Atheist/Agnostic, Why did you convert to it from Christians?

Question

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Survey said that most atheism/agnostic come from christians belief, would you mind to share the reason you convert to what you belief today

please honest answer only... hopefully christians people can pick up some advises from you mates!


peace

Answer 1

After spending my early life in the church as a minister's son, then majoring in religion, then attending seminary for a year, I came to realize that what I was talking about no longer seemed to make sense with the reality of the world. It helped that I came out as a gay man, because the crazy things said about gay people by Christians and the Bible were so far out of sync with what I saw and experienced, it exposed the entire belief system of Christianity to scrutiny I had never before given it. Once I shined a light on it, theism of any kind failed measure up to even the slightest test of verifiability and reason. And the superstitious nature of it became so apparent that I was surprised it had taken me so long to see through it.

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Answer 2

I reached the age of reason, went "wait a minute," and started actually analyzing the things I had been taught as a child to take for granted.

The more I searched, the less sense it made. Soon after, I was atheist.

The reason I went from Christian to atheist instead of Christian to another religion was because I quickly realized that every theistic religion has the same "extraordinary claims but no evidence" foundation.

As far as secular religions, I don't know, never really looked into them. Then again, atheism is not an exclusive term--if one day I were to consider myself a Humanist, I would still be atheist, since I still don't believe in a god or gods. The concept just doesn't make sense, what can I say?

Answer 3

My age hit double digits and I began to think more deeply and rationally about the world around and what I believed. I realized that the Christian beliefs I had were basically just what my family had instructed me to believe and were not supported by any of my experience or logic. Once I began to question my beliefs, I sought counsel from the elders in my family. They basically told me to pray and read my Bible, but I was expecting better answers than that. The fact that people 4 and 5 times my age couldn't give me rational or supported answers to my basic questions really discouraged me from believing any more. And since my beliefs no longer made sense to me, I dropped them by age 12. Nothing has convinced me to believe again in the past 10 years.

Answer 4

Because I lived in a community with a dominant religion that condemned me for my different (but also Christian) religion, even though the dominant religion in that community is a minority nationwide, and is considered weird and non-Christian globally.

I tired of the defeated feeling that no matter what you do, you are wrong. What's the point? Someone is always condemning me to hell, and have been doing that since I was old enough to understand what hell was. So, really, to hell with that. If I'm damned from the start, then I'm just not going to care.

Answer 5

I wasn't happy. I never felt like I was free to be myself and to truly express my own beliefs. And one day when I was about 15 my father walked out on us, our relationship began to disintegrate until there was nothing left. I prayed daily for help or some answer as to why this would happen and nothing ever came. It's been 8 years since the day I lost all faith in god and started to realize my true beliefs. I am now happy and feel like I am leading my life on the correct path.

Answer 6

The survey is wrong.
People are born atheist/agnostic, learn a religion, then decide to go back to atheism/agnosticism. People are born with no beliefs. DNA only passes biological traits from your father and mother and not ideas such as religion, evolution, time, math, reading, etc... those are all learned.

Answer 7

I did it when I was supposed to get confirmed in 8th grade. I was always a science geek and a history buff at the Catholic school I went to, but something didn't sit well with me with the religion. I just never bought into it. It always seemed odd to me; I never really bought into Santa or the suchlike either. Finally, I came to the conclusion that I didn't really believe there was enough evidence for ME to believe in such a thing as a god. All the other gods weren't real, so why was this one special.

I actually remember one time, shortly after refusing to get confirmed, I took a trip to Las Vegas with my father. I was at the hotel pool and I was talking to some other kids who brought up god. I told them that I didn't believe in god and explained to them what I thought about evolving. The girl made fun of me for saying that I came from a monkey. I always thought that was weird, but I wasn't mad about it. I just left and went to play video games at the Luxor.

Anyway, like I said, I just didn't buy into what they were selling. I took a lot of heat from my Catholic Italian and Black family members, but they got over it. I just couldn't get confirmed and commit myself to god if I didn't truly believe.

Answer 8

Actually, what led me to agnosticism was a rather thorough study of Christian Theology and the History of Christianity.

Answer 9

hello, can't say that i know exactly when it happened or if there was a catalyst. i simply do not believe. thats all. my family was episcopalian and catholic. nice people. they accept that i do not believe. i accept that they do. i really cant say that being raised in a christian religion had much to do with what i do or do not believe now.

Answer 10

I'm an atheist because gods don't exist and I accept that fact of reality.