what makes you not believe in God?

Question

Did somethin turn away from? Did you once believe or did u never beleive? I am kinda curious to see what people would say!

Answer 1

The fact that there is not one scintilla of evidence for the existence of any god.

Answer 2

The lack of evidence does do it. Now, not everything that I haven't seen are unbelieved. While I don't believe in God, unicorns, or trolls, I do believe in India, although I've never seen it.

But the big difference is that there is nothing to really dispute India's existence. There are some concepts that go against God (or any gods). Mostly, a god that wants to be worshipped will be worshipped by everyone. Atheists wouldn't exist if God's existence were known by all.

And there's the notion that other religions claim that their gods exist while claiming that other gods don't exist. With such contradictions and no evidence to support one over the other, how can I believe in just any one god? As Buffalo Springfield put it: Nobody's right if everybody's wrong.

Incidentally, I did believe in God. I was a good little Christian boy. In high school, I was exposed to other religions and saw just how easily Christians will lie about others in order to make their religion sound good. I realized how easy it is to make yourself believe in what you want to believe.

In a sense, it was kind of like Santa Claus. The big difference is that nobody claims to seriously believe in Santa Claus, so it's easier to reconcile that disbelief. On the other hand, there are millions of Christians, so I had to wonder if they knew something I didn't. But when I saw the millions of Hindus, Muslims, and so forth, I realized that just because a religion has a lot of followers, that doesn't make it the correct one.

Does something bigger than us exist? Possibly. But if that's true, then it doesn't care about us worshipping it. That pretty much leaves the Christian god out of the equation.

Answer 3

Religion was created to unite otherwise ununited people and impose some morals and control. It has no place in the 21st century. There is and can never be any 'proof' of the existence of a 'higher being'. I accept religion brings comfort to millions of believers. What I do not accept is anyone trying to impose their beliefs on others. I have Faith in abundance although religious believers believe they alone have the monopoly on Faith. Personally I don't 'do' blind faith, my belief is in Humanism, Science and that which can be proven. Heaven and Hell are concepts of good and evil as are God and Satan. Nothing more. I do not believe in life after death or reincarnation.

Answer 4

When I was a child our family never really went to church. When I got older I decided on my own that I was going to go with my friend every sunday. Once I got a little older, I started realizing that stuff didn't add up and that most of the events that took place in the bible are almost physically impossible. I then started asking myself and others questions. I would get detention for asking questions like "If we were to confess our sins, why do we confess them to another man, because man is not infallible." I would get yelled at and no one would give me straight answers, so I looked for them on my own. I began using my brain for once instead of someone else using it for me. So I guess it would have to be peoples lack of explanation and telling me "it's complicated" or "God works in mysterious ways" and thinking it's a logical answer.

Answer 5

One can only study History for so long until their belief in God holds them back.

It's a personal decision that all Historians have to make at one point or another: accept that God is not real and continue to learn, or accept that God is real and never again consider something that contradicts that fact.

I chose the root of accepting logic and proof rather than God, and since then I've looked at the world from a broader, more knowledgeable perspective, and I've never regretted it.

Answer 6

I was raised to be a Christian. Now I don't believe in the Christian version of God. I still believe in A God, and his equal, The Goddess. What changed my beliefs? The fact that belief in the Christian God means that there is no free will. At least not beyond the simple things like "should we have spaghetti or tacos for dinner tonight?". In the bible Jesus promises that God will give you anything you ask for in faith and with true belief. Yet everyday millions of prayers go unanswered. I'm not talking about "oh God, please let me win the lottery" A faithful and true couple has served God throughout their lives. As they get old, the wife comes down with cancer and is suffering horribly. Her husband asks God "Please let her suffering end, even if it means that she has to die". She goes on suffering for an additional number of years. Ask a Christian why God did not answer this true and faithful mans prayer and the answer you get is "it wasn't God's will for her suffering to end at that time". If God does not answer prayers that are contrary to HIS WILL, (in spite of his promise to give the faithful anything they pray for) then it is impossible for us mere mortals to have any free will of our own. This is why my beliefs and my religion have changed from Christian to Wiccan.

Answer 7

No evidence,the fact the bible is written by man and edited and sieved through before it was given to the people,then others,James,Lutherians etc re-wrote it as they saw fit,human nature and it's quest for power and subjugation,the track record of the church,the fanaticism that cost millions upon millions of lifes and still does today..the list is endless

Answer 8

Not a very original question.

There just is no evidence of gods or supernatural beings. I grew up in a Christian home, was always skeptical of the whole thing eventually came out of the "atheist closet". No bad thing happened.

Answer 9

I was catholic. I tried to make sense of the whole God thing, and it was just not working for me. I realized that the only reason I "believed" was because that's how I was raised. So I just left the religion thing and things make a lot more sense as an atheist.

Answer 10

The lack of evidence

I believed when I was a kid. I didn't know any better.

When I got older, I really fought to keep faith in god. However, as time went on, I ran out of excuses for why god didn't seem to be there. I quit caring because I didn't fell the love everyone told me I should feel.

Being an atheist has freed me from the trap of irrational belief.

Answer 11

I used to believe in God, then I believed in Gods, and now I don't believe in any of it. There is no evidence that there is a God, and plenty of evidence that there isn't. I wasn't raised as anything, really, so there's no reason for me to be religious.