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RE: What made you become an atheist?
September 21, 2018 at 9:12 pm
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What was born in 2012, awakened for a spell in 2015 and then came to life again in just the last couple days?
Answer: this thread.
Gee, I wonder if I responded to this thread in either of its past lives? I'll go ahead and respond now and then see if I did before.
Today's answer: nothing made me do it, I just stopped spontaneously when I got a little further along in adolescence.
Yep, I did. Post #22. What a lot of blather.
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
September 22, 2018 at 12:24 am
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Born that way, coming on 40 years ago.
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
September 22, 2018 at 10:14 am
My parents raised me to think for myself. I danced around with theism around 8 or 9, it was a brief moment of "wtf" and "really?" After that I never even bothered with studying it in any way. I keep hearing you should read the bible, study this or that and it took very little of my time to see it was a total waste of time.
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
September 22, 2018 at 11:22 am
Jesus appeared to me in a dream and told me that if I didn't become an atheist, he'd send me to Hell.
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‘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
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
September 22, 2018 at 11:56 am
I was 50. The attributes of consciousness and willfulness fell out of my God-concept, then later than year I read the argument of improbability in Dawkins' The God Delusion. I was an atheist before I finished reading the book.
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
September 22, 2018 at 11:56 am
(September 22, 2018 at 11:56 am)Thoreauvian Wrote: I was 50. The attributes of consciousness and willfulness fell out of my God-concept, then later than year I read the argument of improbability in Dawkins' The God Delusion. I was an atheist before I finished reading the book.
Ever read anything by Robert Green Ingersoll?
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
September 22, 2018 at 12:03 pm
(September 22, 2018 at 11:56 am)Kit Wrote: (September 22, 2018 at 11:56 am)Thoreauvian Wrote: I was 50. The attributes of consciousness and willfulness fell out of my God-concept, then later than year I read the argument of improbability in Dawkins' The God Delusion. I was an atheist before I finished reading the book.
Ever read anything by Robert Green Ingersoll?
I read selections of his ideas in The Quotable Atheist, another favorite book. I underlined seven of his quotes. Otherwise I have not read his works. Do you have a recommendation?
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
September 22, 2018 at 12:09 pm
(September 22, 2018 at 12:03 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: (September 22, 2018 at 11:56 am)Kit Wrote: Ever read anything by Robert Green Ingersoll?
I read selections of his ideas in The Quotable Atheist, another favorite book. I underlined seven of his quotes. Otherwise I have not read his works. Do you have a recommendation?
Always. 
About the Holy Bible
The Devil
Why I Am an Agnostic
Plenty of other works
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
September 23, 2018 at 3:43 am
I can't really name one particular event or thing that lead me away from religion. It was a few things:
The resistance I was met with any time I questioned my father about something that didn't make sense concerning religion/god.
The half-truths and circular logic that never really made sense to me as a kid.
The overall attitude that many religious people take that wanting to obtain knowledge is somehow sinful or bad. The overall idea that we are supposed to just praise god for all of eternity and not really concern ourselves with "Earthly pleasures."
Also, my father used to constantly try and scare us about the rapture. I really just never understood why a supposedly loving god would supposedly let us get tortured for not accepting the "mark of the beast" if we were left behind. Seemed insane to me.
Interestingly enough, my father, from the outside, does not seem like a religious man. He drinks heavily, does drugs and is openly hateful towards minorities. He's a walking contradiction.
So yea I finally just started questioning all of this stuff in my teen years and realized when I was 16 or 17 that none of that shit made sense to me and I probably started identifying as an atheist at around 17 or 18. Today I'm 25 and I'm still happy as hell I don't believe in any of that garbage. It's simply not necessarily and doesn't actually give us answers to anything we need to know. It truly is pointless.
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
September 23, 2018 at 3:53 am
(September 21, 2018 at 7:49 pm)IWNKYAAIMI Wrote: Christians.
QFT although pretty much any member of the god squad would suffice.
CofE primary school + zealous head teacher who liked to pontificate and preach to us = an entire class of atheists.
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