Atheists, what was your previous religion/denomination?

Question

Just curious.

38 results so far and not a single one said Islam; they must be doing well.

Answer 1

Catholic...wow....a lot of used-to-be-Catholics out there...o_o

Answer 2

Before I was an atheist, I was an atheist.

Although I did go to Catholic school, I never actually believed a word of it.

There was a short period of doubt when a carrot I left out for the "Easter Bunny" actually had what appeared to be gliriform incisor toothmarks in the remaining stump. For a short time (almost 30 min), I was willing to accept that the Easter Bunny, for one, just might exist. However, experimentation with a different carrot revealed that human incisors can create that same pattern with careful nibbling, and later research revealed that rabbits eat the stump - they don't leave it behind with tooth marks on it.

Since then, it's been atheist all the way.

Answer 3

I was born with no religion, like every child is. Then I was christened in the Church of England, but I had no choice I was less than a year old and can't have known what it was all about.

I never went inside a church until I was 8, when my mother decided the family should be Catholic, like her. I followed in her footsteps of never going into church from one year's end to the next. She said she doesn't go because, though she believes, she thinks you should WANT to go, and she just doesn't want to. I chose not to go for another reason. It's a crock!

Answer 4

I was just born Curious . Asked questions as a child . My religion i guess was CURIOSITY, if you could call it that . Then somewhere along the line I began to waver between being an "AGNOSTIC " and an "Atheist " I still am wavering .
Atheist at the moment .

Answer 5

Raised more or less Protestant, became a Born Again as a teenager...slowly started drifting away from the church, but still identified as a Christian. Then identified as a believer, but not a Christian. Then became what I am today: a Born Again Atheist.

Answer 6

some aspects are subtly hidden contained in the recesses of my techniques, and easily come to gentle even as i'm confronted with certain circumstances. in the previous I were given married, my spouse (who's a Christian) had a lesbian pal, and my lack of self assurance led to me to reject her pal and use God because the excuse. I knew more suitable suitable, yet i change into fairly attempting to change right into a Christian again, inspite of all that I knew about international religions. for sure, the guilt ate at me, understanding that i did not fairly matter on Christianity no matter how complicated i attempted, and that the in simple terms reason i change into rejecting her pal change into because it really is what the religion taught as well to reinforcing my own insecurities. ultimately, I gave up the charade and got here out of the altar. I owe her pal an apology, and that i fairly do go with to furnish it to her in man or woman. regrettably, I alienated her again even as i change into attempting to be Christian, and he or she has on condition that moved to a distinct state. I nevertheless sense guilt for a fashion I dealt with her again then. "Hate the sin, love the sinner", to me is an identical as declaring in simple terms straightforward hate, and that i'm ashamed that I took area in that. Now, even as ever I honestly have gut reactions to issues that look unfair, I ask myself the position it got here from, and if it really is quite sturdy or undesirable. i'm wondering my thoughts and reactions so a lot more suitable than I used to, and that i have change right into a more suitable suitable man or woman for it.

Answer 7

I was never religious. I was interested in christianity but I approached it as just a kind of myth and although I was interested the more I learned the more I realised it was all nonsense. Learning about science made me firmer in such views.

I decided to seek out the truth, even if that's not what i would want to hear.

Answer 8

Presbyterian turned Buddhist turned Atheist.

Answer 9

God made me a Atheist the day I was born ... and I am going to be the best darn Atheist I can be :) .. My Mother was a Roman Catholic and my Father a Muslim

Answer 10

Presbyterian

Answer 11

Presbyterian