At what age does the hope of saving from religion become nearly futile?

Question

I became an atheist at 21. I heard that most religous people snap out of their hypnosis either in their teens or in their twenties. If a person is going to awaken from religion, would it have happened by the time they reach 30 if it is going to happen at all? Or is there still hope?

Answer 1

When a person wastes his life without devoting to God, he starts feeling the futility in the belief of God. For a person who has understood the logic of following the religion, it is only hopes ahead.

A person who takes no challenge in attempting to find out the Truth, is an escapist. He may prefer to call him an atheist. Living that kind of life is an exercise in futility.

Answer 2

well...have seen a few have no real firm comittment, become a young adult, become an atheist in their 20s....

Have also seen them "snap out of their hypnosis" (just wanted to make sure the statement worked both ways), and then sometime later in life come around to faith.

Maybe the birth of a child late in life, maybe watching a friend go through illness.... I don't know what brings them to start searching again.

But to again use your words..."There's still hope". As long as they're breathing, are still open to discussing, then there is hope they can rekindle the love for God.

Answer 3

It depends on the intensity of the brainwashing. Some people are better at it than others. If Atheism is discussed openly and even permitted as serious thought whilst young, then the transition to reality will come sooner.

I can not remember being anything but an Atheist, even though my parents believed in a god. They did not, however, follow any religion, and the possibility of there not being a god was discussed openly and regularly.

Answer 4

It's not possible to pin point any age or age bracket and more so due to other reasons.A person may be mentally ready at an age but may take his own time to come out openly after a gap of time due to various reasons or even constraints.HOPE is always there as nobody can stop anybody from becoming WISER by the day.

Answer 5

There is still hope no matter what the age the infected individual is. It is all about the mentality of the person, and whether or not they allow their minds to open up to reality. There are lots of people who are naive, and can't mentally handle a shift in thought processes, so relieving themselves of religion is very hard. Consider yourself lucky that you came awoke to reality at 21 instead of wasting many years of your life with the false hope of religion.

Answer 6

I think that period is generally when young people are more exposed to the world directly so there will be greater conversions that occur at that point. There is just so much life experience that starts occurring at those ages you start to view life from a different perspective.

I think this can occur to someone at any age though, up to the day you die at 98 1/2. I just think it is more noticeable statistically during the university ages.

Answer 7

I believe I've seen some of the R & S people say they become atheist in their 30's. I couldn't point them out to you, but I would take that as an indication of hope.

I also couldn't tell you if these same people first went through a period of agnosticism before they became atheist.

Answer 8

i began out to loose faith early, yet I grew to become an atheist at approximately age 13. Now i'm 17. I grew up in a Christian relatives, in an extremely small city (approximately 4000 human beings) with regularly Christian human beings.

Answer 9

depends on the persons experiences. Someone like me, hope was futile at about 3-4 months ago.

Answer 10

It mostly depends on what social connections you have that depend on you staying religious. If you marry within your religion, your chance of recovery drops to one half. If you have kids, it drops to one quarter. So on, so forth.