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What eventually lead you to your non-belief in God?

doodlyy

New Member
Just interested in things that may have lead people to stop believing in God (if they ever believed in a God in the first place). Wondered if there was a common denominator for people :)
 

9Westy9

Sceptic, Libertarian, Egalitarian
Premium Member
Yahweh's immorality for one. No good evidence for believing in any particular god. apparent contradictions in holy texts etc.
 

9Westy9

Sceptic, Libertarian, Egalitarian
Premium Member
Ah, sorry - that was quite vague of me. But any God..

Not many atheists are convinced there is no god. Most just reject the defined gods i.e. Allah, Yahweh etc. Based on the rejection of these gods they then decide that they need not believe in a god(s). Maybe someone else can explain it better than me :p
 

Engyo

Prince of Dorkness!
I just never saw any objective evidence for nor any need of an omnipotent, omnipresent creator deity.
 

D-MITCH777

Member
I found error's in all the religions I looked into and eventually I saw that there was no evidence for a God, so I decided that Atheism was true.
 

Penumbra

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Just interested in things that may have lead people to stop believing in God (if they ever believed in a God in the first place). Wondered if there was a common denominator for people :)
I was raised with a vague liberal theism.

At one point, I decided to look more into it, in order to see what I actually believed and why, rather than to just sort of believe what I was raised with. I felt at the time I should be closer to god. I was in my early teens at the time.

I read the Bible all the way through, which resulted in me significantly distancing myself from the Christian religion more than I already was, and led me to be less of a theist. Spent time with prayer, that led me away from theism as well. I read the Qu'ran, Bhagavad Gita, and Tao Te Ching. Later I read 10 Upanishads, and took college classes on religion.

Once I determined that I had no reasons to believe any of it, I stopped believing any of it.
 

Tonymai

Lonesome Religionist
God: The Original Cause in Science, The Unity in philosophy, The Personality to be worshiped in religion.
 

Tellurian

Active Member
I was raised with a vague liberal theism.

At one point, I decided to look more into it, in order to see what I actually believed and why, rather than to just sort of believe what I was raised with. I felt at the time I should be closer to god. I was in my early teens at the time.

I read the Bible all the way through, which resulted in me significantly distancing myself from the Christian religion more than I already was, and led me to be less of a theist. Spent time with prayer, that led me away from theism as well. I read the Qu'ran, Bhagavad Gita, and Tao Te Ching. Later I read 10 Upanishads, and took college classes on religion.

Once I determined that I had no reasons to believe any of it, I stopped believing any of it.

My path was very similar to yours. I read the books of many other different religions and practiced many types of prayers but received no results. I also studied the histories of different religions, and it was mostly the information from archaeology and historical documents that convinced me that all gods have been invented and created by persons, either out of ignorance or for purposes of manipulation to gain power and wealth.
 

Skwim

Veteran Member
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pururun

cmiiw
at first i was a believer who followed my parents belief. then questioned god's existence... and i found that god's existence is unverifiable...
 

lunakilo

Well-Known Member
Just interested in things that may have lead people to stop believing in God (if they ever believed in a God in the first place). Wondered if there was a common denominator for people :)
My parents forgot to teach me that there was a god.

They also forgot to teach me what the word god means so I really don't have a clear understanding of the concept.
It is difficult to believe in something you don't know what is.

Noone ever gave me a satisfying description of what god is and why I should believe in it, so I don't :)
 

Panda

42?
Premium Member
My parents forgot to teach me that there was a god.

They also forgot to teach me what the word god means so I really don't have a clear understanding of the concept.
It is difficult to believe in something you don't know what is.

Noone ever gave me a satisfying description of what god is and why I should believe in it, so I don't :)

My upbringing was similar to that. Religion never existed in my family. Like you I have never seen any good reasons or evidence for any gods or religions.
 
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