Atheism, Darwin, and Internet

[Wunsbee]

For me it was so many things. I have always questioned everything, a natural skeptic. Even with this I was indoctrinated. I started thinking about how I questioned everything and disregarded things that didn't make sense and how I didn't apply the same logic to my religious beliefs. Of course I would question but I would find some crazy apologist response or some other way to make sense of it. I went through many religious faces.

As a child I was obsessed with mythology (Mostly Greek Mythology) and I often asked myself why I viewed mythology in one way and the bible in another. Soon after I started viewing them in the same light. All gods, dead or alive are the same truly, not real! haha

I actually lost my faith in any sort of after life, after that It didn't matter if there was a god but now I have no belief in either, obviously(: So it was logic, the internet, books, and just thinking about it that lead me to become an atheist.

[T.J.]

Back when I ate up what the church told me and repeated some of these poor arguments in religious debates I got ripped a new asshole and rightfully so. Through repeatedly failed arguments and other threads my mind started to become a little more and more open to rationality. I'd keep going back and forth for a while until finally I was too alienated by other Christians to want to be around them. The last church I attended kept talking about how awful Muslims and Obama were through propaganda I knew was bullshit anyway.

Then I just stopped praying, going to church and reading the bible. My fear in God decreased as I was no longer compel to repent for any 'sin' and after coming here and reading many of the arguments I used to read all the time and answering how being told I'm going to hell made me feel, once I was finished with that post it was the straw that broke the camel back and I renounced it all.

I never had faith to begin with. Only fear.

[Bob Kelso]

It took a long time for me to raise myself up out of that mire of hypocrisy and lies. I was unfortunate enough to grow up with a grandfather as a pastor and a family that followed him blindly. That being said they aren't bad people themselves, just gullible and under the influence of bullshit. At 15 I began to question the bible, I remember learning about the OT and questioning why slavery, execution and other terrible acts were ok with god. From there my questions turned to cynicism and hatred for the church goers around me. They were just like the people around us who were "lost" and acted no differently save for their haughty pious attitudes.

At 20 I stopped going to church and ceased thinking about it while still retaining a belief in god, until I had a discussion with some friends about religion and started down a road of introspection and fact checking. At 23 here I am, an atheist leaning towards anti-theism and I've never felt better about my life and my decision to ditch the dogma.