Athiests who were once christian only.. why did you leave the faith?

Question

why did u stop believing in Christ , the bible.
why did u become an unbeliever after professing christ.
if this doesnt apply to you and u were always an athiest, then please save it.

Answer 1

1Jn 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have remained with us; but they left so that it might be revealed that they all are not of us.

One who is truly born of the Spirit, indwelt with the Spirit and given the faith to believe, will not leave the One who saved them, forgave them and justified them.

Joh 18:9 (that the Word might be fulfilled which He said, "Of those whom You gave to Me, I lost not one of them)."

Answer 2

‘Gods’ and magic are probably the most simplistic excuses ignorant primitives have ever imagined explaining some thing. "If the perception in God had been typical, there might be no must educate it. Children might own it as good as adults, the layman because the priest, the heathen up to the missionary. We do not need to educate the normal factors of human nature--the 5 senses, seeing, listening to, smelling, tasting, and feeling. They are common; so might faith be if it had been typical, however it's not. On the opposite, it's an fascinating and demonstrable truth, that every one kids are atheists, and had been faith no longer inculcated into their minds they might stay so. Even as it's, they're satisfactory skeptics, till made intelligent of the robust weapon wherein faith has ever been propagated, specifically, worry--worry of the lash of public opinion right here, and of a jealous, vindictive God hereafter. No; there is not any faith in human nature, nor human nature in faith. It is only synthetic, the outcomes of schooling, whilst atheism is typical, and, had been the human brain no longer perverted and bewildered by way of the mysteries and follies of superstition, might be common." Ernestine Rose, in A Defense of Atheism, 1878 See that 12 months once more? 1878... Atheism is NOT a brand new phenomena... ~

Answer 3

Well Barbie since you asked, I 'll be glad to tell you how I became an atheist!
It was because of you, and people like you! I was LDS! and you, and your oh, so delightful co-horts, would slice, and dice, ans slander, or slur my religion at every turn! You made fun of Holy ceremonies, and everything to do with them! Every little thing in the history of the church was disected, and torn to shreds! Each and every fragment of the church was put up for inspection, not to investigate, but to destroy!
You took each and every thing that I believed, and turn it from gold,.in to dross! I can only hope that some day, you can know the joy, of what you took from me! If you can find it, hold on to it! Don't let someone like you, rip your heart out, b/c they are bored, or in a malicious mood!
And after you stripped my faith , there was nothing left, and I started to look for something to fill the hole, and this was what found i! This filled the gaps in! And I am quite content now!

So, when can I expect your attacks to begin on this?

Answer 4

It was a slow transition from belief to total disbelief. As a young child, I believed everything authority figures told me, as kids tend to do. I believed all the bible stories, that God hears your prayers, and that there is a heaven and a hell, one of which you go to after you die. As an adolescent or a teenager, I determined that many of the bible stories were, at best, allegorical, because many were just physically impossible (parting a sea, living inside a whale...), but held on to the idea that there was an entity that could hear my thoughts and cared about me. As a teenager, I basically forgot about religion, stopped going to church, and stopped reading the bible, as I didn't feel like I was learning anything. Church, to me, seemed like a sad place where lonely people went to feel like they were a part of something. In college, a course in eastern religion piqued my interest. I took a hard look at what I used to believe, put it in its proper context of just one religious belief among many, and saw all religion for what it is: superstition. The long and short of it is that I grew up.

Answer 5

Yes, I used to be Christian. It didn't make sense to me. I had questions as a child. I started really reading the Bible as a teenager and was so repulsed by God. Was this really my God? Was this a God I could really worship if it were God? I wanted to believe because my family and many friends did. So I started studying the Bible. I went to Bible study classes and learned the apologetic responses to all the things that don't make much sense if you look too closely. They sounded contrived to me, made up circular reasoning to allow people to believe what they wanted to believe. The more I studied the more I came to the conclusion it was created by humans to teach ideas but wasn't actually a literal tale that necessarily represented God if it existed.

I began studying outside sources of information and historical evidence. I learned too many things to go into detail here. The authors of the Bible widely employed what is known as midrash in writing the stories. This was taking existing stories and myths and inserting your own heros and deities and maybe adding a twist to get your particular idea across. This is particularly striking when you look at the story of Jesus. It bears striking resemblence to many preexisting pagan deities from virgin births, to ressurection, performance of miracles, etc...

So what I find wrong is it doesn't jibe with any sense of reality. I don't think God would give us a day to day reality so different from that depicted in the Bible and no evidence of itself and yet expect us to blindly believe or it will burn us in hell. I don't believe that a deity of perfect knowledge would be so wrathful and cruel and arbitrary as it is represented in the Old Testament. I don't think we would have failed prophecy, or that had to be "reinterpreted" in order to get it to not have failed if it were the handed down word of God that God expected to make sense to most people. I don't believe Christianity is representative of reality but I don't think Islam or Judaism is either.

I believe however, in every persons right to their beliefs and their own spiritual/intellectual journey. It only disturbs when people are dishonest or not accepting of other's differences. Peace.

Answer 6

I started thinking about it. The only reason I was a christian, as opposed to an atheist or any other religion, was because my parents and entire family are christian.

Nothing bad happened
I don't hate god
when you put everything in perspective all religion just falls apart for me. You might have different experiences, and good for you, but I don't buy it and I'm not living it.

Answer 7

I realized that the "unexplained" is not evidence of Gods' existence

A. Just because scientists haven't figured out everythiing yet doesn't mean we should pass them off as being the supernatural. That would be nothing but assumptions, not facts.

B. So called "miracles" are not evidence. (Testimonies are never investigated)

C. "Delusions" are not evidence. Mentally ill people see things that aren't there all the time

D. The "bible" is not evidence. It's all hearsay. So many contradictions. http://www.evilbible.com How many times has it been rewritten?

E. A "feeling" is not evidence. "Feelings" have mislead people to death

F. "Faith" is not evidence. "Faith" is a mental block that prevents people from checking to see if the belief is actually true

G. The "majority" believing in God is not evidence. The masses have always been wrong about beliefs. Check your history

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Answer 8

Like Eleventy said, I was tired of trying to force myself to believe something which sounded nice, comforting, and convenient, and instead focused on what I knew to be reality. You see, magical, wishful thinking isn't enough for me to believe my problem has been solved.

The belief in god may seem natural because as humans, we are very curious to understand the natural world around us. Just saying things like "God did it" gets us nowhere, and I take it as being lazy and intentionally ignorant when someone leaves questions open like that simply because its easy to think we have a "magical sky-daddy" looking over us, so to speak.

I may be being very blunt here, but think of it this way. You're telling me that a magical cosmic Jewish zombie, who is his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master and savior so that he can remove an evil force from your soul, because a rib-woman was convinced, by a talking snake with legs, to eat an apple from a magical tree.

And people who are NOT so gullible and unwilling to learn and understand (atheists) have something wrong with them, according to most Christian views. Sounds like a load of BS to me.

Answer 9

The lack of evidence. At some point, during all my worship, I realized that the "warm fuzzy" feelings were all in my head.

In the end, there isn't any evidence for god.

Answer 10

I was sorta Christian once.

As I'm not much of a scientific or philosophical person, my reasoning is simple: I lost interest. The Bible was boring, the priest was boring, church was boring, and none of it made any logical sense on top of it all.