any ex christian here that became Atheist - why?

Answer 1

It started, really, when I was training bible study leaders and teaching Small-group evangelism.
I only wanted to teach what was true, and I was very aware of the differences within Christianity over time, between denominations...
But with extensive bible study, and research into the history of the bible, and of the Christian church, it became harder and harder to reconcile what I found, with what I had been told, and what I had believed.
Prayer, with fasting and tears (and I'm not exaggerating) did not help.
Eventually, I had to go with my conscience. I couldn't teach what I didn't believe to be true.

There are other theist positions apart from Christianity, of course, and I considered a variety of those, to cover the possibility that it was only on the *character* of God that Christianity was mistaken. But many of the reasons for abandoning Christianity hold true across the board.

There were other strands too, linking into this. Overall, I found a greater consistency in the alternate hypothesis: religion as a cultural phenomenon.

At the last church I attended (bible-believing, evangelical),
of the people I could enquire (it was a touchy subject), I discovered that about a third did not believe, but spoke and acted as though they did, in order to preserve the thing they really valued: the belonging, the community, the social hub.

It wasn't a choice I could make, but I understand it.

Answer 2

In all fairness, it would probably be a stretch to say that I ever really was a christian.... Even as a young tyke, the whole bible thing never seemed like it made much sense to me. It did, however, take a long time for me to overcome the social stigmas around admitting my beliefs about atheisms.

I always had a pretty voracious mind and a strong love of nature. Put together, it lead me into science at a pretty young age. Fortunately, I had parents that were wise enough to let me do so.

Answer 3

i spent a few years as an atheist after giving up on christianity. i couldn't reconcile christian theology with what i perceived in the world. i couldn't accept original sin, or dominion over nature. i wondered what was so great about this religion that made it better than the ancient greek or egyptian. what finally made me reject it was the realization that even good people would be condemned for failing to accept jesus. i couldn't understand why such a powerful being wanted with total devotion, and finally saw that god for the megalomaniac he is.

eventually the call of the forests overcame my atheism and i came home to paganism.

(((poppy)))

Answer 4

with the aid of super learn I even have complete lots awareness and found no evidence or choose for any supra-organic entity this is living exterior the traditional area-time continuum, for this reason i'm an atheist and not of the agnostic-atheist form. As for question #2, I even have super awareness and information from some years of learn in extremely some fields, cosmology, quantum physics, math, and engineering. i'm a gnostic, one with awareness, not agnostic one without awareness. #3 faith is the prevalent worship of the divine, in case you do not have faith in a god, you do not choose faith, so its extremely any incorrect way around a rejection on theism effects interior the rejection of religion, yet possible reject faith and nevertheless have faith interior the divine as many christians and others do as evidenced via non-denominational christians, widespread unitarians, some wiccans, and various others who label themselves as religious-nonreligious.

Answer 5

Because I read the bible and realized that there were too many inconsistencies in there to actually be taken seriously as a historical manuscript handed down from god. I needed more proof than a book to base my entire belief on.

Answer 6

Because I realized that there is no god.

As I was growing up, I gave the adults the benefit of the doubt. But when I grew up, I realized they were simply pretending. I'm not willing to be that dishonest.

Answer 7

because when i started to think with my own mind which says that god is not there

Answer 8

I feel discriminated against *pouts*

An ex-Muslim here

:P

((((bad tim))))