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I've always been one siince about 17 (27 now) but wanted to believe in god and all that jazz....christianity just never clicked with me because there were just too many questions and things that made zero sense....so I've always been an atheist...how about you?

2007-09-20 03:23:38 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

30 answers

I've been an atheist for well over 30 years now.

2007-09-20 03:26:47 · answer #1 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 3 1

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 · answer #2 · answered by Golgi Apparatus 6 · 2 0

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 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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 · answer #4 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 2 1

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 · answer #5 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 2 0

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 · answer #6 · answered by ♥≈Safi≈♥ ☼of the Atheati☼ 6 · 2 0

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 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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 · answer #8 · answered by musikartguy05 3 · 0 1

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 · answer #9 · answered by Don't Try This At Home 4 · 2 0

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 · answer #10 · answered by CiberNauta 5 · 1 0

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