Why peoples are converting in to atheist?

Answer 1

Because they start using their brain and not the cerebellum as a substitute for the brain.
Logic and clear thinking will make you free.
The internet is helping people to realize that they are not along, that there are lot of people out there that have doubts about what they are being told but due to peer pressure and other subtle pressure they stop questioning I know a case of a very high educated guy . He is rational in all aspects of life but his rationality stop when he is in religion mode. Once his son (by then 12 years old,showed me a book on geography... to my surprise ,the first 20 pages were missing. I asked this child . Oh looked .tell your father to return this book because all these pages are missing. The child told that his father had torn the pages because the first chapter was about the origin of the universe and it contains a theory (bigbang) that is against the teaching of the bible. Here I had a good example of brainwashing in action

Answer 2

Probably with things like the internet. People aren't just learning from customs being passed down generation to generation. They're communicating online, dissecting everything, and sharing ideas. Before smart people were just smart. They might have been able to share their ideas with their friends. But few could actually get heard. Now I can go on Yahoo! Answers or Digg and share the answer to a century-old problem and get "heard" by millions of people.

And the more we do this, the more we start thinking for ourselves, accumulating other cultures and beliefs, and making our own logical ideas. And frankly, once you can learn the facts like you can now, religion just doesn't make as much sense as it does when you're brought up in a society that teaches you nothing but their ideas.

If you were born and raised in a house where everyone believed raccoons could talk, though you could never step and side and hear anyone else's ideas or even see a raccoon, you'd believe raccoons could talk. The internet opens that door and lets you think for yourself.

That's not even mentioning things like, well, science, which has fairly recently disproved much of the Bible.

Answer 3

Converting is the wrong word. But believing in a god that watches the fall of every sparrow? Ask some child soldier in Sierra Leone if he believes in that. So we atheists observed the world around us and came to the conclusion that if there is a God, then he's a thug and not worth our time. Really, why believe in a supreme being that allows thing like Darfur and Rwanda to happen, not to mention the Holocaust?

Answer 4

Because they do not believe that religion is necessary in modern day society. Some (rather ignorant) people do not think you can believe in science and religion. So they believe in science because there is supposedly more proof. Also there is the problem of evil and the inconsistent triad. If God exists and God is benevolent, omnipotent and omniscient then evil surely can't exist.

I could write for days but i don't have the time too much coursework!

Answer 5

Because most religions today have nothing to offer.

The recent scandals in the Roman Catholic Churches, overzealous and uninformed Christians condemning everything and everyone in sight, lukewarm churches, people who point to past atrocities by organized religion are a few reasons.

But the biggest reason is the great "falling away" that the apostle Paul warned that will happen before the return of Jesus to prepare for the rise of the Antichrist.

He said;

2 Thessalonians 2:3-7

3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,

4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?

6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.

People must become cynical and disillusioned with religion for the Antichrist to rise and deceive mankind with his false miracles. So what we are seeing today, is the fulfillment of prophecy.

Answer 6

I dont think that people are converting as such. I think that society is changing in such a way that it enables you to think more openly about things. Science is having a big impact on what and the way that people think about things and unfortunately, alot of people are having to see before they believe. I personally do have my own beliefs.

I dont think anyone is converting as such though, I think everyone is born an atheist and the path that you chose as you grow up or how you raised helps to define what you will believe in.

Answer 7

I was never 'converted'. That implies some outside influence directing me. I came to the atheistic conclusion after many years of christian life, after some intense bible study, after some very detailed questioning and thought. For me finally it was so completely obvious that religion as a whole is such a con. Man created god in his image, definitely not the other way around.

Answer 8

Look at what religions offer. A great deal of human misery has come from religion, and the conflicts between them.
People shouldn't need an organized group to become spiritual, and I think most people know very well what it takes to be a good person, and to live a good life.

Answer 9

Because we ask questions, think logically and not do we're told. By the way you can't convert to atheism, it is not a religion.

Answer 10

By the by, you don't convert to atheism, since atheism isn't an organisation of any kind. You just leave religion.

I'd like to think people are doing it because it makes sense, logically speaking.