Why did you become an atheist?

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Demi Navaeh Ponn's picture
Why did you become an atheist?

I was just curious to see what the last straw was for other people. What made it clear to you that a god didn't exist?

I can't remember the specific time I stopped believing, but it know when I was about 10-11 years old I found out Santa wasn't real. After that I stopped trusting everything people told me, and started thinking for myself. That of course lead to questioning the Christian faith I was raised in. Though it didn't take long for threats of hell fire and damnation to rain down from my family members, and even friends (Still I was only 10-11 years old).

So I gave up questioning god and just went with it. And for a few years I really did believe that there was a god. I didn't start questioning again until I was about 16-17, and then finally became agnostic at 18. Which very soon after lead to my firm atheism of today. :)

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dingusnerdbane's picture
I left Christianity when I
ex-christian_atheist's picture
I studied christianity too
Nuts Silk's picture
This won't be, most likely,
Kirche's picture
I saw a display here in
Joseph Breton's picture
I was in Bible college in
Zaphod's picture
Oddly, enough I can't really
Kirche's picture
I'm a Roman Catholic as well,
Jeff Vella Leone's picture
Mine was the hypocrisy of
Kirche's picture
Is that a leading question?
Kirche's picture
Where is the editor, the
the_Gremlin's picture
With me, I'd always been
SonOh1's picture
In third grade I was thinking

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