if so, how do you feel about that? do you like the way your life is now?
2007-10-08 18:32:26 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sure, when I was like 7 years old, I believed in Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny too!!
How did I feel? Well, I believed everything my parents told me and being 7 years old, I don't think I really cared.
Do I like my life? I love my life.
2007-10-08 18:35:07 · answer #1 · answered by Stedway 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sure I did. I came from a good church going Catholic family. My grandmother was even a novice for many years before she left the convent to raise a family. I was in my 20s when I started to question my beliefs and it wasn't until I was 40 or so that I became fully atheist. I don't feel anything about it. It was what I was taught. My life is fine. I am as happy as I was as a believer. Maybe even happier. Believe it or not I can be a good moral honest person with out the threat of the ultimate punishment (that is a sign of adulthood in my opinion).
2007-10-09 01:45:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I did. I think it was me subconciously needing a father figure of some sort in my life....or perhaps guidance that was never getting from my parents.......guidance that was never received. All I got from religion was guilt, fear, and even more questions. I didn't think that believing in a supposed "loving God" should mean that I have to constantly feel guilty, fearful, and doubtful.]
Yes, I love the way my life is now. Right now, I believe in being a good person. I live my life to fullest because I believe its the only one I'm going to have. And if there is a God and a heaven, by chance.....I think that I've led a good enough life that would earn me a spot there.
2007-10-09 01:39:05 · answer #3 · answered by Abby C 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't too long ago that I had commited all of my life to Jesus Christ by pledging my life in a prayer. Like many people on here, I thought that that would be enough to change my outlook on life. I thought the clouds would part, and eternal happiness would be bestown upon me. And why shouldn't I have? That's what all evangelical christians attest to. I was brought up by an evangelical family, in an evangelical community in an evangelical city in an evangelical state in the midwest. It is sometimes surprising to witness the ways in which this choice can affect you when you are brought up with a background similar to mine, and sometimes I question my non-belief. I think I am just as happy as before, I am still the same person, but I do believe that atheists in this area are sometimes looked upon as provocateurs just looking for attention, and even worse hell bound satanists who hate god (that's stupidity, but it's not an exageration).
2007-10-09 03:13:48 · answer #4 · answered by justin r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes i did. But i remember from my very childhood i questioned many things about religion, and finally when i was 15, i knew that i didn't believe in any god. I feel i was young and didn't really had the guts to deny a place of comfort like god. I love the way of my life now, no more trying to convince myself that i believe in god.
2007-10-09 01:56:04 · answer #5 · answered by krishnokoli 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did, because as a child I had no idea there was an alternative. Everybody I met was a theist, nobody ever discussed atheism and it was just a fact of life that God existed, I thought.
I still believed it when I was older, but didn't ascribe to any denomination of Christianity (the only religion I had exposure to). I have never been the type of person to think about the future, so I didn't worry much about afterlives or anything like that.
Mostly I feel I was just not curious about religion back then, so allowed myself to be ignorant in my views. Once I took an active interest in religion and started researching, I deconverted within 2 years.
And I am much happier now! I've learned more about science and discovered an interest in human brain research thanks to my questioning of religion. It's also made me think much more about my own morality and ethics.
2007-10-09 01:39:01 · answer #6 · answered by Rin 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I did. I'm actually the child of Christian missionary parents. I'm fine with that, I loved my childhood, just never was I close to the whole "God" idea...
I respect those that believe but I am now happy being a Buddhist I'm fairly content with my life but of course it can always use some improvement..
2007-10-09 02:00:21 · answer #7 · answered by ✡ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was once an atheist. Psychedelics changed that. I now see that reality is so far off from how we see it. There is so much more than this physical world. Science and Organized religion both have no clue. Anyone who takes DMT will no longer be an atheist....guaranteed. DMT is produced naturally in the brain durning REM sleep (dreaming).
The DMT experience is short, but generally incredibly intense. Onset is fast and furious, sometimes compared to being launched from a cannon. It is a fully engaging and enveloping experience of visions and visuals which varies greatly from one individual to the next. Users report visiting other worlds, talking with alien entities, profound changes in ontological perspective, fanciful dreamscapes, frightening and overwhelming forces, complete shifts in perception and identity followed by an abrupt return to baseline
http://youtube.com/watch?v=grcqs9cDuN8
2007-10-09 01:38:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I love the way my life is now, I used to be a baptist, went to church 3 times a week. I would rather live life knowing the truth rather then pretending, it just feels better.
2007-10-09 01:48:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I did, when I was younger and more naive, but I've always had my doubts. I'm not proud of it. I love the way my life is now. There is a word for believing in things without proof... ahh, its gullible.
2007-10-09 01:36:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋