Many christians assert that we "left god" because we had a terrible childhood, or something else awful happened in our lives. Is that the case for any of you?
I, personally, am an atheist because I believe god isn't real - not because of my rotten childhood. Thoughts?
2007-10-15 08:48:34 · 24 answers · asked by Nea 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-10-15 09:03:12 · update #1
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2007-10-15 08:59:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've had a bad childhood when I was young and I still do. I turned Atheist simply because I feel that there is an extreme lack of evidenve that God is real. When I was just a little girl, yes, I believed in God but I was raised and taught to do so....Aren't all children? At the age of 12 or 13 I began to question about God and thought really hard whether he was real or not. I do not see any facts....all there is are priests who teach the "word" of God....that is not proof in my opinion.
2007-10-15 09:58:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that you have a Freudian slip ('my rotten childhood') speaks volumes.
Maybe those bad childhoods have a certain amount of influence to get you where you are IE Abandonment issues etc. But ultimately I think you simply gathered your information and made a decision.
I had a decent childhood then durning the 60's as a young adult I left my church now as a mature adult I understand the wisdom & power of faith.
To each his own.
God speed your journey
2007-10-15 09:02:29 · answer #3 · answered by theladygeorge 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Someone up there stated: "These things I learned proved undeniably that the God everyone seems so keen on cannot possibly exist as they say he does, and could not have possibly created the world as they say he did."
I am curious to know what are these "things"?
Personally, I am a believer. I think there are very good reasons to believe and yes, I am in pursuit of a higher education. Atheists try and come off as though education suddenly elimanates God's existence as some icon of childhood, like Santa Claus. It does no such thing. Misinformed, atheistic thought and worldviews may do that, but certainly education has no hand in it. By no means do I think science in any way shape or form even begins to ask or to displace or disprove God's existence. (And no, I'm not a "fundie" and yes I do believe evolution occured). I grow weary of people who think that science has "done away with God" it has not. That is a simply false and truly naive statement. Science never was in a place to do away with God. Science tells us what agents operate in nature not what, if any, agents operate outside of it.
Education and intellectualism, in that sense, has NOTHING to do with believing in God. There are a great many people who are exceedingly intelligent whom believe in God. The statement that having intellect = not believing in God is absurd and laughable and has absolutely no justification whatsoever. Rather, it is the infiltration of a certain mindset or view of the world called atheism, which, looking from its window in the ivory tower of academia, does not think God exists. That is a worldview, not a fact. It is a matter of perspective which many people do not agree with. Many INTELLIGENT people, who do have reasonable informed objections to its postulations. Atheism ignores some very fundamental questions which exist in the heart of man: Where did I come from? Where am I going? Why is there evil? What happens after I die? etc. Also altogether ignoring the fact that SOMETHING cannot come from NOTHING, is just one small issue that atheists seem to explain away or overlook to no reasonable, INFORMED mind's satisfaction.
Stop peddling atheism as though it were some intellectual elitism and religious faith as something for the barbaric and idiotic. There is no justification in that. Merely stating that over and over ad naseum is not proving anything. Anyone who thinks that way is abysmally ignorant of the philosophic thought and reasoned defense of God's existence.
2007-10-15 09:23:12 · answer #4 · answered by Spiffs C.O. 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I had a rocking childhood. Reasonably wealthy family, great parents. I'm atheist because I actually went to school, and college, and learned things. These things I learned proved undeniably that the God everyone seems so keen on cannot possibly exist as they say he does, and could not have possibly created the world as they say he did.
2007-10-15 08:58:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, some will argue the majority of Atheists were former Christians. I did grow up in poverty and I was abused, however, that had little to do why I don't believe in a God. Actually, I was agnostic growing up, but I distress. I didn't find God or religion relevant to my life, because I found it hokey, so.
2007-10-15 08:54:47 · answer #6 · answered by CELTS! 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My ****y childhood caused me to become depressed which then made me realize the lie I had been living as a Christian and so I decided to change religions and become an Atheist after a lot of research.
2007-10-15 08:54:17 · answer #7 · answered by The Return Of Sexy Thor 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason as you, I just don't believe god exist. Leaving god implies that a person in fact believes in the existance of god, which goes against what atheists believe.
2007-10-15 09:00:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I had a great childhood. Great parents, a very close and loving family. I also loved to go to church. It's just that as I got older, the idea of believing in magical, invisible, supernatural beings made less and less sense to me.
2007-10-15 09:27:42 · answer #9 · answered by Jess H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had a great childhood...I was also a child in a Jewish family. My father was an engineer and my mother is a chemist. They both encouraged me to find what was best for me, and told me to never stop searching for truth.
2007-10-15 08:54:59 · answer #10 · answered by ♥ Meme ♥ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I left Christianity behind in fourth grade when I realized it made no sense whatsoever. My childhood was not a bad one.
2007-10-15 08:54:07 · answer #11 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋