I feel you already know what you are going to do. You just need the right words to help you over either edge(so to speak). Thankfully, neither side will twist your arm(or should i rephrase...Shouldn't twist your arm).
Tell me, you already have said in your paragraph that you feel "very cold and distant" from the world. People make decisions depending on their "walk in life". You have already heard answers like "God draws you", "I used to be christian but now I'm atheist" for some reason or another.
My reason for being christian is because I love God and want to know more about Him. I always talked to God even before I went to church. Before I even read the Bible. I probably could explain it until I'm blue in the face, of How I know he's there, but someone will call me crazy and delusional. I'm ok with that.
Religion, I agree, is misguided. With some christians its all about traditions and what satisfies them and not God. Sum it up like this...You want to believe or you choose not to. If you want to, seek Him out. If not, follow the atheist way. There's no riding the fence. I hope you choose to believe, cause there's always room for another brother or sister in my life. God Bless.

Answer 8

There are a lot of reasons people believe in their chosen religion.

For many, believing that there is a "god" who loves them unconditionally is enough.

For some, it's the security of not having to look for answers. ("God" created everything. No need to look anywhere else.)

For others, it's the community that goes along with a common belief system. (A built-in "family".)

I can't remember a time that I ever believed in a god. But I can remember the summer I decided I was atheist. There wasn't one event, but rather a series of events.

What's most important is that you're comfortable in your beliefs, no matter what they are. No one will know what's right or wrong until we die. And by then, it's too late to change your mind. ;)

Answer 9

If you are an Atheist. Why cant you spell it?

I was Catholic now I am an Atheist. Why? Well its a long story..... I just learned about other religions realized it all made no sense. Looked at mine again and realized it was the same thing. I was agnostic for a while then made the jump to Atheism. Since, I now think God is to paradoxical to be real.

Answer 10

I started disbelieving when I was 11 years old. I became a firm atheist when I was 21. Sometimes you can feel pressure from family and co-workers but there are many of us everywhere. There are chat clubs, local groups, internet sites. I find answering questions on religion in answers as filling my need to spread the word that we will not be forced to believe if we don't want to believe in those fairy tales.

Answer 11

i do not imagine i have ever truly had chilly atheist beliefs, yet i replaced into raised via proud existentialists who theory faith unnecessary and extremely underwhelming. LOL from that historic past I actually have taken an interest contained in the doctrine of religion and end up a believer in a one God of all it truly is wisely represented via the faiths, yet no longer inevitably via the persons of the faiths. i have not grew to change into to any faith as a effect of that, even with the actuality that. faith, to me is, for the most, a meandering furrow worn into the floor via lost sheep nonetheless wishing for god in sweet tasting grass. i ought to assert that atheism is frequently a wondering persons route and it truly is hence very conceivable that an athiest who would not take themselves too heavily, nicely all and sundry who's able to chorus from taking themselves too heavily truly, can search for via the theological and philosophical writings coming to the eventual end that there is a God and a soul and a heaven and that's all nicely worth it.