Believers: Why did you choose the religion you chose? Athiests: What made you into a non-believer?

Answer 1

I became a non-believer when I first learned about the scientific method. I asked logical, upfront questions about God, the Bible, and Jesus to a Pastor and got the run-around as a result, most answers were dependent on faith.

Faith doesn't put food on the table.

I only believe something that I can confirm for myself and makes logical sense.

Answer 2

Because I could see that God didn't just throw this earth out there like it was real easy. There is such variety in animal and plant life. Even in humans. It was a masterpiece of design.
A true wonderful achievement. In learning about the human body it is so complex and intricate. That some people given free will didn't measure up that I could understand but would van Goug or Davinchi destroy a painting because some of this colleges didn't approve? Satan wanted to rule the world, but all the angels applauded when the earth was created.
Some angels even left heaven to come to the earth to be humans. It was a masterful achievement from a grand creator. Why would he destroy it?
wouldn't you just kick someone out of your house that was tearing it up? Or would you burn the house down?
I believe in a paradise earth that Adam and EVE thrown away. I believe his master plan has not changed.
But as he said, "for dust you are and to dust you will return"
some didn't deserve to get to live here.
That is all that changed. Most religions believe in 3 in one Gods and heavens and hell and a bunch of other stupid stuff.
I believe he wanted a paradise earth and that is exactly what he is going to do the only thing that changed was who gets to live here. I think he is still deciding on that.

Answer 3

I believe in Christ but I don't believe in religion. What made me not believe in religion is listening to wanna be Christians put down other religions and Athiests. I believe that there are true followers of Christ but I have not met any yet.

Answer 4

> Believers: Why did you choose the religion you chose?
a) It's the one my parents had!
b) Protestantism: low cost, great (alleged) benefits!

> Atheists: What made you into a non-believer?
Apparent inactivity on the part of the gods. Hard to believe in something that's invisible, intangible, not measurable, and not performing any unmistakable actions.

Answer 5

Raised Catholic, but logic made me no longer believe. When you take fables as actual fact...I have a problem with that. Even most Shintoists don't honestly believed Japan was created from the congealed brine dripping off the edge of a spear, so come on! Clay and rib bones? Ugh. And people believe this is REAL!

Answer 6

I was never a "believer" in the first place. No one is born being a believer in religion. I had the advantage of being raised without religious programming so that when I became old enough to contemplate such things, I was able to make my own rational and informed decision.

Answer 7

I was having a hard time with religion and the inconsistencies, and the fact that religion would directly contradict and fight the proven sciences while it next to nothing to support it. I finally decided that I couldn't blindly dedicate my whole life to following something that had no solid proof, support, or foundation.

I think I was also taking up issue with all of the anti-gay, anti-Mormon, anti-Muslim, anti-everything that was different attitude that was being displayed by the religious folks that I knew.

Answer 8

I am associated with Jehovah's Witnesses, and I 'chose' that religion because they answered my questions about life and God and the future from my own Bible, in my own home, and what they showed me from the Bible made sense. It was something I could believe and believe IN, and hold onto. It was the truth for me. Agape!

Answer 9

We are all born as God's children. Some people choose not to be part of it or not just yet. We did not choose a religion, God chose us.

Answer 10

i'm an agnostic. i was raised without religion and by time i was 13 i started seeking out a faith. after about ten years i realized that none of them moved me. i realized that i looked at religion from a logistical point of view, and no matter how much evidence any religion had, none of them had a smoking barrel, and it would take (literally) an obvious act of god to make me believe. but moreso it's not that i believe or disbelieve. it's that i don't know and i don't care. however... i am an atheist leaning agnostic.