Atheists who were previously Christan?

Question

When did you come to the point where you no longer questioned if the Christian god was real or not.

I had been an atheist for years, but only recently came to the conclusion that Christianity is completely wrong. It literally took years for me to come to this point. I often questioned if I was wrong, and even tried to believe a few times that God was real. The thing is, I wanted to have that comfort that Christians have, to know that I would be reunited with my family. It took a long time to accept that it was wrong. After looking at other mythologies, and recognizing the fact it became rather clear that Christianity was wrong.

What was the pivotal point when you finally realized that Christianity was incorrect? Mine was when I found that there were no records of Jesus.. Of course, for me there were more reasons that I do no believe but that was the the pivotal point.

Now I feel a relief I had never experienced before, that I pushed past a point of disbelief to knowledge.

Depsite the fear I had at one time that Hell existed, and I could be saved I now I feel a comfort that while I don't know everything, I atleast know the Bible is wrong and I know to look for answers elsewhere.

This account was created for the sole purpose of when my main account gets banned, which is inevitable.. We Atheist do not last very long on Y!A when being honest.

skylolo,

I am still agnostic.

Answer 1

I don't really consider that I ever was a xian although I was raised that way

I remember being about 8 and realising that the idea of a god existing was really kind of silly - like the idea of Santa exisitng.

Since then I've found out that there really is no evidence that any god exists

No contemporary evidence that Jesus ever existed either

Answer 2

Congratulations for your intellectual courage and emotional strength. Most theists I've seen on her really do not understand that what they want to be true, isn't what's necessarily true.

You obviously have. Yes, it'd be nice if loved one we'd lost were waiting for us when we died, but it'd be nicer if we didnt lose them at all, and that doesnt stop it being real.

I was never a Christian as such, I just liked the idea of religion for a while - I'd grown up reading about Greek myth (it had the best monsters) and it was just another mythology to me so I never took it too seriously. It was only when I started to take a heavy interest in science did I realise that religion was totally redundant and unnecessary. Worse, it holds back the human race. I'm glad you feel relief - I don't think anyone becomes an atheist to feel better about the universe but some people think the truth has value, whether its something we want to hear or not.

Answer 3

I was raised a Baptist but never actually believed in it even at an early age.It was not until I reached my twenties and actually read the Bible front to back(3 times)that I changed from just not caring one way or the other to being an outright atheist.Well it was that and the overwhelming amount of hypocrisy that I encountered among so many of the religious right.

Answer 4

I have read answers to questions like this before. In almost ALL of them, those former 'Christians' were not really Christians: they didn't have a commitment and love to God in the first place. A typical profile goes something like this : My parents were Christians and I attended church with them when I was young but I never really understood or accepted Christianity. Then, in high school, my biology teacher taught me about evolution, etc..........

On the other hand, I do know of former committed and highly educated evolutionists/atheists who became Christians.

Answer 5

i was a christion, now an athiest. i still question everything. my whole family is christion and my mum says i will go to hell if i dont believe, blah blah blah. i cant to the conclution that chritianity was crap when i was about 18 and realised that the bible is so contradictory, and if you take it into modern day most of the people in the bible would be in jail or have asbos its laughable. at the begining of the bible, around gen 13, lot lates his daughters into a cave where they get him drunk and mate with him, then have his kids!!!!! the bible is sick, and wrong. yet... there are days where i wonder what if it is true... what happens after death then?

Answer 6

Do you believe what you are saying to be truth? If you truly believe anything that takes faith because you are believing something apart from others that believe other things. Number one if yu believe something it takes faith. Number two truth and God are the same things. Jesus was a creative miracle sent from the Father to bring the reality of humans back to us. He made the mind avalible that we were suppose to have in the first place. You were made in the image of truth and if you do not accept this truth then you are playing with less of a deck then you can have.

Answer 7

Since I stopped being afraid of traps like hell/fear of god , etc

This is where i got courage to critically assess my religion (islam in my case) and all other religions.
and I felt pathetic for myself whay I had been beleiving in all this crap living in the 21st centuary, when science is the visible and obvious magic all around me.....

Since then, every new day makes me a stronger atheist

Answer 8

I had drifted from organized religion for throughout my high school years. It wasn't till I learned that learning was fun in my college years that I started studying theology because of the ridiculousness of the biblical stories. The more I studied them, the more ridiculous they sounded thus drove my desire to learn more. So my answer is, I came out of my Atheist "closet" in my early 20's.

Answer 9

I think God will except your decision. That's how free will works. You are free to believe or not believe.

You said you will now seek answers elsewhere.
What questions will you be asking, now that you don't have to worry about God?

(nonsarcastic comment)

Answer 10

It is my thinking that the only claim we can make on immortality is through our children. If we have no children then our relatives children are the next best.
I try to make life easier for them and try to make it so they have a better life with better odds of surviving into the future.