Have you ever struggled with your beliefs; questioned their truth?

Answer 1

Not really. I've struggled with them because of a lack of social and familial approval, but not truth. In fact, the question of "what is the truth about the existence of a god" is why I'm agnostic.

Much like the militant agnostic bumper sticker suggests, I don't think anyone knows the truth about the existence of god. To say so one way or another seems presumptuous to me.

I'm sure I'll get some thumbs down on that. No one likes agnostics. I've come to accept and embrace that. :)

Answer 2

Originally, as a Christian, yes. That's how I became an atheist.

Now, I don't have to follow teachings that need to be questioned. I follow what I believe is the truth. I don't choose to believe something just for the sake of believing in it, as religion does. I am open-minded, not blindly following beliefs.

If by struggling you mean having trouble with one's beliefs not in the sense of their validity, but in how one copes with them, I haven't so much yet. I don't tell anyone I am an atheist, mostly because of the negative connotations associated with such beliefs.

Answer 3

Yes, I have. I am a Catholic, but find myself disagreeing sometimes with certain doctrines of the Church. However, I don't disagree enough at this point to completely leave Catholicism, but am trying to understand why the Church teaches such things in the first place. I have many questions, and don't necessarily feel that it's a bad thing, because most thinking people do eventually ask the big questions and want to know more than what they've been told.