@Atheists

[PyroManiac]

Could you please tell me why you chose to become Atheist?


I grew up in a Catholic church and 2 years ago, I started believing otherwise. All that I believed, was false, and I have wasted my time believing in a figment of my imagination.

Tell me your story!

[Question Mark]

I don't think I can describe my becoming an atheist as a choice exactly. The reason that I became an atheist is because I couldn't find any evidence for the existence of any gods that I knew of, and I was not in the mindset that there has to be a creator. Once I realised that there was no evidence in front of me that a god exists, it made me question the various notions of religion, which up until then I had accepted as historical fact.

[PyroManiac]

Evidence is everything.

[Gilgamesh]

I didn't choose to become an atheist. I was born this way and have been ever since.

[FallentoReason]

My deconversion began when I reached the peak of my faith as a Pentecostal Christian. I was so sure I had the right belief that I joined my first Atheist forum and began my "ministry" of apologetics. After a period of 4 months, I was faced with severe problems all across the board; credibility of Biblical documents, moral ethics, no evidence of miracles today, historical inconsistencies in the Jesus narrative, lack of personal revelations, the True Biblical Interpretation™, parallels to Pagan religions...

I basically was living under a rock feeding off the words of a mammal up on stage every Sunday. When I realised how wrong and naive I was, I had to be honest with myself and accept that the truth is no religion is true (because if poor baby Jesus is just a figment of Western culture's imagination, then to hell with the rest of the other religions!).

[Faith No More]

It wasn't a choice...it was a realization.

[Minimalist]

There was no "ah ha" moment. There was a recognition that catholic religious personnel were morons and later an understanding that there is nothing to sustain the absurd beliefs of xtians.....or any other bunch of theists.

[cratehorus]

when I was 10 I read a book called Atheism...... /end story

[Napoléon]

I hated singing hymns at school. "He's got the whole world, in his hands". I thought it was a load of bollocks even then, but I guess I re-affirmed my position when I became 13/14 and started using the internet to explore science and reasoning. Also studying critical thinking as a subject in school helped me a lot. As someone else already said, there wasn't any 'ah ha' moment, but simply a gradual strengthening of my viewpoint as I learned more and more about organised religion and the many wholes in the idea of a deity.

TL: DR Educating yourself is good mmmkay.

[Kayenneh]

I'm lazy, here's my story