0 it might of just taken some time to realize I was.
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How old were you when you became athiest?
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February 4, 2013 at 3:38 pm
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2013 at 3:38 pm by naimless.)
(January 31, 2013 at 9:40 pm)iameatingjam Wrote: I was raised Christian, but I remember asking a lot of questions and having some doubts when I was about 8... Why did all the biblical stories stop? Why doesn't god do magical things that prove he exists today? I was definitely agnostic by 11, when I realised friends had different views. I also remember at 7 not wanting to be a "grown adult", and I still don't get it. My atheism has come and gone. 
I figured out the tooth fairy did not exist at 4 or 5, Santa Claus at 6 or 7, God at eight or nine... Never really thought about it... But it occurred to me he was like Santa. Couldn't possibly exist. Church didn't help me... It seemed too absurd and no one had any evidence. JD
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February 6, 2013 at 3:44 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2013 at 3:47 pm by Zone.)
God could possibly exist sure, or something vaguely like that that we don't really know anything much about. Some kind of collective overmind or whatever. But possible. It shouldn't be about what you rule out but what specifically you rule in and what evidence you have for it.
I have slowly been throwing off the yoke of theism for several years now. A slow realization since I was about 18 or so. Perhaps one of the biggest reasons was the amazing hypocrisy and logical fallacies presented by theists.
"For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light." Matthew 11:30
At which point someone should have said "Yes but it's still a yoke and a burden isn't it Jesus?" 
After twenty centuries, it's gone way beyond a yoke.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(January 31, 2013 at 9:40 pm)iameatingjam Wrote: I was raised Christian, but I remember asking a lot of questions and having some doubts when I was about 8... Why did all the biblical stories stop? Why doesn't god do magical things that prove he exists today? I am about to be 14, and I was a Skeptical Christian from about when I was 10 until about 13. I am now Agnostic, and plan to try to find another religion. If I don't, then I guess I'll be a full-on Atheist. 
I was born an atheist. I just never asked myself if I believed in a god or gods until I was 8, and then I realized the answer was no.
(February 10, 2013 at 2:21 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: I was born an atheist. I just never asked myself if I believed in a god or gods until I was 8, and then I realized the answer was no. Everyone is born an atheist. Its not some mythical being babies cry out for when they are lonely or hungry. All the faith you care to have won't magically put milk in a baby's stomach. Theism is taught by parents and others the child grows up around. Which god you are taught to exist is based largely on which geographic area you are born in. Thats two of the above realizations that started me on the path to atheism. |
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