Non-believers, How did you lose faith in God (the creator of the heavens and earth)?

Question

Once again, I want your opinion and I do not do thumbs-down.
I will like if you do not insult or disrespect others in here!
Opinions is good to hear because we learn from one another! Everyone has a reason why they make changes in their life! Respect them,please.

Answer 1

Rae, I never lost Faith in God, just do not believe that Christianity is the ONLY way to believe in or worship Him and Her. As a witch I believe in the duality of Divinity, that there is BOTH Goddes and God. If there is a heavenly "Father" then it stands to reason that there is a heavenly "Mother" as well. And I choose to worship BOTH, just NOT through the Christian Religious system, which does NOT accommodate MY beliefs at all.

Raji the Green Witch

Answer 2

You can't lose faith in something you never believed in. I tried to believe but I never had a good enough answer so I searched for my own answer. Not believing is something that makes the most sense to me. If your asking what made me come to that conclusion I would have to say it's the world. So much ugly in the world for there to be someone in charge of it all. Growing up I seen racism and fighting every day. I seen a boy who was 14 die from a heart attack. I seen the same happen to a girl who was 2. I seen a little girl and her family chased out of a town just because her skin color was black. I went to school and was taught history. I came to the conclusion that if there was such a being as god then how could all of the ugliness exist.

Answer 3

My story is thus. I was studying mythology, a subject I love, (I role play, a lot of these things still effect me) Now, much (if not all) of these old religions and such were based off small stories and myths (go figure, in mythology?)

There are alot of stories about super creatures, I realized 'God' is no different.

Now, over time, people seemed to realize that these were just that -- stories.

Then I asked the questions that changed everything. "Why iis this wrong and the bible right? Who is to say what's wrong?"

That lead me to re-reading the Bible, with those questions in mind. Rather then taking everything as true, thinking about the writer, and what possible biases he/she had.


After realizing a few things, I just plain lost the faith of a super creater, or the like.


Since then, I've taken up mental exersizes, they serve the purpose of 'being a good person'.

Answer 4

Short answer: the Holy Spirit stood me up.

Longer answer:

- I saw no evidence that Christians are better behaved than anyone else, or that the sacraments helped me resist temptation.

- Every "miracle" could be explained w/o resorting to the supernatural. As a hypothesis, God was unnecessary.

- The heaven and hell thing just wasn't making any sense.
1. The resurrection of the body, as taught in the Apostle's creed, is at odds with the findings of modern physics. (Not a big problem.)
2. I could not reconcile the idea of an infinite hell with a loving God--or with the picayune "sins" that the Catholic Church considered mortal. (Somewhat of a problem.)
3. I could not be happy if any of my friends and family were in hell. Thus, *by definition*, heaven is impossible. (Ouch!)

- Massive tragedies such as the 2004 tsunami and Hurricane Katrina were better accounted for without a god than with one. My conclusion was that if God exists, then He has *precisely* the properties of a god who doesn't exist.

- The idea that religious faith has any value at all was causing me cognitive dissonance.

Answer 5

I still believe, I'm just dropping by to say everything is possible. Science and religion are both theories each which can be proved false by the other, the problem is there is no solid evidence of either of them.

Science or non believing is because people seem to think they have it all figured out, but leave out many factors and possibilities.

Religion is ridiculous to some people, the thought of an all powerful God in the heavens.

When people say they have it all figured out and that there is no religion, they are leaving out the "out of the box" thinking. Perhaps all this evidence is all an illusion, a test, that God created to see who is really faithful enough to be in Heaven? Perhaps not?

The best you can do is just keep an open mind.

Answer 6

How to become an unbeliever:

1. Study your religion. Find out all about its history and origins. Feel free to take plenty of classes at your church, whatever it is.
2. Read the Bible. All of it, from cover to cover.
3. Study the Bible. Find out all about its history and origins.
4. Study the history of other religions.
5. Study evolution. Really study it, don't just rely on what your pastor tells you about it or some Christian wrote about it. Read "Origin of Species" and talkorigins.org.
6. (Optional) Gain a basic understanding of brain biology.

If you're still a believer after you've done that, I commend you.

Most atheists who began as believers have gone through this process and can no longer consider Christianity or any other religion more than human-invented fairy tales.

Answer 7

I majored in Anthropology in college and really started to think about it. I was talking to my Mom one day about some of the stuff I was learning about a particular culture and her response was that they were wrong. This led me to thinking, "what makes one religion right and another wrong?" Somewhere along the process I came to believe that there isn't a God. That religion is (as Karl Marx said) an "opiate" of the people. It's the thing that answers all the tough questions, that people need to believe in. That's how I lost my faith.

Answer 8

Its really hard for me to say, and its not like there was one moment where it just happened. In all honesty, i think it was more that i got upset with people who would use God for their own self serving purposes, people in my community who judged others for being homosexual yet cheated on their spouses. People like Pat Robertson who gets rich in the name of God and uses people's insecurities against them. And people that throw religion into politics, where it has absolutely no business. And I'm not sure if i actually don't believe in God or if i don't believe in that God that is portrayed to me by these types of people. I've really been going through a religious crisis the last few years and don't even know where i stand at this point.

Answer 9

You cannot lose what you never had.
Even when I was young and people would try to tell me about god I always thought 'oh yeah, right, pfft!'. I tried really hard to get into religion and believe and be accepted and all but I never felt like I was being true to myself. It felt as if I was living a lie. I finally just decided it was okay to not believe and if people can't accept me for me then that's fine.


BTW thank you for being one of the few that seems to understand opinions are just that and shouldn't irk you.

Answer 10

Honestly, I need to see something or be able to prove it in a scientific fashion to believe it...

This does not mean that I do not know what god is, it just means that I don't believe in (it) myself. I am taking religion classes right now in college so that I can learn about what God/ religion means to most people.

I actually never did believe though.

Although, it is true that I cannot disprove the existence of a God either.