hmmm why do think some people become athiests?

Question

is there like a psychological reason? or statistics? or whatever?

Answer 1

what strikes me are the number who talk about the feeling of freedom they got when they decided they were atheists. The idea of God is oppressive to them because God was a ever watching, ever judging authority over them. They rejected God because they didn't like the idea of an authority over them.

Answer 2

Like the believers , the non - believers , too, believe in something. That something is the non existence of god. Both are beliefs and both cannot prove what they believe in.

Mnay non believers , loosely clubbed together as athiests, donot need a prop or a fall back , like the believers. Their success , their failure, their happiness and their sadness etc. they attribute to their own doing. They take responsibility themselves.

The believers ( I am one) know and feel that many things that happen around them , are beyond certain comprehension and logic and tend to think that some unknown force seem to run the world. They bow to this force.In the earlier times these forces are natural forces and people prayed to these . subsequently clever people gave shape and size and colour to this force and started calling them Gods. Then it became "your God and My God". Now we have no gods but only religions. The atheists are happynow.

Answer 3

I think in some cases, not all,but in some cases it makes them feel superior. They think that it makes them smarter because they demand "proof" that something exists.

They also get off on calling people who do believe "foolish" and " simpleminded." They think that believer only believe because we are afraid of death of something. As if the atheist had any clue why believers believe.

A possible conclusion is that some, not all, but some, atheists are atheists because they are insecure in their beliefs. That's why they seem to be obsessed with God.

I have only know one atheists who was an open-minded and tolerant nonbeliever. His dad was dying and I say I would keep him in my prayers. He very politely said that he appreciated the thought, but he didn't believe in God. No big deal, very cool. Subject dropped.

All the others were God-haters.

Understand, it is no different than so-called Christians that shoot abortion doctors or bash gays. Or guys that crash planes into buildings. People just use their belief (whatever it may be) as a weapon to hurt other people.

Answer 4

I became an atheist at the age of 12, when I asked the priest some important questions. ( Just to mention, I am no atheist anymore, but I am convinced believer in GOD !)
Still at this age I went to confirmation education (catholic) and I had questions which bothered me deeply and I asked for a talk with my priest.
So I asked him, how can it be that a murder of Jesus, so the killing of the son of GOD himself, would lead to a forgiveness of our sins. Is this not an incredible huge sin of people to have done that? So the people who then have killed Jesus only did what God wanted if this would had been in God`s plan. And why then if God has forgiven us our sins, is there still so much suffering on earth.
My second question was why a priest if I tell him what I did wrong during the week can forgive me my sins. How can this work. So you can sin and the priest just forgives it, but if Jesus already saved us, why do we then sin still.

The answer of the priest turned me of from catholic church once and for all. He said: Child we cannot understand this we have to believe it. This is all a part of GOD`s mystery.

Since this very day, I lost all my faith in what the church wanted to transmit to me and then I started to search for answers about which I could be convinced about and for which I was not asked to blindly follow and in that to stop thinking myself.

Answer 5

I am an atheist because I don't believe in deities and the word atheist describes this state of disbelief. I don't believe in deities because no argument or evidence presented to me in support of their existence has been convincing.

1. Biology adequately describes life and emotions without appealing to mystical invisible dieties

2. Astronomy adequately describes the formation of stars/planets/universe/etc without appealing to mystical invisible dieties

3. Geology adequately describes the evolution of the Earth, land formations, etc without appealing to mystical invisible dieties

4. Psychology describes the human psyche better than appealing to mystical invisible dieties

5. Appealing to mystical invisible dieties is an appeal to ignorance

6. There's no physical evidence for the existence of mystical invisible dieties

7. A myriad of mystical invisible dieties have been posited by emphatically superstitious societies and have been proven to be products of overly active imaginations (today's religion is tomorrow's myth) and ignorance.

8. Believing in mystical invisible dieties seems to become quite absurd when those who posit the mystical invisible dieties begin explaining why and how they exist in the face of contradictory physical evidence.

9. As scientific knowledge increases, the role of the mystical invisible dieties oddly gets pushed further and further back.

10. Mystical invisible dieties are mystical invisible dieties (ie can never be found by empirical methods)

That should be enough to get you started.

Answer 6

Like the answer above me, we are born atheist and learn to be theist. I was brought up in a christian household but chose not to believe due to the unbelievability of it all. I attended several churches of different denomination but the self righteousness of the leaders and followers put me off for good.

Answer 7

Maybe its due to lack of prove. I'm an atheists. I do not believe in God because there is no scientific prove that He really exists. But I still give respect to people who believe in it. To each his own.

Answer 8

I Guess its more comfortable to believe in a non -existing God rather than the existence of God , because God cannot be proved scientifically in the first place.
For those who believe in God ,no explanation is necessary.
For those who do not believe in God, no explanation is possible.

Answer 9

Read and re-read the bible for yourself, you will find all sorts of contradictions like I did.
After a while, you learn that it's all a bunch of BS and you realize that your parents and friends who were all delusional in their religious beliefs because that's all they learned from their delusional friends and family, and so on... and so on...

Answer 10

Uh, because we are intelligent and think for ourselves, and don't need the spurious comfort of a mythical being to face the realities of life and death?