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Logic

Not atheist, but my mom and gma were over the top bout religion while I was growing up and I never saw what they saw.

Common sense.

Euphoria.

I'd probably think the main driver for me becoming an atheist was my parents putting me in Catholic Sunday school to prepare me for communion and confirmation.

atheists aren't made, they're born.

If you haven't found faith in a higher power, you're still a spiritual infant.

proudclad

When I realized that too much bad shit happens to innocent people. And that there is no justice in the world. A good example is what's happening right now in Gaza.

Nothing. Im a good DoC Christian boy who throws gang signs out the window of my Mercedes on a regular basis.

I can never bring myself to believe in a being that listens to 16 billion voices all at once and judges their entire life thereafter and decides where you exist for eternity. It's an absurd concept that I can't ever consider possible.

Nothing made me an atheist it is just a natural evolution of thinking about religion and it not making sense.

Pitlord_Special posted...

atheists aren't made, they're born.

If you haven't found faith in a higher power, you're still a spiritual infant.

I mean if this nonsense was the case then you'd never have priests or pastors become atheists but that absolutely does happen.

Bill Mahers standup when I was like nine

Just the way God made me.

Never had any reason not to be.

Just dont give a shit about religion

Didnt grow up in a religious home, and the concept overall just never made sense.

I read the bible. Thought "Wow, that's full of shit" and here we are. None of it really makes any sense, and it's a pretty poor moral code except for a few ideas it has that were borrowed from other cultures. Like I mean you aren't supposed to eat shrimp. And then there's working on sunday's. that's one of the top 10 laws! Top 10! If you made a list of top ten laws, working on sunday would probably not make the cut. Or at least I'd hope not. Also there's a dirt man who marries a woman who was made from one of his ribs. That's gotta be incest, right? And then their three sons populate the world somehow. Apparently god decided to leave out all the details where their wives come from. But not to worry! He drowns the rest of the world a few chapters later anyway, and then we get more incest followed by even more incest. I swear it's the biggest incestfic I've seen in my life. You've got this guy Lot who offers his daughters to be raped by the town, and he's clearly a good righteous man for doing that. Then his wife gets turned into salt for turning around for half a second, cause apparently that makes god really angry. She looked back. Don't know why. Maybe she wanted to see what happened. Maybe she left the stove on. Maybe she forgot her favorite outfit, and wanted to go back and get it. But nope. Salt. Then his daughters drug him and rape him and get pregnant and have more incest babies. Like I said, it's a bit of an incest fic. Don't tell me it isn't! If this were any book but the bible, conservatives would be freaking out about how much incest is in this book. Or maybe turned on. Depends on if it's in an elementary school run by liberals or not.

And don't get me started on the whole sacrificing his son, who was also himself, for three whole days. Jesus was betrayed? by Judas, who turned him into the roman authorities. This was, of course, part of God's plan. God needed Judas to do this, but it was Satan who tempted him into it. Are they in cahoots? Satan's like "let's get jesus murdered." and God's like "Totally." Judas is of course hte bad guy of the story, who completes the good guys plan to get himself executed. Oh and... his followers now use his form of execution as a symbol of him and wear it around their necks. If the guillotine had been invented at the time, we'd be seeing everyone wearing guillotine necklaces right now. That's kinda fucked up when you think about it.

The important parts, of course are all the parts that teach you to hate people different from yourselves. Particularly gay people. Love your neighbors (unless they're gay, or a democrat).

Wasn't hard to notice all the hypocrisy. And if people who believe that not following the book will cause them to spend an eternity being stun by scorpions in a lake of fire in total darkness won't follow all the rules in the book... well how much can they really believe in it?

As for why I didn't find another religion, well... one would have to find me first. I'm not going to go looking for a black cat in the dark unless I hear it meow.

Nothing significant. Neither did I 'facts and logic' my way there.

I just wasn't feeling it.

YugiNoob posted...

Logic

This I guess.

My Alpha-Bits spelled out "THERE IS NO GOD ONLY BREAKFAST CEREAL" one morning before school.

Philosophy

Always have been

One of the earliest reasons I can remember is the few times my guardians took me to Sunday school, the staff there didn't want us reading the old testament. So I did and saw through that bullshit. Even if their god was real, I would never worship him.

Laziness

Pitlord_Special posted...

atheists aren't made, they're born.

If you haven't found faith in a higher power, you're still a spiritual infant.

*dismissive wank*

Three parts logic, one part running into way too many religious hypocrites in my life that only served to further expose what many use religion for.

You have to explain away so much in religion cause its made up......

I wasn't indoctrinated into a religion as a kid and find the claims of various religions entirely unbelievable.

I guess being raised religious?

I'm not one.

Math

7 years of church made me an atheist.

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Idk but man was it fun seeing him argue with a bunch of early 2010s fedora atheist edgelords and mostly win because he had at least a modicum of understanding of philosophical and spiritual theory which was more than anyone else on CE could say

YugiNoob posted...

Logic

Ironically, this is why I'm a theist. Given what I understand about life and the universe, I wager that the existence of a higher power is more probable than not.

religion never had a large part in my life outside of the one week of vacation bible school every summer until I was like 11 or 12(I liked that because food and games). The disconnect for me came from learning things in church(when i rarely went, like VBS) but my school teachers never mentioning it. I figured if I don't learn this stuff in school, it must not matter that much.

That and I distinctly remember my friend a year older than me arguing with the one counselor about how we came from monkeys at VBS once, and that dude was quite angry. I didn't understand any of it, at all, that my friend was on to. But perhaps that swayed me as well, actually seeing some dissent(even if wrong) in person.

Boy am I glad I never got into it. To me, a waste of time. Life give me enough fullfillment without worrying about a god or being heavenly.

Cruelty made me one, honestly. I heard "god won't give you more than you can handle" a little too much one year.

Huge tree limb fell on my house, had to get teeth pulled, dog passed away, best friend got hit by a car(he lived thankfully), relatives I was staying with while basically homeless during repairs tried to fuckin rob me blind, and a lot more.

Since then, I won't say I'm still a complete atheist, I have a... Complicated relationship with faith. Guess I would be agnostic by definition right now? Easiest way to describe it anyway.

Honestly it just seems absurd to claim that a god does not exist, or that if it does, you know the exact nature of it.

When I was a kid, Jesus name appeared to me on a tortilla with a message

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Standup comedy, listening to debates of Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, reading a couple books, and just generally me being a rational / logical person who grew up a math kid and became a computer programmer.