I wondered about that before..I have friends who are atheists..and they are really sweet..but Ive always wanted to know why they dont believe in God..or if they did at one time..but didnt understand why bad things happened and nothing was ever done...I just wondered...
2007-09-12 16:55:32 · 10 answers · asked by RED SONIA 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I grew up pretty hardcore christian along with my family. Believed in it all the way into my early 20s.
But nothing bad happened to me to turn me away from it necessarily. Although it bothered me how little respect and understanding my family showed to different people (opposing religious thoughts, homosexuality.. really different viewpoints as a whole); at the same time, christianity was a wonderful influence on my brother, who really grew up and became a more sensible, giving person through a church youth group.
Buuut, I don't think it was required to be the christian God to have made that change in him either. Thus, I couldn't use that as anything to sway my opinions. Later on in life, I saw things about religion, learned more about religions, and thought a lot. Thus I've become a happy atheist among several generations of Christians.
2007-09-12 17:15:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anthony 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My family is devoutly Christian and they raised me as such. So as a kid, I believe in God and the stories of the Bible. But when my age hit double digits, I started to really think about the religion things I was being taught and, upon further review, I realized that they contained a innumerable amount of contradictions and anti-scientific nonsense and made no sense at all. Call me crazy, but I simply can't bring myself to believe in things that make no logical sense. Faith isn't nearly enough for me. So by age 12, I was an Atheist. It seemed to be the only logical conclusion.
2007-09-12 17:13:00 · answer #2 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
according to probability they * shouldn't *. If God fairly gave all of us unfastened will, then atheists, for regardless of reason, have desperate to no longer have faith. As somebody above already suggested, "arguing" for God's life is truly moot. interior the tip, somebody will have faith through fact the Holy Spirit finally convicted them of the actuality. If one does no longer have faith interior the Holy Spirit, i do no longer see that happening. If an atheist makes a decision their cutting-edge existence would not sense "suitable", they're going to seek for something else. Do Christians have a "greater ideal" existence through fact of God? look at Paul, he grew to become into overwhelmed, whipped and run out of city for his ideals. Christians would say Christianity brings them convenience. An atheist would retort that they choose no such crutch. Christians would say they sin much less. Ha! Neither has a lock on morality. You reported that we can not use "the afterlife" as a help for why Christianity is greater ideal. If one in each and every of those hindrance is located on the reaction, then we ought to stay with reviews in this earth. if so, if we decrease our reaction to existence on earth, we would locate that the atheist would * continually * think of their existence is greater ideal as an unbeliever. this is not till you improve right into a have faith that your attitude ameliorations to comprise the afterlife. --- added ---- i spotted you suggested the two "interior the long-term" and "brushing off the afterlife". To a Christian, the two are inseparable.
2016-11-10 07:20:28 · answer #3 · answered by konen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was never real for me. In Sunday school, the stories were fantasy, the admonishments and parables were silly and simplistic nonsense. Church presented an unstable and intolerant, judgmental and racist message. I tolerated it for my mom until I was 11, then I refused to go to church or Sunday school, as a waste of my time.
I went back twice with my second wife, for her. The first sermon was interesting, talking about acceptance and enlightenment. The second sermon, by the same guy, was about intolerance and damnation, condemning all non-Christians or non-believers to hell. That was it for me!!
2007-09-12 17:12:02 · answer #4 · answered by Skeff 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, up until I was 13, but then I realized that God was impossible, and most of the stuff in the bible doesn't make sense, like Jesus walking on water (get real), God is referred to as "he" (why does he have a gender, does he, the eternal omnipotent spirit need to reproduce???) etc....
Basically you can easily compare it to any fairy tale, any of which would be about as credible as the bible.
2007-09-12 17:05:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
many things happen for a reason whether you believe there's God or there isn't.
it's how you make and face and thrive in life.
2007-09-12 20:37:40 · answer #6 · answered by Rio Negro 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I tried as a kid, but I guess I always knew god doesn't exist.
2007-09-12 17:04:27 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was very little - then I saw the light and the truth
2007-09-12 17:36:15 · answer #8 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes ma'am i did.
i was a roman catholic until i became atheist
:) have a nice day
2007-09-12 17:07:34 · answer #9 · answered by Chris 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I was Catholic.
2007-09-12 17:05:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋