Is there a specific thing that happened in your life?

Question

that made you decide you wouldn't believe in God?

Answer 1

I don't mean to be sarcastic here -but I started researching the bible and asking questions about it. The answers I got were, IMHO, weak. From there I started thinking about the state of the world, the 1,000's of religions in the world, the pain and suffering that is caused by people with over zealous religious beliefs.

The only conclusion that I could reasonably draw is that religion is a man-made artifact for cooping with the world.

Answer 2

No. There was no one particular thing. I grew up a believer. In fact, I had a very strong faith growing up. It's just that as I got older, certain things just didn't make sense to me. When I questioned those things, I got the same sort of answers that you get on sites like this. "You just need to have faith." Or I'd get Bible quotes that didn't tell me squat, or I'd get told that I was insulting God and that I was going to go to Hell. So I started researching on my own. The more I researched, and the more I investigated, the more implausible God seemed to me. I read the Bible...and well...pretty much any atheist will tell you that reading the Bible pretty much seals the deal when you're leaning towards atheism. I've since then read the entire Bible again, and studied it pretty well. I still read and research passages as I deem necessary, but I have never gone back to being even CLOSE to believing again.

Answer 3

The simple answer is education. As I looked at the various religious practices and the Bible, it became apparent that there were contradictions in the stories. There also is a lack of empirical evidence to establish God's existence. So, it's not a case of deciding not to believe in God, it's a case of lack to sufficient evidence to establish God's existence as a fact.

God's existence is no more than a belief to anyone. Belief's are things of the mind. They cannot be independently shared through independent observation like facts. I live in a world of facts. I have confidence in the scientific method of investigation and have found explorations of the supernatural to be disappointing at best and patently absurd at their worst.

Answer 4

Actually, it was logic and my intelligence that made me agnostic - or unsure of the existence of god. I really didn't have a single, defining moment that made me change my beliefs, it was more that the closer and closer that I looked at religion, the more that I was disturbed as what I saw. Not just at Christianity and how it is practiced, but also at Islam, Judaism, and other major religions.

Answer 5

Yeah asking questions of the faithful they couldn't answer. Asking questions that no one could answer. Realizing people used circular logic and then reading a book on cults, propaganda, and religion. Realizing that religion is a cult and people were blind. I then read science which said this wasn't all the answers to the world and we can only show you what we can prove. I then continued to read and educate myself and continued to ask questions of the faithful no one could truely answer. Oh I got answers but they weren't for what I was asking.

Answer 6

Reading the story about Noah and the Flood, I realized the god in the bible had drowned every baby on the planet (and not just human babies).

Whatever God was or wasn't, he was certainly not in the bible.

Answer 7

I'm not quite ready to not believe in God, but I am no longer willing to just accept the bible either.

Answer 8

Yes. From the depths of my mind, logical reasoning emerged and asserted dominance over my thought process.

Answer 9

i started to study and not just take for granted what i believed. I started to question the validity of what i was told and use the brain that I have...

Answer 10

Nope; exactly the opposite.
He revealed Himself to me & I wholeheartedly believe in Him!