What made you turn?

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What made you turn?

Hi! I'm new here and I've always had the question, how did other atheist became atheist? I mean, what event(s) in your life made you turn from religion to atheism; for me, was the confirmations, back when I was 15, I realized I didn’t need what the church was offering to me, I found everything it had to offer elsewhere, friends, answers, support, and such, but the most significant thing I remember, was one of the counselors, he was a recovered alcoholic, and his story was that through god and all that he found himself again and recovered and well you know the drill, but at the same time, I met this other dude, that also came back from a very severe addiction, and got his life back by cycling, he started racing and left the bottle, so I thought, "well this Sunday thing is bs, I don’t need this, I have everything I need in my sports, family, friends, school, I don’t need this", that plus the fact that the whole god idea never really made sense to me turned into an atheist. So what made you guys see the truth?

BTW sorry for my bad english.

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