2007-12-28 10:51:36 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I went through phases where I came to terms with what I believed. I never, as an adult or even as a teenager, believed there was a god. But I called myself agnostic for a while, mostly to be non-confrontational.
It wasn't really a swift move though. Belief just faded away like all my childhood illusions.
2007-12-28 11:06:54 · answer #1 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was a pretty swift move, maybe a matter a months...but there was a brief period where I was sort of agnostic and wondering if there really was a god, and then I changed over to atheism and as time progressed my atheism became stronger and stronger. It's like you just start to realize how crazy religion is and its hits you right in the face, and you wonder how you could have ever believed that stuff and why people believe that religious mumbo jumbo.
2007-12-28 19:03:24 · answer #2 · answered by Moxie! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read into different religions (and the background of them, like shamanism and astrotheology), found some I liked and made some sence (buddhism, electic-paganism), but I just thought so much about this issue, and decided their was no possible way for me to kno if there is or isn't, and I don't belive if there was, that a god/goddess would write a book for only a small group of people to be the truth (I don't belive in organized religion), so I'm agnostic. atheistism makes more sence than most theisms, but I cannot say, so I'm neither.
2007-12-28 18:57:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was pretty much always an atheist (I never believed in gods) and as I grew up I became agnostic too (which essentially means holding to the principle that beliefs have to be justified by logically satisfactory argument and/or evidence).
2007-12-28 18:55:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, when I figured out the evidence for Christianity was tenuous at best I still thought that there was "something" going on. So even though I didn't know the word, I was certainly agnostic for a big chunk of my life.
2007-12-28 18:57:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is a natural progression.
At 12 yrs old, I began to have serious doubts = agnostic.
I was searching for answers but didn't really have them = agnostic
I was scared to take the step into 'full' atheism due to the indoctrination as a child and the fear implanted = unsure
It took three years before I finally stepped across the line, seeking more knowledge during that time. Atheist.
2007-12-28 18:56:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was agnostic for a really long time. Even though logic didn't agree with religion at all, it was really difficult for me to get past the "what if"s and the whole eternal damnation thing. My family is very religious, so it was hard for me to let go of something everyone else around me seemed to believe in so strongly.
Eventually though, I realized they had been lied to, just as I had been lied to. And I was lying to myself by pretending I still might believe in something that I really didn't believe in at all.
2007-12-28 18:56:21 · answer #7 · answered by SuperN 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I went agnostic first. Took awhile for the atheism to take hold.
2007-12-28 18:56:10 · answer #8 · answered by Pull My Finger 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was born and raised a non believer, so I was never agnostic nor religious.
2007-12-28 18:55:52 · answer #9 · answered by Indigo 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was agnostic for a bit. There was a certain period of confusion.
2007-12-28 19:00:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋