Atheist! i still dont get it! Did you learn to be an athiest or were you born that way?

Question

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ib-centra: that the same answer you gave me last time...just give it to me straight from your mouth..dont wanna hear about your reasons if you gonna quote from the Book of Atheist...or any book that an atheist wrote

ib-centra: that the same answer you gave me last time...just give it to me straight from your mouth..dont wanna hear about your reasons if you gonna quote from the Book of Atheist...or any book that an atheist wrote

most of you sound like us most of the believers here on R&S...you sidestepping the question and start generalising. give me personal belief (of the non-evidence) in NO GOD.

FearEmbodied: LOL i like your name!...anywayz thank you!...i understand what youre saying...in fact i havent thought about it that way...being born oblivious...that makes sense to me. it makes more sense than saying i was born atheist or born christian or born homosexual or born heterosexual. would it be fair of me to say that you taught yourself to disbelieve then...or did you not believe as a child as well.

that is very interesting

Kai-am: now you want to take it to a different level altogether...im not willing to stoop to yours...i was merely asking what you ask of me dont quote to me from your bibles just want your own personal opinions about why you chose to be atheist. i get now that you come to a realisation that God doesnt exist so it is a choice. but then doest every atheist believe that their non-belief is a choice?

sorry if i offended you im just trying to understand. my boss is atheist but she's a really great person. she says she her parents werent religious so she figures thats why she doesnt believe but she believes in goodness and doing the right thing and she doesnt knock other peoples beliefs no matter how alien it is to her. Atheists on here give atheist like my boss a bad name.

Answer 1

There are people who say "everyone is born atheist," I don't agree with that. We are born oblivious to god and religion; born without even the knowledge it would take to be atheist.

I was born oblivious but raised Christian. I became an atheist at the age of 13, which is when I started to actually read and examine the Bible and the Christian faith without just blindly agreeing with it. I became an atheist through independent and rational thought.

EDIT: If anything I had to teach myself TO believe, I had to constantly try and reassure my faith and go against my better judgment and how I truly felt. I was always a bit skeptical about the Christian faith or any faith for that matter.

Answer 2

It was a natural evolution of the consciousness. When I was young, I was told there was a Santa and an Easter Bunny and God. My family let me in on the secret about the first two, but said that God was real. So I read the Bible and believed in Jesus and prayed and tried to live according to the faith. Then I realized that the only thing keeping my belief alive was my will to believe. Combining that with the fact that there is increasingly less consensus among believers as time goes on, I realized that we can't know anything about any God who might be out there and that it's not fair to tell people that something's true when we don't know it but only believe it. Especially something that causes so much division within a world already falling to pieces. Then it was as if scales fell from my eyes.

Answer 3

Technically everyone is born an atheist you know.

I realised when I was about 8 that a god existing was pretty unlikely. Since then I've never come across anything that would suggest that any kind of god does exist.

You don't believe in Zeus right? Or Thor? Or any of the other thousands of dieties that people have or currently believe in. We're all atheists really, I just go one god further than you.

and it's the internet. people on the internet give people a bad name

Answer 4

I believe from my personal experience I was born into Christianity, simply because my parents are religious. I went to church and bible school, but never really understood it. It wasn't until I started studying the theory of evolution that I started to doubt. I am a very scientific person, and I need fact over stories told for thousands of years. After talking with my parents about this and when I told them ( I am very lucky), my parents were understanding and told me to find my own path that makes me happy. It all depends on the person's experiences and personal preferences I think in what a person will eventually decide. It's a life long process to understand religion and spirituality.

Answer 5

Okay, see you were nice and polite in the last question, but now you just sound like a little sh*t. Especially telling people not to quote any book an Atheist wrote.
Also, your last question hasn't even left the front page yet, how about you wait for more answers before going 'I still don't get it!'?

EDIT: *blinks* I had no idea it was possible, but you've managed to turn a statement about Atheism into circular logic...

Answer 6

I was taught the Christian religion. Then I found out that some people don't believe in God. I remember thinking to myself, "MAN! I can't believe somebody wouldn't believe in God." This concept of not believing in God grew on me, so I began to do research on my own (not what my preacher told me) and I found that it is VERY easy to believe that there is no such thing as God. I examined the evidence for and against the existence of a God and found that the Christian arguments use circular logic to fool people into believing in God, while the arguments against the existence of God used valid logic and reason, from that instant I knew there was no such thing as a God.

I'm sorry that no one is answering your question correctly, maybe if you could just tell us what you want to hear. Then we can just repeat that for your satisfaction.

Answer 7

Anti atheism is doing such a lot harm to Christianity that it's sincerely anti Christianity – David Manley It takes sincerely just one to make a quarrel. It is vain for the sheep to go resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, even as the wolf stays of yet another opinion. - William Ralph Inge. Why so ignorant of what explanations the backlash towards Christianity? ALL the opposite religions and atheists reside in peace and are ONLY attacked by way of BAD Christians which explanations all GOOD Christians to depression on the harm they do! The self destruction of Christianity is underway and the one factor that may quit it's to desert the horrible human feelings, search to rediscover the concept of a loving god and act find it irresistible! Posts like yours that force men and women extra clear of God are using you closer to hell. So who're you operating for the satan or the antichrist considering it certain ain't the loving god!

Answer 8

1. It's 'atheist'

2. Which atheist are you addressing, particularly?

3. atheism isn't a religion or a belief. It is just a word given to someone who doesn't believe in deities.

4. We are all born that way. So were you.

5. EDIT: You really don't understand do you? Do you have to disprove leprechauns for you not to believe in them?

Answer 9

You Christians have what is called the age of accountability when a youth is said to be aware of right and wrong and fear of everlasting burning hell fire with a chance at heaven for the exchange of belief and good deeds.
We first generation atheist have wasted an awfully lot of precious time overcoming all that propaganda. I wish you well...:)

Answer 10

It was a realization. If I make it, I did it. If I fail, I did it. Not some god. As a fundie god was credited with everything good that happened in my life. Something bad happened it was my fault. Lose, lose situation all the way around. Christians are not allowed to take credit for anything good that happens for them. They only get credit for the bad things that happen to them. This in itself should be a wake up call for people.