EX-Christians, ex-muslims, atheists,agnostics, deists?

Question

what led you to the point you are now?
Why did you reject your religion if you had one? for atheists what led you to believe there is no God, please do not state just LACK OF EVIDENCE, elaborate more.
THANK YOU!

ASIF ALI, i assume you are a nice muslim of chrstian. Very nice indeed.

thank you patriot, you did elaborate more, I appreciate that.

many good answers, it is going to be hard to pick one.

Answer 1

I just thought about it very deeply and took notice of religions that have existed before the current ones. They all were ruled out eventually and people these days do not follow them but insist their updated ones are completely different yet they follow the same pointless formulas of nonsense. I decided to put my trust partly in Science because it has drawn many correct provable conclusions about our existence. It is still fallible but it's pointing in the right direction at least.

I also noted the blind faith that many religious followers exhibit. They do not even allow themselves to clearly think but instead choose to poison their minds with false mythological information. I think this can't be good for anyone. I think it is better to seek truth than settle with rehashed religious lies that have only come to light due to blissful ignorance.

I was raised a Catholic but have chosen instead to be a Freethinking/Atheist individual.

Answer 2

I am agnostic. I was raised in a southern baptist household where we went to church a few times a year. Other than that, there was no particular religious training.

I got to the point of being agnostic because simple common sense led me to decide that if you don't know for sure what or which God/Goddess/Higher Intelligence is Out There, you shouldn't pretend like you do!

I also agree with Homer Simpson. If you pick the wrong church and go there week after week, you're just making God madder and madder... :)

I just think that "God", if he/she/it exists, is a much bigger and more inexplicable thing than any of our organized religions can comprehend or describe.

I think the gods of our religions are small gods. They are human-like in their tyranny and pettiness and cruelty. A truly omnipotent being would not create people in order to demand worship from them. That's a petty human idea.
Something that powerful isn't so childish as to demand worship or to create an alternative hellfire for those who don't do as he says. I am more compassionate than that--so don't you think there must be something wrong with your idea of God, when an ordinary person like me is capable of more compassion than your God?

I don't believe God is a punishing father-figure. I think if life exists after death, it is a more encompassing and peaceful and loving thing that anything portrayed in current religious ideologies.

I can understand if you want to believe in one certain version of God. If that comforts you, it is okay with me.

But when you push it on other people or use it as a weapon against other people, then I don't understand you at all.

Answer 3

im an atheist, so are my parents so that goes a long way to explain why I am as well, a lot of human behaivour is just down to copying your parents. But more than that ive never felt the need to believe, my family, friends and life so far have given me the character and moral fibre to know right from wrong, they keep me strong and help me make the right decisions. The rest is just down to me. I have noticed in some cases where people who wernt previously religious have become stongly christian after a difficult period in thier life when they unfortunately had no support from anyone else. I imagine when youre desparate to feel like there is someone who still cares that the idea of god becomes very appealing. I have never faced such a crisis but if I did i have faith enough in myself and my family to know I can get through it, I dont need faith in a god.

Answer 4

There is the lack of evience, but also the fact that I see human nature. I see how I act and the way that the people around me act. We are all so called 'sinners'. Except the things we do aren't wrong, it's just the way we are. It's been that way since the first human and it will continue to be that way. I also don't believe in denying yourself in any way, which is what most of these monotheistic religions teach us. Don't do this and don't do that, or you will go straight to hell. I believe in indulging yourself and enjoying the time that you have on earth. I still have morals and believe myself to be a good person, but logic, reason, and objectivism if the key.

Answer 5

Well i'm a Pagan, i believe in many goddesses and gods. I was chrisianed Catholic, baptized mormon, and southern baptist, and then found my way back to the root of my heritiage. I'm Native American Indian, and the basic belief is that there are many gods and goddesses that rule our world.

what led me to this point.......well dealing with infertility, and seeing so many others who are unfit, and i dont mean just by my views but by the views of others and by the views of the law, seeing them get pregnant and here i have my own place, i have a job, a husband and all the other things i need to beable to raise a child and can't get pregnant. I couldn't understand how a Christian God could do that if he was all knowing and all loving.

The other reason i rejected all christian religions was the basic believe that i have to go forth and populate my church. I should go forth and spred and be fruitfull. It constantly made me feel that i was inadiquit as a women, and as a human.

Answer 6

You say not to use "lack of evidence" but that is my answer. I don't "believe" there is no god. I simply see no evidence to consider gods existence to be plausible. You could be right. It is possible that there is a god. Not likely to me but possible. I know of no other way to answer your question.

As to how I got to this point, at about age fourteen I began to question the lack of evidence for what I was hearing in church and reading in the bible. By the time I was sixteen, I decided that without some evidence, it would be delusional of me to "believe" in something as implausible as god or creationism. My doubts became even stronger in Vietnam.

Answer 7

It took bible study, reseach into the history and origins of the bible and Christianity, and attempting to integrate that with scientific positions.

It started as a firm and sincere attempt to teach and expound Christianity *correctly* and not to promote that which was not true. It took me about five years to work through the issues before I concluded that, at core, Christianity was not what it
claimed to be.

(I may as well get my retaliation in first: There is a doctrine that anyone who leaves Christianity cannot have been a proper Christian. I cannot support that from my experience, either.)

Answer 8

I questioned, I researched, I found answers. As far as the god question, there can be no way to prove or disprove the existance of a god or gods, therefore an agnostic point of view seems the most logical.

Answer 9

I began to think when I learned about evolution. That started it and then I realized that the bible didn't make any sense. I think the best piece of evidence against god would be: Where did he come from?

Answer 10

because we made up god just like people believe in a sun god there are thousands of gods that different people belive it there not real there a symbol of hope but not real okay u need to live ur life according and for u not for a god and not to make the lord happy u need to enjoy life and thats why im an atheist and happy