Just a question, I find these stories amongst like-minded individuals are usually pretty interesting for me.

I would say, for me, I always had doubt (even when I was 7-8 years old and was being forced to go to Church with my Grandparents). I remember watching the people and thinking they were completely out of their minds. Then, because of a lot of aggression/violence coupled with my open doubts of God and the story of Jesus, at the age of 14 my Mom decided I must have been possessed by a demon to cause these thoughts and actions. She decided to have me exorcized, after much arguing and fighting about it, I decided this was actually a good idea, maybe it would prove to my Mom that I wasn't possessed or anything of the sort, perhaps she would understand this is just who I am. Well, we went to have the demons cast out of my body, and amongst all of the shouting, crosses being put to my head and water thrown on me, I remember laughing to myself and watching them, almost feeling pity for them because of the level of fear they seemed to have. Of course, I told them it made no difference and I still felt the same, they insisted not only was I possessed, but I was possessed by no other than Satan himself, because I had not been changed. It was then I pretty much came to the understanding of my own belief and decided to start being active in research and finding like-minded individuals.

When I was born.

about two months ago for a month. before that I was a deist, then after that I was a deist again, before dropping that and becoming insane.

I started to draw breath.....the rest is history.

I never believed. Starting from 8-9, when I began reading extensively on my own, my attitude shifted from "I don't believe because the non-compatible alternatives to belief sounds like a better idea" to "this belief things is really a monsterous and utterly ireedemable abomination that is fundamentally and irreconcilably hostile, whever its immediate oily pretenses, to most fundamental basis of everything I find respectable".

I started to question around the age of 9 or 10. Not knowing the dubious evidence for Christ's existence, I believed him to have been a real person, but that Christianity was born out of a complete warping and misunderstandinf of his teachings. It never made sense to me that Jesus would go around telling everyone to love each other and such, and then also tell people that they were going to burn in hell if they didn't call him god.

Right after I actually read the bible objectively........I figured I better be right if eternity depended on it....

I'm a baby atheist. :3 Coming up on a year since my deconversion.

Before that, I was deistic for about 4-5 years. Before that, I was a Lutheran Jesus-Freak.

Aren't babies technically agnostic?

(June 15, 2012 at 3:25 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote: Aren't babies technically agnostic?

Babies are atheists. The believe in absolutely nothing. Religion is something that is taught to them.