How did you become an atheist?

Answer 1

Christian before reading the bible, atheist after that.

Answer 2

I have answered this question before, so I will be brief. I was raised around christians. I heard all the horror stories about hell and heard what I should and should not be doing. I saw the tellers of the stories drink, gamble, fight, and sleep around. Later (a few years) I discovered there were others such as myself who were atheists. I became an atheist at a very young age and have been one since. I have spent a good deal of time researching the bible out of curiosity over the years and have found so many holes in religion that I don't see how any one of normal intelligence can believe it. It is all a hoax and the different denominations don't even tell the same story. My own research clearly shows that there is insufficient evidence to support the hypothesis of a creator. Man is just another breed of animal and that is all.

AEN

Answer 3

I was raised Mormon. I started to notice that some inconsistencies and injustice in the things I was being taught when I was 12. It took me several years to reject Mormonism, and then a few more to realize that the Bible itself was full of inconsistencies and injustice. I spent a little time studying the history of religion. I also spent some time studying psychology and brain science and evolution, and realized that a naturalistic view is all that is necessary to explain everything in a much more satisfactory way than any kind of religious explanation.

No one can yet explain why "there is something, rather than nothing", i.e. why the universe exists. But postulating a "god" to explain existence doesn't add any value, because it doesn't explain how that god came into existence, and even if we ignore than and say a god might exist, there is no objective reason to believe that the Bible is a true account of the god and a period of time when the god interacted with humans. The Bible reads too much like the myths and legends of other cultures, the god described sounds too much like man (and a petty vengeful man at that), and given what we know today, adds no real value.

Answer 4

good question. I grew up in a pentecostal family. Went to church regularly, and even bible summer camps. I didn't stop going because I was an athiest, I really stopped going because I realize the people around me were, to be blunt, morons. I had always been troubled by contradictions in the bible (ie 2 creation stories, 2 Noah stories), but as I started learning about science and reading more, I began to realize that the stories in the bible were just stories. After high school, I went in the Air Force and lived in Japan. There I studied Buddhism for a while, but that was also just mythology. Reading Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell opened my eyes to the psychology of the religious experience. As I became an artist, that impulse filled me with wonder, which is a much more powerful force than faith.

Answer 5

I went to church when I was little with my parents, and the more I learned about God the more I thought this is all a bunch of bull ****. The only reason why these people really go to church is to make themselves look better. And the only reason why people believe this **** is because that's how they were raised and they were brainwashed as hell. Church goers are just going to make an image, that they are good pure people, but from first hand experience they are fake as hell and some of the snotties people ever...

Answer 6

I am not atheist , I am a deist and do not believe in the concept of God as it is portrayed in the Bible.
That anthropomorphized God, the bible God , shows human emotions,is jelous and violent ;that GOD is an insult and contraddiction to the definition of God itself .
I hold a different belief,God is not a stupid moron like religions make IT to be.
If people would just drop the religious nonsense , they would see what God truly is.

Answer 7

First, you need to be born. Once you are born, you are already an atheists. It will be the indoctrination in the future that turns an atheist into theist, should he/she wanted to believe in any form of god / gods.

Answer 8

I wasn't indoctrinated. I had to make sense of the world in my own way. It wasn't easy, but I'm satisfied with the results. Basically, I researched, studied, looked around until all other options evaporated, leaving only atheism.

Answer 9

It's not like joining a club. It's a belief system. When I realized that I didn't believe in God...then I knew that I was an atheist.

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Answer 10

I was born that way, raised Christian till 11, then read the wonderful book known as the Bible. That's when I became an atheist. >.>

Answer 11

I don't really recall exactly. All I know is I like where I'm at right now. I don't need to believe in some silly God.