(December 30, 2015 at 12:26 pm)Red_Wind Wrote:(December 30, 2015 at 10:17 am)Deidre32 Wrote: If you were ever a theist/believer, what led you to no longer believe? Not looking to preach, that’s not my thing and it’s against rules anyway, but just curious. I remember my own journey over the past few years with it all, and just thought it’d be interesting to hear your ‘stories’ if you were once believers before identifying as an atheist.
How do you know which of the dozens of religions is true?, why do the holy books of the various religions have so many many contradictions and logical fallacies?, why is there a need for a god?
Of course few if any theists come to god belief abstractly. It is almost always the gods ones parents have which one inherits. Without knowing why there is a need for gods we should begin by acknowledging there has almost aways been god belief among peoples from all over the world, and there is evidence that it has been around a very long time. Why is there a need? Don't know. I have no need for them but this belief arises just the same. I guess it will fall out of fashion when it does, if it does.