what directed you to your current belief?
2007-08-06 07:05:29 · 15 answers · asked by Myaloo 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
oh yes I'm a curious one ;)
2007-08-06 07:05:44 · update #1
I'm assuming you mean my current lack of belief in gods. I have many other beliefs that I'm sure you're not interested in.
I currently lack any belief in gods because there is too much evidence that they are all man-made, and no evidence that they are real. Furthermore, I understand how human nature leads us to making up and strongly believing in superstitions, myths, urban legends, and the like. Religion is just another type of similar baseless beliefs.
2007-08-06 07:08:29 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lack of factual evidence and atrocities committed in the name of various religions. As far as I can tell no religion has brought man anything other then suffering or if it did bring some good to the world it brought just as much or more evil. I did a lot of looking to try to prove myself wrong. Sadly I only proved myself correct.
In the words of Denis Diderot, it is my belief that "men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
2007-08-06 14:10:26 · answer #2 · answered by draconum321 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. By the time I was a teenager, I was agnostic, and by the time I was in my early 20s, I was calling myself an atheist...
When I was 25 or 26, I read up more on the history of religions, and that just made me even more sure there was no god.
2007-08-06 14:08:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
how could there be a god? he couldn't have just "BEEN" there...also, if ppl "go to hell" b/c they were brought up on the "wrong religion," then there is no god...that's just not right...i feel that religion is a way to escape the fear of dying and having nothing more...); also, i have tried to believe, but my mind cannot just accept that there is this powerful being that we cannot see that will save us all from eternal death! why my mind cannot except "like that of a child" i do not know...
2007-08-06 14:12:45 · answer #4 · answered by julie h 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The nagging fact that really, no matter what I told people, I have no faith in things I can't see. That, along with not being able to "feel God's presence" led me to believe that it was all a load of crap as far as I was concerned.
2007-08-06 14:10:53 · answer #5 · answered by Becca 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Catholicism and asking questions that the pastors refused to answer. I asked the same questions to my schoolteachers, and they gave me some answers.
I decided to accept the answers that made the most sense, and I've gone with that approach ever since.
2007-08-06 14:09:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I always have been, so to me, and many other people I know its the norm. I checked out religion and just think its a load of superstitious nonsense.
2007-08-06 14:11:56 · answer #7 · answered by Woody 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was rasied catholic, now i am atheist....but i think most important was that i honeslty didnt believe what i what told as a child. My mind would not accept it, and I think of the bible as nonsense, and a fictious story.
2007-08-06 14:09:37 · answer #8 · answered by Ryan P 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I got an education, and grew up. It was more a gradual process of realizing its all crap, than it was anything else.
2007-08-06 14:09:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Logic and common sense.
2007-08-06 14:10:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋