Atheist

by **Amerandski** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:11 pm

So, why are you an Atheist? What caused you to discover "God" doesn't exist. Mine was getting diagnosed with MS.

by **Ifreann** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:12 pm

I caught it from a public bathroom.

by **Divair** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:12 pm

Nothing caused me to be an atheist, I was one since birth. I just never converted to a religion because they lack evidence.

by **Genivaria** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:12 pm

I read the bible.

by **Conserative Morality** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:13 pm

First I found out God was unproven and unprovable. Then everything started going downhill.

by **Genivaria** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:14 pm

Conserative Morality wrote:First I found out God was unproven and unprovable. Then everything started going downhill.

For me I started to embrace the whole 'God gave us Reason, not Religion' bit from Deism, then it kind of just went downhill.

by **Ostroeuropa** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:14 pm

I've been an atheist since birth.
I began to be a conscious atheist (actively knowing some arguments as to why god doesn't exist, as opposed to simply not believing and being like "Meh, not convinced." etc.) around 5 years ago when I discovered hitchens.

by **Typhlochactas** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:16 pm

I've been an atheist since I was twelve. I didn't find any reason to believe in god.

by **Person012345** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:17 pm

I just realised that christianity made no damn sense and that the god I was reading about was clearly a monster. Around age 12 or so I guess.

by **Varijnland** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:17 pm

God told me he didn't exist

by **Dyakovo** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:18 pm

Amerandski wrote:So, why are you an Atheist? What caused you to discover "God" doesn't exist. Mine was getting diagnosed with MS.

I was always an atheist.

by **Giovenith** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:19 pm

I was gently presented with logical arguments as to just why the presence of gods in the way we are told about in say, the Bible, is extremely unlikely, and arguably does more harm than good.

by **San Leggera** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:20 pm

To discourage people from realising that I'm Zeus.

by **Potlimitomaha** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:21 pm

How any human can be an Atheist is beyond me. It's human nature to believe in some deity.

by **Genivaria** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:21 pm

Would ya'll say that there's a difference in how Atheists who are former atheists, and Atheists who were never theists, would you say there's a difference in how they view religion in general?
Like I was raised in a religious setting and I absolutely despise religion. Is that normal for former theists?

by **Silent Majority** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:22 pm

Potlimitomaha wrote:How any human can be an Atheist is beyond me. It's human nature to believe in some deity.

Source?

by **Divair** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:22 pm

Potlimitomaha wrote:How any human can be an Atheist is beyond me.

Very easily.

Potlimitomaha wrote:It's human nature to believe in some deity.

I'm a human, so obviously not.

by **Xathranaar** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:22 pm

The fact that we live in a deterministic universe caused me to become an atheist.

This is a joke, obviously.

by **The BlAAtschApen** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:22 pm

I was born this way.

by **Divair** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:23 pm

Genivaria wrote:Would ya'll say that there's a difference in how Atheists who are former atheists, and Atheists who were never theists, would you say there's a difference in how they view religion in general?
Like I was raised in a religious setting and I absolutely despise religion. Is that normal for former theists?

I don't think there is any difference, honestly. Maybe a slightly stronger dislike for religion if your family was really religious, but that's it, I imagine.

by **Khadgar** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:23 pm

Potlimitomaha wrote:How any human can be an Atheist is beyond me. It's human nature to believe in some deity.

Oh yes, people believe in foolish things, like gods, end of the world predictions. Of course logic and rationality causes people to recognize when they're believing stupid shit and correct themselves.

by **Genivaria** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:25 pm

Potlimitomaha wrote:How any human can be an Atheist is beyond me. It's human nature to believe in some deity.

1. You need a source on that.
2. I have a source that says the opposite is true.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/ ... -904120305

by **Dyakovo** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:25 pm

Potlimitomaha wrote:How any human can be an Atheist is beyond me.¹ It's human nature to believe in some deity. ²

1: Quite easily.
2: Bullshit.

by **Olivaero** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:26 pm

I *think* I'm currently an Atheistic christian the change has come upon me slowly coming to ahead about a couple of days ago... What Christ says still makes a lot of sense to me and I think he was a very wise teacher for his time... But Rationalism recently demonstrated to me that I don't actually Believe in God... I Believe in Belief. So... I don't know what I am Now but there is certainly an Atheist element to it.

by **Genivaria** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:26 pm

I would like to announce that this post right here is my official 20,000th post!

Postmaster of the Fleet! Yeah baby!

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