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Poll: How did you lose your religion
This poll is closed.
By reading the Bible
9.09%
3 9.09%
By reading some other holy book
0%
0 0%
Found the relgion did not match to your core beliefs
3.03%
1 3.03%
Found religion to be to Homophobe, anti-woman e.t.c
3.03%
1 3.03%
Found the arguments of religion weak?
9.09%
3 9.09%
That Science had a better explanation to life, the universe and everything (almost)
18.18%
6 18.18%
Were convinced by another atheist (including Hitchens)
3.03%
1 3.03%
Other (please state)
54.55%
18 54.55%
Total 33 vote(s) 100%
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How did you lose your faith.
#1
How did you lose your faith.
This is a question for the deconverted. How did you lose your religion?
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
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#2
RE: How did you lose your faith.
Are you aware we have a whole forum on this topic?
My ignore list




"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
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#3
RE: How did you lose your faith.
(January 24, 2013 at 2:38 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Are you aware we have a whole forum on this topic?
Obviously not
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
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#4
RE: How did you lose your faith.
(January 24, 2013 at 2:32 am)Gooders1002 Wrote: This is a question for the deconverted. How did you lose your religion?

There I was, about to eat a banana sandwich... when the phone rang. I rush upstairs, answer the phone, and walk calmly back to my sandwich while telling someone they had the wrong number.

I walk in the door to my room... and the bananas had disappeared off the sandwich. And my blue hair dye was missing too Angry

That was the very moment I stopped being a Christian.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#5
RE: How did you lose your faith.
And let that be a lesson to you!

I hit an age where I stopped accepting idiotic fairy tales. I was 11.
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#6
RE: How did you lose your faith.
How many threads have there been where this was asked?

well........


Had a anglican dad and catholic mum, they argued over which faith might be the best to raise me with.
Then they decided not to raise me with any faith when I was about 8 or 9 years old.
I was supposed to chose my faith by myself that way.

But in the end I didn`t chose anything at all.
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#7
RE: How did you lose your faith.
I was 8 years old when I realized the trusting adults in my life were lying to me regarding religion.
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#8
RE: How did you lose your faith.
Fortunately, my parents are atheists so I never believed in anything.

My father has a polish catholic socialist (almost communist) dad, who forced him to go to church, and an anti-religion mom, almost intolerant towards religion (she raised me in part)
My mother has a communist father, anti-religion.

My parents didn't give me a religious education. They wanted my brother to be baptised (catholic) to please my grand-father, but the priest refuse, because my parents were not married at church and they admitted to be unbelievers.

So, no religion lessons for me at school. In Belgium, in public schools, you have to choose a philosophical lesson : catholic, protestant, Islam, Judaism, orthodox or moral (for the unbelievers and those who don't have the expected lesson, like Jehovah witnesses).

In the moral lesson, the teacher doesn't tell us that there is no god, but tell us that some people believe, some don't, and we spend a few time to learn about the monotheists religion. The teacher teach us to respect everybody, to share, to respect olders, to give them seat on the bus, to respect animals and environment, etc.

At high school, we debate about freedom of speach, abortion, death penalty, etc.

Sometime, all classes get together so exchange points of view, etc.

I think that's interesting

Thank you for reading my life
Only dead fish go with the flow * Obey your master
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#9
RE: How did you lose your faith.
When I was about 10.... the notion of a omnipresent entity ceased to make sense... hey, I wanted to masterbate alone!
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#10
RE: How did you lose your faith.
After making excuses over and over again why my opinion of god didn't match the bible and what the priests preached in church, I realized that I was in the wrong. That added with an inquisitive mind and an aptitude for science, the puzzle pieces just fell into place.
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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