Atheists,

[Renji]

What are your religions before you stick with the belief of Atheism and what is the reason why you leave your religion?

 

[Riverwolf]

You do know that not all atheists were religious at one point, right?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

What are your religions before you stick with the belief of Atheism

None. I had a church-at-Christmas-and-Easter nominally Protestant Christian upbringing, but I don't recall a time when I ever actually considered myself a Christian.

and what is the reason why you leave your religion?

Not applicable. I never had a religion to leave.

 

[whereismynotecard]

I didn't have an actual religion. All of the adults told me that god existed, so I believed them. I believed everything when I was a child, and then I stopped. The reason I stopped believing in god was because I just thought about it and it didn't seem very likely to me.

 

[Renji]

You do know that not all atheists were religious at one point, right?

Yes, I'm just asking this for those who want to answer and for those people where my question is applicable:angel2:

 

[Riverwolf]

Yes, I'm just asking this for those who want to answer and for those people where my question is applicable:angel2:

I get you. For future reference, you might want to specify that next time so you don't get confusion.

 

[YmirGF]

What are your religions before you stick with the belief of Atheism and what is the reason why you leave your religion?

Lawrence, I am a third generation atheist with minor Anglican leanings. My own series of inner adventures culminated in an eight hour "meeting" with Vishnu and frankly, I learned much from that encounter. Try to imagine, if you will, when you look into the eyes of god... what do you see? The answer is more obvious than many may suspect. If you can answer the question, I'll entertain continuing in this thread.

 

[Sunstone]

What are your religions before you stick with the belief of Atheism

I don't recall having any religion -- essentially, I've always been a-religious.

 

[gnomon]

don't say it is a propaganda , the above person is my friend now , he can personally prove to you here .


thanx

Propaganda.......no.
Proselytization....yes.
Utter garbage.....yes.

 

[Halcyon]

I had an atheist/agnostic upbringing, I explored and sort of self-converted to paganism for 6 years, then Gnosticism for 4.
After which I realised that I was forcing myself to believe, and that it didn't really feel right (cognitive dissonance), so I reverted to my natural atheism/agnosticism.

 

[Darkness]

Try to imagine, if you will, when you look into the eyes of god... what do you see? The answer is more obvious than many may suspect. If you can answer the question, I'll entertain continuing in this thread.

You see yourself.

What are your religions before you stick with the belief of Atheism and what is the reason why you leave your religion?

I left Christian Fundamentalism because I could no longer believe in a God who is supposed to be Loving and yet wants to burn the "wicked" in Hell for all eternity. Ergo, I became a Christian Universalist. After about a year into Universalism, I began doubt the Bible's stance on issues like Homosexuality and was repulsed by the cruelty of the Old Testament. I became a Deist with Taoist tendencies. But then I started to doubt the very idea of a necessary First Cause and asked the question, "If all things need a cause, as so many claim, than what caused God." After much reluctance, I assent with an Atheistic world view. However, I do not usually associate myself with most Atheists, as many are anti-religious, which I am not.

 

[fantome profane]

Try to imagine, if you will, when you look into the eyes of god... what do you see? The answer is more obvious than many may suspect. If you can answer the question, I'll entertain continuing in this thread.

Cataracts?

 

[Women_Of_Reason]

Why would God have eyes anyways?

 

[Father Heathen]

I was a protestant Christian up until my mid/late teens. I left because I felt it was an impractical, irrational and fruitless faith that served to only reinforce ignorance, denial, bigotry and hypocrisy in society.

 

[LuisDantas]

What are your religions before you stick with the belief of Atheism and what is the reason why you leave your religion?

I was pushed into non-practicioning Catholicism and later, when I was already an all-out atheist, pressured into Kardecist Spiritism (which I never accepted even slightly).

Still, I never thought of myself as a Christian, much less a Spiritist. Becoming an open atheist actually drove me into religion instead of out of it.

 

[Storm]

I was pushed into non-practicioning Catholicism and later, when I was already an all-out atheist, pressured into Kardecist Spiritism (which I never accepted even slightly).

Still, I never thought of myself as a Christian, much less a Spiritist. Becoming an open atheist actually drove me into religion instead of out of it.

I'm confused. If you didn't practice Catholicism, and didn't accept Spiritism (did you practice that one?) how were you pressured into anything?

 

[LuisDantas]

I'm confused. If you didn't practice Catholicism, and didn't accept Spiritism (did you practice that one?) how were you pressured into anything?

I was fifteen or less at the time, changing homes nearly every year, pretty much at the mercy of my biological parents.

Let's just say that the two of them weren't much into respecting children's wishes. "Mommy" threw quite a few hysterical tantrums.

And no, I did not practice Spiritism. I never would. But not from lack of pressure.

 

[Storm]

Oh, ok. Thank you for clarifying.

 

[LuisDantas]

My pleasure.

 

[Renji]

Lawrence, I am a third generation atheist with minor Anglican leanings. My own series of inner adventures culminated in an eight hour "meeting" with Vishnu and frankly, I learned much from that encounter. Try to imagine, if you will, when you look into the eyes of god... what do you see? The answer is more obvious than many may suspect. If you can answer the question, I'll entertain continuing in this thread.

What sort of answer do you expect from me?