Delirious Posted July 10 Posted July 10 When you realized that your religion was actually extremely ****** up and controlling and 90% of the community was terrible And everyone always wanted some sort of delusional miracle to happen without actually spending any effort 1
Likingstars Posted July 10 Posted July 10 Everyone is born an atheist, then we get brainwashed into religion 4
LittleCupid Posted July 10 Posted July 10 I was never religious even though all the people around me claim to be Christian. I used to be mad when my dad woke us up to read Bible verses at 5am and on the rare occasions we ever went to a church I would fall asleep or be bored. I never told certain people in my family I don't believe in religion because I'd either get forced to go to church or I'd get attacked. Luckily I was able to cut off all contact with those people as I grew older. 1
ATRL Moderator Juánny Posted July 10 ATRL Moderator Posted July 10 Learning more about the world and science over time I just find theistic arguments less compelling. I'm not closed to the concept but I'm going to need more to be convinced than what is being offered to me. Also, most of the mainstream religions discourage me getting d**k and that's not happening.
50thStateofMind Posted July 11 Posted July 11 literally, learning about and being exposed to world religions made me realize MANY things (among them...that I think the sole purpose of religion is to control people).
Loca Posted July 11 Posted July 11 I was born an atheist, lol. Nothing about religion convinced me to go against my nature.
Miss Show Business Posted July 11 Posted July 11 The more I learn and understand science, the more Atheist I become. Science has provided real, demonstrable answers to life's problems: religion has not, if anything, it's only caused more problems. The more I learned about how Christianity was like in the middle ages, the more I realized it's one and the same with other violent religious extremist views. I do believe it's reasonable for religious people to also believe in science, but for me personally, religion has always seemed like a made up answer to make sense of death. I think, unfortunately, this life is all we have. I don't want to live my life preparing for an afterlife that may not even exist. 1
NoOneDiesFromLove Posted July 11 Posted July 11 When I realized how terrible religion made me feel about myself, about committing "sins", about not going to church or giving money or not praying enough, realized that was no way to live. Also when someone broke down how Christianity (and basically any religion) are brainwashing cults 1
Illuminati Posted July 11 Posted July 11 The ability to think for myself. I'm not a true atheist though, I mean hello Lana is right there
gatito Posted July 11 Posted July 11 (edited) my parents are catholic but they were never really devout to begin with, we'd go to church once in a while maybe if there was a funeral or around christmas. i was also very skeptical and asked a lot of questions so the whole god almighty thing never made sense to me. i even had my first communion and all but it was mostly because of the party (we're mexican lmao) and i hated every step of the process, the worst thing was having to confess my "sins" to a priest. i didn't feel like i had done anything wrong and the fact that they wanted me to feel guilty made me anxious af so once i was done with that i wanted nothing to do with religion ever again Edited July 11 by gatito
Alldeezy Posted July 11 Posted July 11 Was born like it and because my dad's side was really c. They used to pray for me calling me the devil's child and growing up that pissed me off. Plus my mum's mum got raped in a church by a priest and seeing how they were awful towards me and hearing all those stories. I was smart and stayed atheist I'm an atheist with satanic stuff all over my house Spoiler Plus my grandfather who was very religious took advantage of me from 4 upto I was 17? I will never support God supporting people because those people are what gave Trauma for the rest of my life. Such evil evil people
getBusy Posted July 11 Posted July 11 I just never bought that bs to begin with. And my parents made me go to church every Sunday until i turned 18, so they really tried lol
shyboi Posted July 11 Posted July 11 literally every member of my family is atheist, bless their souls tbh 1
Into The Void Posted July 11 Posted July 11 2 hours ago, NoOneDiesFromLove said: When I realized how terrible religion made me feel about myself, about committing "sins", about not going to church or giving money or not praying enough, realized that was no way to live. Also when someone broke down how Christianity (and basically any religion) are brainwashing cults I mean I'm Christian but I dint feel guilty about committing sins if I'm being honest lol
ChooseyLover Posted July 11 Posted July 11 (edited) Common sense. But more often than not I wish I had something to believe in. I can see how that could be beneficial for my mental health Funnily enough though I gravitate towards gospel influenced music and songs with Christian messages... Plus I think I have a bit of Catholic guilt so I didn't come out on the other side in one piece. Edited July 11 by ChooseyLover
Gorjesspazze9 Posted July 11 Posted July 11 Not atheist, but I realized how much religion literally feels like a cult once I got older. And Both of my parents are Pastors and I was raised in the church💀 1
Archetype Posted July 11 Posted July 11 No one had to tell me anything, I just remember always thinking it was BS since I was a child being taken to church. Then my thoughts were confirmed when I was actually forced to study the Bible and religious texts. Imagine believing anything in those books, it's pure comedy
Pop Life Posted July 11 Posted July 11 I used to go to a religious private school and they really hated it when I asked questions about the Bible or their sermons. They thought I was "challenging them," which was ridiculous because I was like, 10. But I kept asking questions and eventually I was kicked out and told never to return. I couldn't understand how something as supposedly perfect as God couldn't withstand even the most basic scrutiny without crumbling.
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