Dear Athiest I need your help please?

Question

I need to know your root
I mean are you borned as Athiest or you convert to Athiestism ?
and what is your ex- religion

Answer 1

Born Atheist (as were *you*...) ... Never INDOCTRINATED.

“All children are atheists -- they have no idea of God.” -- Baron d'Holbach

Answer 2

I'm going to re-use an answer just once:

I never really believed or accepted the existence of a god (THEY tried to put me in sunday skool but I didn't take it serious, I just thought it was story time). As life went on I started to realize that people were taking these "stories" really serious. I didn't even understand how most things worked at a young age but I seriously just thought "must be a logical explanation to that". I didn't learn the word "atheist" until around the time I figured out that not everyone thought like I did. I realized that for many people, instead of just saying "must be an explanation behind that" it was "god". At a young age I found it easier to think I just didn't know what made certain events happen (yet) than to contemplate an omnipotent being who some how watches everyone and has absolute control of everything. I didn't get why a "god" would make people suffer for eternity just for sometime being bad in a single lifetime.Then I learned the word atheist and it's been easier from then on. There have been plenty of people who were shocked to learn that at very young ages I was an atheist. My family is secular psuedo-christian so my whole belief system was self taught and recieved no outside influence (remeber how I said I rejected sunday skool even at age five?).

Answer 3

Sweetheart, My root is, I believe at birth. Even as a small child in church
I didn't quit buy it. This was in the 50's. People at the (Presbyterian) Church would say things to me and I felt like a phony. Not that I felt evil, but just not quite getting it that one man could love and make and count grains of sand....in Sunday School I remember thinking God must not be very nice if he...oh, nobody got ate by a lion because God said so, that's like saying the Gillette Friday Night Fights were some kind of religion thing. So I proposed to my little self to be the best person I could be. I would be nice and kind. Try not to lie and keep my friends supported, the way they supported me. I would just be the best I could be without ever trespassing on someone Else's life or goals. I would not litter and I would care about my world. And my Word. If I said I would, I would. I would count on me first and be happy I was lucky enough to be born healthy, a lot ta kids weren't so lucky. I've had a load of ups n downs in my life, but I've always been proudest that I was a great Mother and a good friend. I worked hard and laughed harder. I hope this helps you, if not then Please feel free to come visit me on my site and we will become e pals. Just call me Neighbor, all the kids in my Neighborhood do!

Answer 4

As many have said, everybody is born an atheist, because babies don't have any concept of God.

Personally, my mom believes in some higher power (not necessarily God), but never really pushed that on me. I tried the whole religion thing myself (mostly dabbled in Christianity and Wicca), found it all to be entirely unsatisfactory and nonsensical, and realized that nobody knows enough about the universe to be able to say for sure.

I identify as an atheist because agnosticism implies that I'm not sure. But I'm pretty damn sure that the most compelling evidence says that the existence of God (or any omniscient, omnipotent, supernatural being) is highly unlikely.

Hope that helps!
:D

Answer 5

I am an Agnostic ... is that close enough to answer this? Some people tell me I count as an Atheist because I often say I am sure I don't believe there is a God (although sometimes I waver).

Anyhow, I was baptized a Christian and raised going to Sunday school and then catechism. In 9th grade I became a confirmed member of the ELCA Lutheran church I had attended all my life.

I am not sure when I stopped believing. I think it as little by little -- things happened in my life and eventually I realized that I was just pretending to believe in Christianity and in God.

Hope this info helps!

Answer 6

Raised as a Catholic. The more that I studied Christianity, the more I became troubled with it. Moved onto the Protestant religions, then non-denominational Christian, then started to study other religions. I ended up becoming Agnostic (unsure if god exists).

You could say that I "converted" to Agnosticism, but that belies that I made a belief change. I think it is more accurate to say that I studied many different religions, and Agnosticism was the logical conclusion.

Answer 7

I was once a Roman Catholic, Protestant, and for a brief period of time sort of a LDS. I guess I could have also been considered a spiritualist for many years goofing around with Ouija boards, astral projection, and hanging around supposed haunted houses.

Yeah, I am a confused individual.. I am an Atheist because out of all of my research and investigation I have yet to find any proof or evidence to suggest there is a God, and I am a materialist because I have yet to find evidence of a spiritual realm. I still search around, but doubt I will ever find anything.

Answer 8

All humans are born with no belief in god. Atheists in effect. It is the societal indoctrination which creates believers.

You cannot convert to Atheism as that implies a belief in something. Atheists have n o belief in god or gods.

I was just raised in a free thinking family in a rational country, that is the difference.

Answer 9

Ex: Baptist Christian
born atheist but forced to be Christian by parents than at the age of 14 became a Satanist/Agnostic and at the age of 16 became an Atheist.

Answer 10

All are born atheist, then some have religion forced upon them while others are allowed to find their own path. Some stay atheist, some return as soon as they are free to do so, and some find other paths outside of christianity. Some poor souls get sucked into the pit of doom.

Answer 11

I was born to a very mildly religious parents... One Jewish, one Christian... After picking up the basic necessary reading skills from my grandmother at 6 yo, I started reading and figured out what makes scientific sense and what is nothing but an unsubstantiated myth. So, I became an atheist, not born one.