and what is your current religion?
2007-12-12 01:09:26 · 19 answers · asked by ʌ_ʍ ʍr.smile 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"We would all clasp hands together and recite in unison. "I believe there is no God, I believe there is no God.""
WHAT?!
2007-12-13 00:48:22 · update #1
A good friend of mine was a very strict atheist for her entire life. Well educated, good home life, taught by her parents early on that the atheist belief system was the appropriate one, etc. Then she had her first son, and slowly began to awaken spiritually. One day, she said she actually felt a new presence in her heart, mind and soul, and realized it was God. After almost six months of deep thought, research, and communion with God, she's following the Christian path and has accepted that it's something wonderful that's happened to her spiritually. I'm happy for her, and her family.
2007-12-12 01:37:22 · answer #1 · answered by ♛Qu€€n♛J€§§¡¢a♛™ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You know I was raised in a proper atheist household. Every Sunday we would go to the most godless place we could find - the local university. We would all clasp hands together and recite in unison. "I believe there is no God, I believe there is no God." Too be honest, sometimes I had my doubts. Secretly, I did believe in God. I didn't tell anyone about my doubts until one day I mentioned it to the leader of the Freethinking Society. He said that everyone has doubts about atheism and it just strengthens our faith in the non-existance of God.
That made sense at the time, but I still had doubts. Then I went to college. As it happened I got a scholarship to Bob Jones University. Wow, I'd never see so many new ideas in my life I had never talked to so many brilliant thinkers. You see I had lived a very close-minded existence - I'd never had so many people who believed in God before. Wow, I realized how sheltered I was. All these Believers; the more I thought about it - the more it made sense. They swayed me with arguments like, "If there is no God, then how did we get here?" That was a good one. Also, they said, "The fact that you don't believe the Bible proves that it is true. The Bible says that there will be people who doubt the Word. And you are doubting the Word of God. Don't you see? It's a prophecy!" Once my new friends pointed it out to me, I realized that the only reason I didn't believe in God because I didnt want to recognize that I was a sinner. I couldn't bear the thought that someone loved me enough that he would die on the cross for my sins.
Amazed by the logical consistency of my new found friends, I strayed from my old dogmatic faith in atheism into a trust in Christ as my personal Lord and Savior.
I have never looked back since.
I realized what the problem is. Smart people don't believe in God because the rely on their own thought processes to make decisions for themselves. I'm much happier now that I've found the Truth that exists outside of myself.
If only everyone could be exactly like me.
2007-12-12 13:32:37 · answer #2 · answered by seatbeltsforsafety 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If Lucid Interrogator is a Nihilist, then he's also still an atheist because atheists don't believe in God and Nihilists don't believe in anything, therefore they don't believe in God, therefore Nihilists are atheists.
Neither are religions. They're just opinions or outlooks or non-beliefs.
2007-12-12 01:24:12 · answer #3 · answered by egn18s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was labelled an Atheist the very moment someone told me about God and Religion . Before that I was Just Me !
2007-12-12 01:23:12 · answer #4 · answered by londonpeter2003 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See? i like the type you think of. Atheists insist that Atheism isn't a faith, yet by utilising some definitions of the be conscious "faith," it could in certainty extra healthful. And in the event that they have been open to it, they'd completely make the main of it!
2016-10-11 03:15:43 · answer #5 · answered by michaelson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I completely deconverted from standard, common or garden Atheism when I was about 17... which is about where I started declining all conventional truth as unknowable and took on the aspects of Nihilism...
2007-12-12 01:15:11 · answer #6 · answered by Lucid Interrogator 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It took me 25 years to get out of christianity.
Been an atheist for the last 25.
Looking forward to the next 25 years of atheism!
2007-12-12 01:13:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 2⤋
I was merely an atheist and then I saw the evil that religion caused in the world and so became an antitheist.
But these aren't religions.
2007-12-12 01:13:41 · answer #8 · answered by heidavey 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
It took a little over a year to become Catholic from a lifetime of atheism.
2017-01-30 10:56:02 · answer #9 · answered by lazurm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those people were never atheists, they were simple undecided. Once you step into logic, it would be hard to go back. It is like when you stop believing in Santa, you can never go back to believing.
2007-12-12 01:21:02 · answer #10 · answered by Wolverine 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋