if u dont beleive in GOD, is that because you were brought up as a non beleiver?

Question

i grew up as a catholic and still am, and going by yahoo in this section there are so many people who dont beleive in God,,,
is it because you were brought up with no religion?,, or did you just make your own mind up as you grew up?,,, just curious why people have no faith in God,xxxxxx

Answer 1

Believe it or not out of my household of 8 people I was the only one who had a belief, for a while I questioned God then gods, and finally atheist somewhat. I still personally after having left home, have my own means now, I believe there is something or someone in charge but nothing as we have all stated as of yet, no real information, soon enough though. Uncle is Christian, half others in fam are Baptist and biological father, well --whatever you tell him he's on the wagon (no real thought for himself). I also have a retarded older brother, born fine got sick as a baby and bam, mentally handicapped, he is believing whatever my mother feeds him, so in a way if your brought up a certain way you'll believe in that faith.

Same goes for anything, including but not limited to sexuality.

Answer 2

Atheists can be compared to Microscopes. An atheist not believing in a higher power is like the microscope that tries to study the whole wide earth with its limited lenses. So what if religion does cause mostly war and destruction, it's like ignoring the truth just because it hurts. A Higher Power does exist, simply because we are very limited creatures, with limited intelligence, and we perish and die out easily, why should we be so confident of what we can physically deduce from our 'senses' and what those scientists say. You can't put the whole wide world under a microscope, I don't care if it's got super high powered lenses or if it's made by NASA. Humans suck and humans are weak and pathetic. There are way too many things we have yet to learn, why deny the possibility of anything that exists outside our limited 'microscopic' range of sight, like I said you can't use a microscope to look at the world, and you can't use an atheist to track God down. But a microscope will always be a microscope, and atheism is atheism. Remember when they thought the Earth was flat?

Answer 3

i am a deist i still believe in God just not much else.

i was brought up by real strict pentecostals, so really really religious. church 4-5 times a week, tithing, long skirts and everything else the fundies do. i became an atheist at a very very young age cause it was all so fake and stupid. as ive gotten older ive re evaluated myself and my beliefs, i have studied several religions and in the end found myself a deist. i have no religion, i have a philosophy. and that is that God exists, i am to live a moral life, he will merely watch and not interfere. i believe in an afterlife where i will be judged according to how i lived.
i strongly believe church is unecessary and organized religion is at least wrong if not dangerous. i do not believe in pushing my beliefs onto my kids.
so to answer your question i made up my own mind
for me
brought up with too much religion=no religion

Answer 4

I decided to become Catholic at a young age, because I thought everyone else in the world was. Then I became Atheist, because I was introduced to the idea of God not existing and it got me thinking and made things more clear. But years later, I realized I was Agnostic.

So basically my mind just kept thinking and I had an open-mind of possiblities which led me to believe that I don't know anything 100 percent.

Answer 5

I grew up going to church every SUN day. Then didn't go at all for a long time, and was an atheist. Then I became a "Christian" for a short time, and it made me an even bigger atheist, it was a good way to get me to read the bible though so now I can really argue with the Christians about their fake religion based upon basic astronomy and astrology, that's right inside very own book.

Answer 6

I was also a catholic and went to two faith schools but now I am a devout atheist.
Christianity is nonsense and most christians are hypocrites. I have yet to meet one who gave all his possessions to the poor to follow christ.
To be more specific about Catholicism. The first seed of doubt was over Transubstantiation. If the Eucharist is really the flesh and blood of Christ and not merely symbolic then eating it amounts to cannibalism

Answer 7

I grew up Southern Baptist, explored Catholicism, studied various types of paganism and found a home as a heathen. My mother and sister followed me out of Christianity.

I made up my mind that Christianity isn't my path at age 19 on my own.

Answer 8

I have seen it referred to here as a conclusion, not a belief. As for me, I believe we are all made of atoms, and that there is some spark called 'life'. I am hesitant to define it further anymore (I was raised in a denomonational tradition, and can describe it well in that particular paradigm) - my hesitancy to define it has to do with my perception that the language that different people use to describe 'life' creates more conflict, hatred and 'sin' than is respectful to the miracle of 'life'. Does that make any sense?

Answer 9

I grew up, born and raised as a good Catholic girl.


When I hit 11, I had the opportunity to break out of that iron box and actually breathe the fresh of of thinking for myself.

Answer 10

I was raised Catholic but stopped believing in God when I grew up.