Please be honest.
I am just curious.
2007-12-03 10:12:56 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm 22 now, and back when I was 8, going to a Catholic school, attending church, and having religion around me for most of the day, I started to question it. No one influenced me to think this way, I just started to think critically about it.
By the time I was 12 I announced to my mother that I didn't believe in god. She said it was fine, and after all of the years not knowing, she confessed that she herself is an atheist. She never once stopped me or my siblings from attending church, praying, or believing in any religion.
After that I started researching, I didn't fully understand the status around being an atheist back then, but I know I was horrifyingly looked down upon by my religious peers. Especially my grandparents and teachers.
I honestly do not see how or why people need any supernatural being(s) to feel secure. It's like a security blanket. As well, I have a set of humanitarian rules, nothing holy. Don't kill people, be nice, don't steal, etc,...
Most atheists don't turn to a "faithless" life because it is cool. It is carefully thought out, as we are often degraded and mentally abused for our non-belief.
2007-12-03 10:30:17 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was raised catholic, I even attend twelve years of catholic school. I felt that I always had been an Atheist particularly after the fifth grade. I could not stand going to mass with the school in the first Friday of each month and having to stand, sit and kneel. I even got in trouble because I was not kneeling properly during mass.
I became an Atheist because I have not seen any convincing evidence that god exists. Each question about god and his actions were replied with cop-out answers, never given a definitive answer or plausible answer.
In case you are curious the following answers were given to me:
you have to believe in god, god only knows, it is not for us to question gods actions, free will, gods will, god has a plan, god will make his plan known to us when he is ready.
To me those were nothing more than cop-out answers.
People make absolute claims about god but do not provide absolute proof about him.
god is all-powerful, god is all-loving and god is all-knowing. These three concepts are flawed.
Each of them make the assumption that god is absolute but when I or other Atheists question one or all three of them we are given cop-out answers to them.
That is why I am an Atheist.
2007-12-03 10:26:21 · answer #2 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess I was a non-denominational Christian. I never really saw a reason to get into religion, since I was very science minded. I looked to science as my source of knowledge. And I felt that religion and God were used to explain things that couldn't be explained, rather then pass judgment until science could explain them. Also, I realized I was just a believer because everyone else was.
2007-12-03 10:18:38 · answer #3 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. it may only make people who have faith better. that's been shown in the situations of the prohibition of alcohol, and gun crime statistics that it does no longer provide up them from getting used, and that i could think of that the dating holds. What i could do, in spite of the undeniable fact that, is teach severe thinking at a youthful age (fourth or 5th grade in keeping with probability), the main elementary cognitive biases, specifically logical fallacies, (which i'm confident they could somewhat understand) to boot to the skill to question your purpose for believing specifically issues, and how lots info is suited for forming an opinion.
2016-10-10 04:24:40 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My parents never raised me as anything, they have their beliefs, I have mine. I've never been to church in my life, and I plan on keeping it that way.
I wouldn't call myself an atheist, but I don't believe in heaven or hell. And I'm not so sure about God either. I mean come on, a magical land in the sky? I'm this way because of logic, Religion is senseless.
2007-12-03 10:19:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Born/baptized Byzantine Catholic... slowly became atheist while studying my own and various other religions from various analytical angles, and settled as a Buddhist, where the logic makes more sense to me, and yep, we're essentially atheist.
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2007-12-03 10:18:50 · answer #6 · answered by vinslave 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
>why are you atheist?
Because I am a freethinker, I try to be as logical as possible, and from what I know of the evidence, I don't think it supports the idea that God exists.
You can read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freethought
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_of_God#Arguments_against_belief_in_God
>What were you (religion wise) before you were atheist/if anything
I've always been an atheist.
2007-12-03 10:19:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I used to be a Born-Again, Spirit-filled, Spirit-convinced, Spirit-convicted Christian.
Now I'm an atheist.
I did not wish to be an atheist. I fought four long hard and terrifying years to avoid it. But in the end, when faith gives way to reason, there is simply no going back.
2007-12-03 10:17:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Pretty simple, I do no believe. I could go into why I think religion is complete junk, but when you go down to the bare bones I just do not believe.
(Baptized as Lutheran (didn't have a choise), left as soon as the law permitted.)
2007-12-03 10:29:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am atheist, because that's what makes the most sense to me. Before I was an atheist, I was forced christian.
2007-12-03 10:18:13 · answer #10 · answered by sweetgurl13069 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋