I realized there were other options. A kid in my 11th grade english class was telling someone else how he was agnostic and what that meant, and I thought "huh, I've never really thought about religion, but I guess you can't prove god exists, so I should be agnostic. Though you can't prove he doesn't, either...".
I don't know if I felt there was some stigma to being an atheist that I didn't want or if I honsetly thought god might exist, but a few months later (the next time I contemplated this) I admitted to myself that the odds of god existing were so small that the theoretical possibility of his existence (due to the fact that god is unfalsifiable) was not worthy of acknowledging.
It might have happened sooner, but I never really thought much about religion, and my family is only moderately religious (maybe even a little less than that).
I don't know if I felt there was some stigma to being an atheist that I didn't want or if I honsetly thought god might exist, but a few months later (the next time I contemplated this) I admitted to myself that the odds of god existing were so small that the theoretical possibility of his existence (due to the fact that god is unfalsifiable) was not worthy of acknowledging.
It might have happened sooner, but I never really thought much about religion, and my family is only moderately religious (maybe even a little less than that).
