ATHEISTS ONLY, why?

Question

Just out of curiosity , why did you want to become an atheist?

Answer 1

Atheists don't "become" atheists! They just don't believe in gods!

Answer 2

EDUCATION. "The best cure for Christianity is READING the bible."-Mark Twain.

Faith is believing in something without the benefit of proof or evidence. When you start really looking at what some of the religions are CLAIMING, there is alot of evidence that contradicts the 'faith'.

Life with Christianity, prety much every tenet of Christianity is listed in its own bible as ABOMINATIONS to their own god.
Hosea 13:2 Human Sacrifice as a sin offering---ABOMINATION

Jeremiah 32:35 Offering up such sacrifice on HIGH PLaces, like Mt. Calvary--- ABOMINATION

Leviticus 7:22/ Hos 7:14/ Hos 8:13 Communion---ABOMINATION

Deut 13/ Matt 23:15 Converting People--ABOMINAITON

Deut 4:15-16 Defining ‘Jesus’ as God---Abomination

Often times, Christian Propaganda likes to paint atheists as 'haters' and/or lunatics. Though from my experience atheists traditionally are more knowledgeable on scripture and history then the theists. Many times, theists need atheists to tell them what is in their own scriptures.

One should also note that the term atheist under the early greek defintion merely meant a person that had to set dogma or tenets of faith, a religion--so agnostics would have been defined as atheistic. The Christians changed the definitions in the 18th century with the rise of Darwin and the evolutionary sciences.

Answer 3

Nobody decides to "become" an atheist.

There are people who have reason and logic, who actually think for themselves, read, study and explore the world around them.

These thinking, usually well-educated people, can clearly discern that there is no heaven and no hell and no gigantic mythical being that lives "up there" who judges everything and knows what each and every person in the world is thinking at any time.

They simply don't believe the fairytales written by ignorant men who have been dead for thousands of years.

It's not a choice - atheism is a logical conclusion.

Answer 4

I began to wonder why people from particular parts of the world tended to follow the same religion--in the Middle East, Islam. In Europe, Christianity...etc. I wondered why, that if Christianity was the true faith, then why wouldn't everyone in the world turn out to be Christians?

That leads me to suspect that different ideas evolved independently in different parts of the world and that all religions must therefore be made up by humans. I don't mean to offend you or anyone else, it's just the way I truly feel.

Will I discover the truth when I die? I don't know because I don't know what exactly happens when we die. No one's ever lived to tell about it. To say that I DO know would, to me, be arrogant.

Answer 5

I didn't want to be a atheist i am one.

I could turn that around and ask christians why did you want to become a christian? At least half would reply it was their parents- so they were forced into it. I was one of these until i grew some brain cells and realised i could think for myself instead of having someone fake think for me!

Atheism was and is a conclusion to all the questions i had that no priest or father or whatever could answer.

Answer 6

I didn't want to, per se. In fact, I was brought up by a minister's daughter & went to church every Sunday, Bible class & choir also.
Over the years, I was saved 8 or 9 times, & I must say I found it very disappointing as nothing had changed.
So you see, I tried very hard to believe in god, I just got tired of expending so much effort with no result.
It wasn't really a choice. It just happened.

Answer 7

I'm an agnostic. I became an agnostic because I realized how silly it is to support the theory of hundreds of years of men who have altered, erased, and added parts to the Bible. It's ridiculous and pathetic. I don't know what's correct in religion if anything, but I don't think that it's just "There's no God"... I'm waiting to find out because that is the only thing I want to believe here.

Answer 8

"The most preposterous notion that H. Sapiens has up dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not recieve this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history." - Robert Heinlein

Answer 9

It's not something I 'wanted' to become, it is something I just am. It's as much a part of me as my red hair or blue eyes. Even though over the years I lied to myself and tried to ~conform~ I never deep down believed that deities are real and I've always believed that religion was really nothing more than a tool used for social control.

Answer 10

I didn't want to. I wanted to believe in a god.

But, when I examined the likelihood of an all-knowing, all-powerful creator/father deity, I was left with no choice but to be an atheist.