I began to think
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Current time: February 11, 2025, 2:40 pm
| Poll: How did you lose your religion This poll is closed. |
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| By reading the Bible | 3 | 9.09% | |
| By reading some other holy book | 0 | 0% | |
| Found the relgion did not match to your core beliefs | 1 | 3.03% | |
| Found religion to be to Homophobe, anti-woman e.t.c | 1 | 3.03% | |
| Found the arguments of religion weak? | 3 | 9.09% | |
| That Science had a better explanation to life, the universe and everything (almost) | 6 | 18.18% | |
| Were convinced by another atheist (including Hitchens) | 1 | 3.03% | |
| Other (please state) | 18 | 54.55% | |
| Total | 33 vote(s) | 100% | |
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How did you lose your faith.
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Until I was 13, I had absolutely no clue about other world religions than mine (I was a Christian). Upon learning about them was when I began to even question my beliefs. From then on until a few years later, the only reason I remained a Christian was because I was afraid of the consequences otherwise. I became an atheist when I finally got up the nerve to ask myself, "What proof do I have that these consequences are real?". Of course, I had no proof at all.
Don’t ask.
 
And neither does anyone else, dear.
My mom made my dad agree to raise me Jewish, but I was a skeptic since I was a little kid. That kind of grew by itself, along with listening to the ridiculous claims from very religious people (i.e. creationists), until I realized that I could and *did* identify as an atheist.
"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."
Richard Geni 
when you got nothing you got nothing to lose ..
 (January 27, 2013 at 4:34 pm)garbishcan Wrote: when you got nothing you got nothing to lose .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXV_QjenbDw It's true... 
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
I was raised Catholic until my parents' divorce when I was 6. We promptly became Methodists. I could never reconcile the two ideologies and just gave up trying to make sense of it.
Read properly, the bible is the most convincing force for atheism ever devised.
I almost died, a few times. Never saw god, Never heard from him, realized I was dying alone. Then I decided to read the Bible again to see why he wouldn't show up for his highly devoted daughter, much less put humans through such bullshit, and it all went downhill from there (or upwards on the bullshit factor) when I re-examined all the reasons why I believed what I did in the first place.
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!
Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite. Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment. Quote:Some people deserve hell. I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong. ![[Image: tumblr_n1j4lmACk61qchtw3o1_500.gif]](https://66.media.tumblr.com/5fb74c6d16622fb3dbb358509c9aec03/tumblr_n1j4lmACk61qchtw3o1_500.gif)
I guess it happened over a long duration, and I can’t really point at any one thing that makes me say that was it. However, I guess that the historical evidence of religious prosecution of those who raised questions against the church.
Imho, it is important to question. It’s how we learn and evolve. |
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