Atheism, Darwin, and Internet

[Severan]

I'm back, motherf***ers! (I bet you're glad that I'm back) (and I am writing this at breakfast listening to my grandma talk some religious crap.) I'm here to ask you all what influenced you to cease your belief in a god (if you are in fact non-religious) Was it evolution(or as religious people call it evilution), the internet, your parents, reading the facts OR ACTUALLY FUCKING READING THE BIBLE about that racist homophobic sacrificial violent god? This thread is meant for all of you to just let it all out. Speak your story of deconversion!

[Optimistic Mysanthrope]

I'm not sure I ever really believed. I just remember hearing various bible stories when I was a child and thinking they were ridiculous. I didn't take them any more seriously than when I read charlie and the chocolate factory.

[Brakeman]

For me it was the observation of the assholy christians around me. I knew that if they had any connection at all to a "good" god, absolutely none of it was rubbing off.

[Owlix]

To me, the proof, the evidence, the reason I know there is no such thing as a god or many gods (which is part of a larger group of stuff I know to be untrue such as fairies, ghosts, demons, magical powers, spells, gnomes, elves for the shoemaker, etc.) is kind of a compilation of so many things I can't pin it down to one. Henceforth the above grouping of stuff will be referred to as - stuff

For instance;

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I know stuff is highly unlikely to exist because the account of one stuff is eerily similar to the account of another stuff that was around some time before and far far away.

I know stuff is highly unlikely to exist because christians have so many contradictions within the one book they really have to stand on (... this book is like a leg that's infested with termites, so it's a short matter of time before the mites have chewed through it, you ask me.) that when you ask for an explanation, excuses or misdirections are stated rather than a true reason as to why this book says one thing here and within a number of pages says something that can in no way be construed as the same or even a similar statement to the prior one.

I know stuff is highly unlikely because fairies themselves branch from an old pagan belief which created them, as with other mythological beings.

I know stuff is highly unlikely to exist because of all the religions that existed before and are now relegated to mythologies, no longer held to be true.

I know stuff is highly unlikely to exist. Science proves how old everything is. No, not to an exact number but we now know what sorta numbers we're dealing with. If it's not that number, it's probably only going to get higher.

I know stuff is highly unlikely to exist because we now know what is under our feet. It's not a burning eternity for anything, it's liquid heat fucking molten lava.

I know stuff is highly unlikely to exist because we now know what is above our heads. There are no cloud houses and pretty little fences where winged human like creatures sing and dance and tell stories around the campcloud. There's space, particles, planets, quasars, black holes, stars... and the absence of all those things.

I know stuff is highly unlikely to exist because so many stuffs around the world have gotten lenient from their own moral codes to 'keep up with the times'. Nuh-uh. Owlix don't dig that. You take it all literally because that's how it was written. When those books talked about women who exposed themselves deserve to be raped, when those books talked about slaves being beaten and owned, when those books talked about doing good to others in this life means your next life will be better, when those books talked all that stuff, it was written to be taken verbatim. If not, those books would've stated as such.

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I know all this stuff is very, very highly unlikely because of every unlikely situation I just stated above. I noticed all these things, learned these things, discovered these things, researched these things. All of this seen separately isn't a big deal. And then everything came together at once and I realized it's all connected in myth and fairy telling, albeit unintended.

But that's just me.

http://atheistforums.org/thread-21750-page-2.html

[Silver]

For me it was a combination of two things.

As Brakeman stated, scrutinizing other believers around me and their obhorent behavior in the name of their so-called holy religion.

Reading some of Robert Green Ingersoll's works.

[Minimalist]

There was no internet when I realized this god shit was exactly that and I read Origin of Species much later.....difficult to wade through mid 19th century prose but I made it.

Really, it is not so hard to see that "man created god" and not vice versa.

[*Deidre*]

I don't think that we can know for sure either way, so agnosticism is a safe bet.

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I will say though, I came to realize all religions were man made, when the 'rules' of them changed like the wind. A Supreme Being doesn't have the qualities of a human, if one should exist, so it just seems like the work of man trying to make sense of what he doesn't know.

[Doubting Thomas]

For me it was a long process but basically it was when I realized that everything people tell you isn't necessarily true.

[Lion IRC]

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[MitchBenn]

I'm back, motherf***ers! (I bet you're glad that I'm back) (and I am writing this at breakfast listening to my grandma talk some religious crap.) I'm here to ask you all what influenced you to cease your belief in a god (if you are in fact non-religious) Was it evolution(or as religious people call it evilution), the internet, your parents, reading the facts OR ACTUALLY FUCKING READING THE BIBLE about that racist homophobic sacrificial violent god? This thread is meant for all of you to just let it all out. Speak your story of deconversion!

Why would you assume I "ceased" believing in god?

I NEVER believed in god. I was born atheist - as indeed was EVERYBODY - and nothing has happened to change that.