I've been an atheist for well over 30 years now.
2007-09-20 03:26:47
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answer #1
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answered by iamnoone 7
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Here is a rough timeline of my belief system:
0-4yrs - no opinion. My parents brought me up in an Agnostic environment.
5-7 I think I did believe in God, as this was what was taught at school.
8-10 skeptical. If god did exist, I reasoned, why does he let terrible things happen the world over? Why so much misery? And what is the point of a non-benevolent God?
9-14 Increasingly skeptical, including from a Scientific view point.
15-16 At this age, I was a commited Atheist.
17-25 (my age now) - A 'Radical' Atheist, (as Douglas Adams once put it), on emotional, rational, contemplative and scientific levels.
2007-09-20 10:35:52
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answered by Golgi Apparatus 6
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I've been an athiest for 55 years or so. I'll soon be 70 & began to ask too many questions about religion at about age 12. My parents were only too happy to agree when I decided I would no longer attend church, as my questions tended to embarress them & other church members. I decided I'd get an education in the scientific field & seek some of those answers to my questions. "God's will," never made a lot of sense to me and the story of creation was what really made up my mind about religion & associated mythology.
2007-09-20 10:38:11
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answered by Anonymous
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Mom's father was a Baptist pastor, so I was strongly brainwashed with the Bible in my early years. My siblings dare not even question the family religion, but I was questioning it by age 7. I was forced to attend church regularly, but I did not believe the stuff I heard there. I do not recall exactly when I became a full atheist, but the process began by age 7 and perhaps before that. I was precocious. Mom's parents were both teachers, besides Grampa being a minister, so I had many books to read. Mom says I could read some at age 2. When I started to school, I was reading science books that 6th graders could not comprehend. I saw conflict between science and religion, and science had proof for its ideas, while religion insisted one blindly believe in it. I was born with good eyes and a good brain, so blindness is not acceptable.
2007-09-20 10:33:27
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answered by miyuki & kyojin 7
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I was a fundamentalist Christian until I was around 30, then went to agnostic and to atheist around 40.
I think that having a god should be a good thing, but the ones currently designed by man leave much to be desired and don't work well.
2007-09-20 10:33:27
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answered by Pirate AM™ 7
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I was raised Lutheran, slowly went agnostic around 12-13, and remained there until I realized I was completely an atheist around age 16.
So, about 29-30 years. I'm 45 now.
2007-09-20 10:30:05
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answered by ♥≈Safi≈♥ ☼of the Atheati☼ 6
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I've been one for over 54 years since I was seven and realised many adults believed in invisible guys in the sky.
I was amazed and found it hard to believe ... that adults could be so silly.
Obviously, before I was seven I was an atheist too cos I knew as much about 'god' then as I know now - 'he' doesn't exist.
2007-09-20 10:32:49
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answered by Anonymous
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Been raised as a Christian, but was too young to know that i was an Athiest. Then Athiest turned re-born Christian... years later.
i have a lot of qs too, sometimes i find my answers in the Bible, pray, or just let days go on by and it'll show up.
if none of these works, i just believe by Faith. Its stated in the Bible that the ones who are knowledgable only understands quest. they can put their smarts into, thats why many doubt there is a God, or "the" God.
2007-09-20 10:31:01
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answered by musikartguy05 3
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Started toying with it in Baptist Seminary, but only went as far as being a "Believing Agnostic". Finally came out of the closet spiritually about 10 years ago, when I was 36.
2007-09-20 10:30:22
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answered by Don't Try This At Home 4
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Since I started to be conscious of all pain and death there is in the world. After that nothing could make me believe in an All-Mighty creator that - with all his power to create all reality and life - could embed it with so much suffering and cruelty.
Moreover how can someone believe in such an All-Mighty creator - creating sin and sinners and then punishing them for a thing that he created them to do? He is either powerless or sadist. In both cases this seems to be in contradiction with the idea of an All-Mighty creator of everything...
2007-09-20 10:36:47
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answered by CiberNauta 5
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