Hey would someone out there answer this for me?

Question

I really want to know why (just the athiest)have such a problome with the idea of God.I really would like to know what turned you off to God ,was it something that happened to you? or didnt happen to you ?I'm just curiouse.

Answer 1

My father tried to raise me catholic.
I would sometimes go to Sunday school or church with some baptist or Lutheran friends. Well, I moved to a small town, and wasn't going to church, but I bought a bible and read it from cover to cover. The more I read, the more it did not make sense. It would contradict itself, and talk about things that sound like other mythological stories.
Also I could not figure out, if there is a God, why would he want to be separated from us, and not have anything to do with us. Yes, he sent us Jesus. But if it were all true, why was Jesus not able to convince everyone that it was true, and because of Jesus, we did not pull together as a people, we divided and created even more differing religions.
If God cannot contact us directly, than why doesn't he leave some sort of leader here - Like Jesus, only on a permanent basis, so that he can answer all of our questions, like how God was created (If God ALWAYS was, than why couldn't the universe have ALWAYS been?) I just have to many unanswered questions to be able to believe 100%.

Answer 2

My dear mother, a born Jew, had a very traumatic childhood. She became an athiest as a teen, mainly because of that. She remained an athiest all her life.

So yes, it does happen that way for some athiests.

I know of another woman, 66 years old now, who was a Christian. After after losing FOUR of her five grown children AND a grandchild in one car accident, she became a very angry and bitter athiest. She was always kind-hearted before that, a really sweet lady. About two years after the accident, she started being able to be kind again, but it's been a very long road. She has returned to God-belief, but this time wishes to convert to Orthodox Judaism.

Answer 3

I was never turned on to relgion in the first place. People bothered me with it, but I didn't care at first. So ever since then, I have just thought about religion more and more, and talked to people about it, and became wiser, and just realized that religion is just a big joke.

I believe that there are other dimensions of this world (I believe in ghosts and have witnessed ghostly activity) but I don't believe in a giant man sitting in "heaven" watching over us. And the whole deal with the bible is ridiculous. So many controversial stories and interpretations.

I have no need to waste my time with religion. I know something happens to us after we die. Either nothing, or a remniscent energy is left behind in the form of a ghost. So my spirit might end up hanging out in a certain place forever depending on how I die, and what unfinished business I had left behind.

I wouldn't worry about God and religion at all. Just imagine people who lived hundreds or thousands of years before jesus supposedly did. They never had christianity to pray to, so were they immediately damned to hell for it? That wouldn't be right since that religion never existed when they did.

Anyway, just try and learn as much as you can. The wiser you get, the less you will probably follow god and religion.

Answer 4

I was not so much turned off to God, as never turned on. I've seen religion do very bad things to people...but never really saw it do anything that could be considered selfless and good.

At best, all my life religion has been an excuse for boring social gathering. I had the most fun when we were discussing non-religious issues (such as one unhinged teacher who is convinced the government is hiding UFOs and other wacky conspiricies).

Answer 5

It started when I was 8 yrs old. I was told that if I was in any kind of trouble (not because I did anything wrong type of trouble then I could pray and god will help me. It wasn't so for me, I was raped when I was 8 despite my cries to god to help me. He allowed it to happen. He could have sent someone to help me or something, but he didn't. All the time when I was growing up, I was persecuted, people made fun of me just because of my last name, they even took sticks and stones and hit me with them, despite my cries for help again, he sent no one to help me.

Now these days, I look around and see all the suffering of the world, if god was real, why can't he help these people? Sorry I have better things to do than believe in an imaginary friend in the sky that will help me. I learned that the hard way.

Answer 6

There is not one shred of evidence for the existence of any god. Humans have created thousands of gods, and they're all equally implausible. Why does a belief in a god require faith? Nothing real requires belief without or despite evidence. I think that pretty much says it all.

Answer 7

We're only as turned off of God as you are turned off of Zeus. You are an Atheist of certain religions in that you deny the existance of their particular god(s). For many of the same reasons, I'm sure, we deny yours.

Answer 8

I don't think that anything turns atheists off from God. Humanity is born turned off from God.

Answer 9

I guess its my mind which is so reluctant toward any knowledge that is perceived to be true without any regard to evidence!

No not only that but also this knowledge will control my life and will allow me to pass judgments on people I don't know.

Is that reason enough for you

Answer 10

I'm not an atheist, but I play one on TV. Could be that they didn't turn away from God so much as they found there was nothing to turn away from. Atheism is not denial of God in an angry sense. It is disbelief in God in a logical sense.