My husband who has a bachelors degree in Sociology says that alot of atheists are atheist because?

Question

their parents were Christians and they wanted to rebel by being atheist is that true?

Answer 1

It looks like they didn't read your question.

It is possible. It appears to be the conclusive evidence that they are rebelling against something, and from the way many of them ask and answer the questions! they seem to be rebelling mainly against Christianity.

Right on conjecture. It appears that most of the answers are just dancing around without really answering you. Don't they!

Something to think about dear atheists,
If you are not rebelling against the Christians! then why is there so much hostility against them on this site!
Her husband could have a point, or it could to be to close to the the truth that it moved you.

for those who made fun of his education. consider this, the richest man on earth is a drop out of school. Do you who is that man!

Answer 2

Rebellion is a factor, but the delusional qualities of the adolescents' parental specimens can be of tremendous help too lol

> My husband who has a bachelors degree in Sociology says that alot of atheists are atheist because their parents were Christians and they wanted to rebel by being atheist.

Answer 3

I was raised Christian. I grew up in the church. I was around it all of my life and tried very hard to be saved. I just never felt anything. The only thing I ever felt was that I was lying to myself and that peace of mind was too small a prize to throw away my rationale.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in God. I think the idea, although maybe a little rediculous, is an inevitablility of mankind. To fill the gaps between what we don't understand with religion and superstition. I think it's a good thing that so many people choose to find a moral way to live but I just can't believe in something that doesn't make sense to me. The more time and effort I've put into being "saved", the more confused I end up. I gave up on religion because it's empty for me.

I began to find happiness in loving myself and living my life with good reason and moral values. I don't need a 2000 year old book written by a bunch of different PEOPLE to tell me how to live my modern life. Times change, religions change through time but reason always stays the same.

I'm sovereign to nothing but my own gift of reason and logic. The ability to deduce my understandings of the world through logical interpretation and my natural intuition. If I go to hell for using the qualities I was given to the best of my ability, so be it. If I'm going to be punished for excersizing my objectivity, then I'll accept the punishment with open arms. I'll be damned before I bow before such a cruel and contradictory God.

One thing that I will NEVER be is something that I'm not. You're all right when you say you'll never pull a true atheist from his beliefs because they're too often rooted in reason.

Answer 4

A degree in sociology is about one step above a degree in general studies. I hardly think his credentials qualify him to make those kind of judgments. So at the end of the day all that matters is your husband claims to have seen 'several studies' on the subject. Without any further information it is really hard to comment. There are millions of studies out there on a wide variety of topics. Who knows if some person with an agenda once made a study that drew this conclusion. It sounds like meaningless drivel to me.

Answer 5

Atheism, as a philosophical view, is the position that either affirms the nonexistence of gods or rejects theism When defined more broadly, atheism is the absence of belief in deities, alternatively called nontheism. Many self-described atheists are skeptical of all supernatural beings and cite a lack of empirical evidence for the existence of deities.Therefore, they would be unbelievers. But you have not informed what kind of Christians. Read Mathew 7:16-27.

Answer 6

Nope. Not for me anyway.

I became Atheist because I just couldn't force myself to believe in something that I always had doubts about. When I was about 8 yrs old I started having doubts. I asked a pastor of a church "What was there before God?" "Where does the dinosaurs fit in? They are not mentioned in the bible." He had no answers for me. I had that little voice of doubt and as I got older and more exposed to rational thinking, the less I believed. I have always been a free-thinker.

I also became disenchanted with Christianity due to all the hypocrisy I was seeing in the people of the church. Raise hell Monday - Saturday and then walk into church and look down their noses at everybody else and act like they, themselves, could walk on water. I had a pastor's wife tell me I was going to go to hell because I lived with my husband before marrying him. But yet, she had had affairs on every single man she had been married to. One affair she had resulted in a child while she was still married to someone else. A Pastor's wife!!! You would think she would live above reproach and lead by example. Go figure. Another Pastor's wife was arrested for stealing drugs from the hospital she worked for and using them and selling them. This all happened in the town where I lived. It became to much for me to bear and I finally made the last step in leaving Christianity behind. I did not want to associate myself with these kind of people.

I wonder why you cannot ask a question without quoting your husband? Can you not think for yourself? I do not care what type of degree your husband holds. My husband is a Master Mechanic that is ASC certified...but I am willing to bet that no one here gives a rat's behind.

Answer 7

A bachelors degree in sociology does not make him an authority on this subject and in this case he is probably wrong in most instances. My mom was a catholic and my dad agnostic. I was raised as a catholic, but, never really bought the whole story, and now I know it is false. I love them both and there is no rebelling involved in my decision.

Answer 8

I think that many times children of very strict parents and especially those who are held up in Society and revered almost, are more inclined to rebel.
A good friend of mines Mother was a Judge and her Father was a Principal and she rebelled big time in her teens and right into her 30's.
She is today a therapist and recognizes that it was in direct response to feeling controlled that she rebelled against her parents.

Answer 9

I'm not an atheist, but I left Christianity for Deism several years ago.

It had nothing to do with me rebelling against my parents; it was because there are too many theological problems with Christianity for me to believe in it and I see no justification for it, or any other religion, to be true.

Answer 10

I have a Masters degree and I think that your undereducated spouse is wrong. By that logic all the christians are rebelling against their atheist parents. Sounds like nonsense either way. Why don't you just be honest and tell us how you have hatred for atheists instead of making up these silly "questions"?

Answer 11

Yes, sometimes they revolt against parents and control. Some just want to be an individual and different. Some will seek their own path and intellectualize their own concepts. To this they feel important and have an identity rather than being part of an established identify with religion. This does not make them right but it belongs to them.
They have free will choice. What they do with it is on them.
Rev. TomCat