What one event took you from believing in a God, to realizing there is none?

Question

any religions god.

Answer 1

I can't say it was one event for me. It was a process. I'm not sure how familiar you are with Islam, but for me it was discarding the concept of Ahadith first. Then I turned to Qur'an as the only source of knowledge and ... well, let's just say that I was quite shocked. So I rejected Islam as a religion but still held beliefs in *something.*

And then it struck me. There is no God. Humans invented God(s) to sooth their mortal feras. Ever since I've come to terms with my mortality, I've been one happy human being.

~lived sarcastically ever after~

Answer 2

Unlike the comic books and television, there rarely is any single event that makes someone stop believing in gods. Usually it is a drawn-out process that starts by asking questions and looking for answers beyond the stock ones that most faiths try to pass as wisdom.

For me, despite being raised in a religious home I was never once "touched" by anything, or "inspired" by anything I was told. I never had "visions", "revelations", or any other sort of emotional high. Nor did many of the answers that I got make any sense to me. I just kept asking "why".

Answer 3

It's not difficult. Even if you took all the evidence against such a being out of the equation, and ignored the fact that there is not a shred of evidence to suggest that there might be such a being, then just simple logic will do the trick. The whole concept makes no sense and the universe seems to get on just fine without a god.

Answer 4

Not one event but a process.
Over years, but as others here have already said, studying the bible was part of it. And that with the intention of understanding its true message, not with the intent of finding flaws.

Lynn C says I cannot ever have been a full and proper Christian.
Well, I differ: I believed, I prayed... If I wasn't then *anyone* who thinks they are a Christian might be wrong, too.

Answer 5

When I turned 13 (I'm 15 now), I realized that I didn't believe in God fully, so I could not come to call myself a Christian.

Answer 6

There was no real one event that turned me. It was a long process. But I remember the last time I went to church. I was talking to the pastors wife and she made a comment about a child that was doing bad in school and it was because she had an ET doll. The pastors wife said that ET was a demon in disguise to turn children evil. They removed the doll and destroyed it. I later found out that it didn't make any difference with the child. Go figure.

Answer 7

There wasn't just one event, it has been a lifetime of learning and growing as a person that has led me to believe that no deity is a real entity.

Answer 8

nicely, in case you have clone of God being some variety of Divine insurance Agent such as you look to do, then i assume thats a concern. I propose, your attacking strawmen, yet in spite of. yet any Christian acquainted with classic Christian theology is acquainted with that prayer isn't some variety of cosmic genies desire checklist. Prayer is a manner wherein we hold close to to God, and in that technique, he could make himself "generic" in the path of the spectacular ultimately nevertheless, because God created us with unfastened will, and as St Thomas Aquinas placed it, created this universe as a contingency device, this suggests that we do could desire to think of and act for ourselves. it is illustrated in a metaphorical vogue in the backyard of Eden whilst Adam is naming the animals. The Church Fathers shows that Adam is illustrating the fairly some disciplines of guy as a scientist, actuality seeker, etc who's work out his rational mind to unravel issues and are available up with thoughts, without God micromanaging each and every element. So any Christian acquainted with classic theology could understand this. Your purely attacking strawmen

Answer 9

They told me in Sunday school that Genesis said that all the plants were created before the Sun and stars. I knew that was BS and I got to thinking. It didn't take long to figure it out.

Answer 10

i grew up catholic.

while i was preparing for my confirmation (just after i turned thirteen) i realised i had some problems with a particular catholic mystery (the immaculate conception).

i told my parish priest that i was having difficulties with a particular aspect of my spiritual life, and he offered to spend some time with me.

when we met, before i had time to say what was troubling me, he asked me if i was having trouble with impure thoughts.

every thirteen year old boy has some trouble with impure thoughts, i didn't think i was having more trouble than most of the other guys i knew. but the more i tried to tell my priest what my real issues were, the more he wanted to talk about how i felt about girls.

it suddenly occurred to me that he was getting off on my sex life, because he didn't have one of his own.

i took my problems with the immaculate conception away, and dealt with them on my own. as it fell out, i dealt with them by leaving the church.

it was a lot easier because i had begun to realise what pastoral care is really about.

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and i am really grateful to all the believers here who so steadily remind me just what faith does to a person.