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In what age did you find out god does not exis?
#11
RE: In what age did you find out god does not exis?
Quote:when i was around 8 or 9 i just kinda...slowly backed away...then ran out of the church.


Always a good idea to back away. You don't want to give a priest a glimpse of your ass.
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#12
RE: In what age did you find out god does not exis?
I stopped believing in God around the age of 15 or 16. Then, around the first year of college, I started to believe again.

Although there is no hardcore evidence for the existence of God, I believe in Him especially because of a kind of inductive reasoning by looking at the world around me and I feel that there is some kind of an intelligence behind the universe when I look at the beauty and complexity of the stars, galaxies, animals, and our planet as a whole. I find it unlikely that all of this would come about simply as an accident or as a by-product of mindless, purposeless forces. Hence this is one of my reasons for believing in a Creator.
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#13
RE: In what age did you find out god does not exis?
Although I was probably 28 years old before I fully acknowledged to myself that I am an atheist, I can see hints of this disbelief as far back as highschool. My college education was first the study of Anthropology and psychology, which later was switched to geology. And it was my study of geology that ultimately led to my completely abandoning my Catholic faith, though I was always a strong advocate of the theory of evolution. My subsequent professional years have reinforced my disbelief in religion.
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- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

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#14
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Religion's ultimate and unavoidable fallback is "someone willed it this way". This is a 4 year old's attempt at explanation and is really no explanation whatsoever. Yet this is as far as religion could ever go and which religion, for its own survival, would have humanity never going beyond. This is why I see no potential for real fundamental virtue in religion, only unlimited potential for vice.
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I was about 20 when I stopped believing completely, after a couple of years of my faith slowly withering away, through a gradual process of questioning in my late teens. Becoming an atheist, I think, was inevitable, especially once I started university. Now my position on the supernatural is always one of disbelief, until I see compelling evidence to the contrary, and the more I live and learn, the more I realize that a naturalistic worldview is the only one that makes any sense.
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#16
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I think it was the middle age, just after the witch burnings.
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#17
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It was only last year (when I was 27) I stopped completely in believing there was anything beyond natural phenomenon, that can be studied scientifically.
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#18
RE: In what age did you find out god does not exis?
γειά σου.

hmmm, interesting question. Around 14 - 16 id say. I didn't really think about the existence of god as such, but was strangely interested in the subject, and used to ask people about their religious beleifs.

I suppose I just took it for granted that god(s) don't exist.
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#19
RE: In what age did you find out god does not exis?
I was about 8 years old when I started being exposed to other religions (other than Christianity) and philosophy. After seeing things from other perspectives and learning many new scientific and spiritual ideas I came to this conclusion;

"I believe that there are no God(s), but I do not claim to know that there are no God(s). I do claim to know that religion as we know it is false, based on an abundance of reasons."

I am now 16 and am an Agnostic Atheist.
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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#20
RE: In what age did you find out god does not exis?
I 'sort of' believed in God up to the age of about 11. My belief was nothing profound as I'd simply never though any differently. I just assumed there was a God and Jesus was his son. From the age of 11 the only way I could make sense of the world and why all sorts of horrible things happened was to say that there was no God. After that, everything made far more sense and it also allowed me to start using my imagination and freed up my thoughts and ideas without the thought that someone was reading my mind and judging me for thinking the 'wrong' things.
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