I became an atheist because religion is fucking retarded
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What made you become an atheist?
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I was born as an Atheist. My parents never indoctrinated me into their religion.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
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In my case I make a distinction between atheism and nonbelief, because for my whole life I've been a nonbeliever- let's call it deism, because I had the loosest of loose concepts of god, and beyond that a desire that there be one, but only the smallest pulses of faith.
But then I got interested in this stuff. I began watching debates, scoping out arguments for and against god, and what I found was not only that the arguments for the atheist position were more compelling, but that the majority of the liars, spin doctors, fraudsters and simple terrible debaters were on the side of god. I became an atheist by watching other atheists, but I became an active one who argues about this shit because of the magnitude of the dishonesty and poor argumentation from the theistic side. The former was compelling, the latter pissed me off enough to want to do something about it. 
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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For me it was investigation: I studied biology and chemistry and read the bible in the same 2 year period. Bible was clearly nonsense, science made lots of sense.
Lemonvariable72
Copenhagen School  Religious Views: Its all bullshit to keep you handing money to the usher.
I had a gay friend in college that challenged me on it constantly because to was a former christian. That when i stopped and though why would god make gay people then order them killed for being gay and then send them to hell for it? After that thw nature of the bible became plain as day.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.  RE: What made you become an atheist?
September 9, 2013 at 5:45 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2013 at 5:46 pm by ManMachine.)
(February 8, 2012 at 8:40 am)SophiaGrace Wrote: For me, atheism sits better with me than Christianity ever did. I was constantly trying to fit Christianity into a mold of logic which did not work, and i realized that and gave up. I am an atheist because it is a position I find most reasonable. It's as simple as that. MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment) 
Well, I like to sacrifice infants to Satan (praise his unholy name) and the bi-monthly meetings of my local Atheist Baby Sacrificing Society And Sewing Circle was the most convenient place.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
 RE: What made you become an atheist?
September 9, 2013 at 11:09 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2013 at 11:10 pm by Clueless Morgan.)
A self-led school project on the Bermuda Triangle; found out that was bullshit when I really wanted it to be true, then started looking into psychics, tarot, astrology, Lock Ness and Big Foot, ghosts, astral projection, and creationism (and a whole host of other wacky stuff but creationism is what opened the door to questioning religion and god). I found that I didn't believe any of it and there was no good reason to believe any of it.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
There is a heaven for us after death yes?
Well is there a heaven for dogs? Ants? Cats? Tigers? You get the picture.... Why are we so special???, we are not, this ideology is a result of a bigger brain that's all, we are so self aware. Humans think too much and as a subsequence think we are more important than anything else,!!! Oh dear. 
Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, Santa.......I recognised a sequence and God disappeared in a puff of logic. I was 9.
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