Thank you all for answering My [ Athiest do you feel your non- belief are a sort of religion?]
I enjoyed most of your answers and I think you made some good points.
I genuinely want to read your answers so please if you have nothing but hostility to offer then Kindly skip my question.
I sincerely enjoy the polite, well meant answers and do not have some sort of alterior motive for asking.
2007-05-28 11:53:22 · 18 answers · asked by rabidkitty 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i outgrew belief in a god when i outgrew cartoons
though i still watch cartoons from time to time..i have yet to believe in a god again
2007-05-28 11:56:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You wouldn’t buy a car on the salesman’s word
without test driving it. You wouldn’t buy a home on
the realtor’s word without having it inspected.
Why would you choose a religion, arguably the decision
that will most influence the rest of your life, by
walking into the closest church to your house or going
to a church like the one your parents attended and
accepting at face value that you have been given the
truth about God?
Faith is an impediment to the sincere search for
truth. It is a shortcut that allows a person to avoid
the hard work of searching for truth for themselves.
It allows a person to say “this is what I believe”
without being able to articulate why. I would
encourage you to fearlessly pursue the truth wherever
it leads you. When someone says “How do you know this
is true” Be prepared to answer them with evidence.
Show me a person who says they believe in God simply
by faith alone and I’ll show you someone who hasn’t
earnestly looked for the truth about God.
2007-05-28 19:21:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was born with no belief in gods or devils as we all are. I was also fortunate to have parents who felt that burying me under a ton of guilt and superstition, was just not the way to go.
I find it a little offensive to constantly have my non belief in silliness described as some kind of religion. Do you call people who do not believe in the tooth fairy as having a religion?
Atheists have very little in common other than our non belief in the supernatural. We are not a club, group or sect. Some are Republicans, others Democrats. Some are cat people others prefer dogs. See what I mean.
No hostility is intended.
:)
2007-05-28 22:59:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was no specific event, just a slowly dawning realization that in the natural world, there was an equally valid non-theistic explanation for every theistic one. And on the supernatural level, I realized that the observable distinction between a true, "divine" intervention and a false, "magical" illusion was only a matter of the attributed agency. And a supernatural explanation could survive only until a natural one developed.
2007-05-28 21:20:09 · answer #4 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read. I thought. I looked at rational explanations for which "God" was the usual answer and thought they made a whole lot more sense. I did a LOT more reading. I gave religion the benefit of the doubt, but in the end it's just a fairy story used by people to weild terrible power. It has to go.
2007-05-28 19:06:16 · answer #5 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you call the belief in science a religion then yes, I became an Atheist do to a bunch of small occurrences. Like education, Knowledge, and logic .
2007-05-28 18:58:17 · answer #6 · answered by Snooter McPrickles 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was no one specific event. It was a gradual enlightening through rational observation and critical thinking, helped along by the fact that I've never been able to get through the Book of Genesis without laughing.
2007-05-28 18:58:12 · answer #7 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, there honestly wasn't any one thing. I grew up a believer, and I was actually a very happy believer. It's just that as I got older, the idea of a "God" just started to not make sense to me. I literally just started wondering about why, in this day and age, we still believed in gods, the same way the ancients believed in Zeus, Athena, etc. It started to seem sort of primitive to me.
Anyway, that's how it began.
2007-05-28 19:49:58 · answer #8 · answered by Jess H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't a specific event that caused me to become atheist, but rather a string of events that happened over several years, the first one being that I started seeing holes and contradictions in the christian faith and description of god. I studied several other religions over many years and found them to be equally as absurd and false. I've personally found more evidence that no gods exist then reasons that they do.
2007-05-28 18:57:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Growing up and realizing that the concept of a God is completely illogical and ridiculous. Plus there has never been any credible evidence to convince me otherwise.
When I would go to church as a child I never "felt" anything like everyone else said they did. To me it all seemed as make believe as Santa.
2007-05-28 18:57:32 · answer #10 · answered by HighOnFireSlays 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was mollested when I was a kid. It created years of distress for me even while I believed in god and jesus.
It helped me to reject god, actually. It was the most liberating experience of my life. I would always ask why god would allow something like that to happen. People would answer it was my test, or god works in mysterious ways. In the end I came to resent that. If god put me here to torture or test me then I wanted nothing o do with him or her or it.
Eventually rationality took over and I decided god was probably a fabrication and I should lean on myself. I've had no complaints about life since.
2007-05-28 19:04:33 · answer #11 · answered by Incognito 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋