How many years have you been an atheist?

[Welsh cake]

I was a Roman Catholic for most of my childhood.

I left the corruption of the church and became an irreligious Christian.

Then I became a Universalist upon studying Revelations because I couldn't resolve the problem of evil.

I converted to Misotheism when there were too many contradictions in the Bible to ever support a loving caring God, and started to believe God was an evil monster. My belief-system in Christianity eventually collapsed into itself when I could no longer rely on the Bible as authoritative.

Believing all religions were man-made I converted to Pantheism/Pandeism and started alternating between the two positions constantly. Ultimately I had to accept I had no basis for renaming the real Universe as "god".

I realised if any god existed it didn't care about human affairs or our lives, period. I converted to deism, however I soon had to accept I had no evidence and no good reason for thinking such a creator being exists at all.

Soon, I couldn't even define God so I became an ignostic.

The belief in a creator or deity imploded soon afterwards and I fell into depression when I confessed there was never any being who was benevolent and cared whether or not I lived or died, it was just me and my own imagination projecting what I wanted onto my own mental construct. My egocentric views of reality were abolished promptly after understanding this.

I honestly truly didn't know what I was at this point. It took several years for me to identify myself as an atheist when I got off my lazy backside and applied a little research and quick study.