Why and How Did you Kill God?

[ScienceAf]

Personally and honestly I'd love to hear some of the stories you guys and gals experienced through your journey to enlightenment (atheism).

Just post it down here.

[Minimalist]

The realization that there are no gods does not mean we killed them. 

You can't kill what never existed.

[ScienceAf]

The realization that there are no gods does not mean we killed them. 

You can't kill what never existed.

BURRRRRRRRNNNNNN, GETTTTT REEEKKKTTT JEEEEESSUUUUUSSSS!!!!

[vorlon13]

eating life

[purplepurpose]

I think OP meant to say about "death" of faith or doubts regarding the existance of God.

I believe God exists and that he is a brutal creator. Just look at how our prideful dictators act - very brutal.

Even if he exists, there is no reason to become his voluntary slave, its as bad as death in some sense, its the death of joy.

It triggers me when people with enthusiasm preach "divine investment program" of God. Thats so contradicting to think of buying an immortality and trying to accept that whole eternity you will be a voluntary slave to a God.

Its much easier to accept the death as an atheist and live calmly, even if its temporary, than lightly torture youself mentally for the rest of the life with the idea of hell to try to become Gods slave.

[A Handmaid]

My answer would be here: http://atheistforums.org/thread-44890.html

[KevinM1]

I never truly believed.

I wanted to believe, because everyone around me did and I didn't want to disappoint them or get in trouble. I tried very hard to believe. Went through the motions, and created an image of god I could respect. But none of it was real. It was just my own imagination at work. I finally admitted it to myself shortly after 9/11 (not that the event had anything to do with it), and I've been happy ever since.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

My parents taught me how to think and not what to think.

Saw through the BS around the age of 6/7 at school, never believed in a deity.

It's much easier to be an atheist in a country where everyone at their heart is a sceptical grumpy bastard.

[abaris]

I never was very much interested. Not even as a child when I still believed in ghosts. At some time religion and me just drifted apart for good. Can't lay my hands on the moment, since it wasn't dramatic. But I know that there was a moment in the summer of '90 when I stood at a catholic crossroads display and thought, this is to simplistic. That's when I finally noticed that I'm not the least bit religious.

[Cyberman]

I didn't need to kill "God". The character was never born to me. It was and continues to be literally a non-factor in my life.