2007-09-11 13:28:06 · 45 answers · asked by QuestionGuy2004 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-09-11 13:30:25 · answer #1 · answered by Beavis Christ AM 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an atheist. I'm an agnostic and I never really believed in the first place. I do, however, remember a bible class when I was about 8 or 9 and being told about the 'miracle' of the loaves and fishes by the minister. I remember I didn't believe HIM and I didn't believe the story. In all the years since, I've never once had any reason to doubt that I was being lied to.
recap: thousands of people have no food except for a couple of fish and a few fists of bread. These are divided out to the multitude. After they've all eaten , the leftovers fill 24 baskets.
That's not a miracle, it's a full-blown, ridiculous, shameless and gratuitous lie.
2007-09-11 16:43:03 · answer #2 · answered by Frog Five 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-09-11 13:40:19 · answer #3 · answered by Rat Butler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason I stop believing was because if you look at the some of the early pioneers of science they were all in the church. They all believed in god. Way back then the church and science were like hand and hand. But the moment that science began to disprove things that were written in the bible it was over. Science is the devil. But, when I was in about the 7th grade. I really started to dislike the church. Because I was learning about the crusades and how so many people were killed in the name of god. Then even the Salem witch trials how easily people were killed for being something different. It was disgusting to see that people who claimed to christians. Would do such horrible things. And the more I really learned about Christianity the more upset I became. If these are the types of people who get to go to heaven the why the hell would I want to be there. Go on and send me to hell. It sounds like were all going to be in the same boat anyways. Then the whole I'm a sinner thing. I come into church and I have be told a million times that I can't ever do anything right. Talk about lowering someones self-esteem. Sinners!
2007-09-11 13:33:03 · answer #4 · answered by Bri 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quite young actually. I was 14 and in a private school. My day started at 7:00 am and ended at 5:30. I had religious studies in the morning and secular studies in the afternoon. My religious classes forced me to ask many questions. I was constantly butting heads with my teachers. No answer made sense, religious or secular. I am not saying that being an atheist is the right answer, but it sure is less stressful when you don't have to worry about religion, or God for that matter.
2007-09-11 13:34:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-09-11 13:30:11 · answer #6 · answered by Jack 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2007-09-11 13:52:13 · answer #7 · answered by jetthrustpy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not "atheist" per say, I am agnostic.
I was raised baptist, and I'd say I was around 18-21 years old when I decided I wasn't "sure".......
The more I went to church, the more everyone seemed more hypocritical and deceitful to me--
I saw the little old ladies standing around in their Sunday best gossiping about each other, the men that were preaching to me about my "evil" ways on Sunday morning were the same ones I called a cab for in the bar the night before because they were too drunk to drive home, and the nice "church" boys I tried to date had more hands than any "trouble maker drug addict" I ever dated! The girls in my "Sunday school class" said I didn't love God because I wouldn't wear a dress when I was younger, and they talked about me behind my back constantly- until there was finally a fist fight-
That was the last of my "willing" church going days..... I still go with my mom if I am in town with her (we live 1200 miles away from each other) because it makes her happy, but I just don't think that all of the "CHRISTIANS" that tried to form and shape my religious beliefs are the people that I admire and want to be like--
Hence-- I am undecided--
2007-09-11 13:48:02 · answer #8 · answered by crankyissues 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never really believed. I went to a CoE school and all, and we had to do all the worshipping and stuff, but it didn't really stick. Don't know why.
I remember I was 14 or 15 though and trying to talk to my best friend about the absent God. He was using the first cause argument lol.
So I'd say 14 or 15 when I became active atheist.
2007-09-11 13:38:02 · answer #9 · answered by Equinox 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was raised a Christian. By about 16 I considered myself Agnostic. I remember it was May of 2005 I decided I was an Atheist. I was 31 at the time.
2007-09-11 13:30:57 · answer #10 · answered by mattgo64 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋