How was the worst of it?
2007-11-28 21:01:00 · 17 answers · asked by Life goes on... 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I was raised in the Methodist church but knew during the first service I attended I didn't believe.
I went along to get along.
Later, to learn more, I enrolled in a very rightwing Baptist College. I left there as strong an atheist as ever, despite being the top student in every religion class I took. One poor professor, I just couldn't tell him I was atheist even though he had told me my grasp was such I should consider the ministry. I just smiled and thanked him.
But I was born an atheist and expect I shall die an atheist.
2007-11-28 21:49:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I consider I began realising the inconsistencies among what we have been taught in important institution meeting and at church, and with what we have been taught in technological know-how, and even the truth that "cavemen" existed. I imply how are you able to instruct a child that Adam and Eve's children constructed towns, however then instruct them that early guy lived in caves and had very elementary gear? To be sincere, I can see why the devout forms desire to maintain whatever that contradicts their ideals out of colleges. It obviously does a task of convincing children that some thing's no longer proper. I'd say I used to be 12-14 whilst I honestly idea approximately the life of the god I'd been raised to think in and realised that it did not particularly make feel and that rather plenty of the matters that we have been taught certainly were not precise such because the Bible being anyplace close proper, prayers being replied, and many others. Of path I did have an curiosity in international mythology from a tender age and the comparisons among the ones older religions and present day ones are really obvious.
2016-09-05 16:32:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't believe a lot of the concepts in the bible. People cannot live in the belly of a whale. Seas cannot part. The tower of babel did not cause our different languages.
I also didn't believe people were as bad as the churches made them seem. I don't think an atheist doctor who saves children's lives everyday is going to hell. And sometimes I thought it was too forgiving. I don't think a man who raped a child but then became christian and saved is going to heaven.
I guess I'm not 100% atheist. I don't not believe in god, but I don't think its the kind of god that is being preached about. I'm open to the concept as long as the story seems realistic. Maybe a mother earth god? Thats what I'm believing in until someone has a better idea.
2007-11-28 21:11:51 · answer #3 · answered by tobyman 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Years of growing up in a religious family and going to Catholic schools from K-12. The more I heard/learnt the less sense it made to believe in it. I'm not atheist though; I am agnostic.
2007-11-28 21:08:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
A years-long existential crisis. The worst of it was from about 1990 thru 1996.
2007-11-28 21:25:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The standard reason to drop "christian" and use "athiest" is vocabulary . The seekers dont want to use the word god for "the boss" and so they say "I dont know". Many still remain religious in their devotion to group loyality and are happy to go to the pagan festivals in the summer and enjoy the fun.
2007-11-29 04:37:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is theology based.
If you have trust in you, then you trust God.
If you trust the non-existence of God, you can claim
as being an atheist.
Nobody can be an atheist as long birth ,which is an accident,
and death,.which is a certainty exist
Your questions has no meaning in itself.
You are unable to ask for something that you want to know.
You have got to be more specific and
your question should be understandable
enabling to furnish you with an answer
2007-11-28 21:17:28 · answer #7 · answered by tmuthiah 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I wouldnt say Im an atheist but I just have my own belief now and Im quite happy staying the way that I am now.
I devote myself to my life,family,friends and God not to a church.The church is just a building, God is the real deal.
2007-11-28 21:08:39 · answer #8 · answered by ¸¸.•*´`*♥ Selah 21 ¸¸.•*´`*♥ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I told a priest that I was having doubts about the reality of there being a God. He told me to get out of his church and come back when I believed. Wrong answer. I ain't been back.
2007-11-28 21:32:45 · answer #9 · answered by dallas 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A lot of people grow up not paying attention to their religion or having any religion influence. That's what happened to me.
2007-11-29 22:19:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋