How did you become an Atheist?

I have no story. That's the wonderful thing... I'm not atheist! I'm not dumb enough for that! Peace. ;)

While I too disbelieve in most religious doctrine, I am actually not an atheist, but a monotheist. I believe there is a Creator, but I don't claim to know anything about form, gender, persona, name, etc. I believe in God because of scientific evidence (especially in cellular biology), and because of my experiences since becoming a believer. Cheers!

Hi there, I am a christian and strongly belive in my faith.I would just like to let you know there are many books out there that give stron factual evidence behind Jesus.I don't want to offend you nor am I trying to change who you are I just want you to know that there is scientific proof. One of these books is A Case For Christ by Lee Strobel. He set out writing this book to dissprove Christ and has many things he brings to the table that are very interesting. I hope you have a fantastic day!

I am not an Atheist but I am a Baha'i so I do not believe in God in the way most people do. I do not believe God is a big, powerful person who sits in the sky because, as a scientist, this does not make sense to me. I look at the sky every day and no one is there. Maybe I am blind but anyway that wasn't working so I went on a search and decided that God didn't really exist for awhile. Then I found the Baha'i Faith and was like wow this makes sense. This is my own understanding of the writings so it may or may not be correct, but I believe that God is actually a sort of life force or source of power. This makes sense with the physics I have studied because according to the laws of physics for energy to be sustained in a system (ex. the universe) an energy source must be present. It makes sense to me that God is that energy. Some say the sun is the source, but where did the sun get its energy? I believe there has to be a continuous source of energy which does not run out. Well, anyway, I have found that the Baha'i writings all agree with scientific findings or at least don't contridict them so that is my story.

Nobody ever forced anything on me when I was young. I icked up stuff about God and religions from my surroundings. I remember a time when I was always praying to God for wisdom and salvation. Eventually, when I read more and more about several religions, my respect about belief in God diminished. Almost every religion has a history of bloodshed and massacre prior to , or after its establishment. Even now people cast wars and terrorism in the name of religion. If there were a God, I believed that it was high time he sent a messenger to save humanity. The world is becoming more and more chaotic by the days , and the concept of God or religion cannot do a thing other than creating more barriers between people. In the end, I believe that it was the belief that man created religion as a tool to achieve power, and if God existed, he would just prevent the formation of the so called religions , that made me turn into an agnostic.

I live in a asian buddhist home (am asian), So my grandma, a very religious person, half forced me to be buddhist. I guess i half believed it at a point, but there's always a large part of me that's like "why are we praying to someone who we can't see or feel?" I gave in to that part.

My experiences with supposedly Christian people started me on my path. My house wasn't very religious (my dad is agnostic and my mom was more spiritual then religious). I did attend Catholic school for 13 years because it offered a better education then the public schools. That is where I got my religious education. By the time I was in 3rd grade I had started questioning stuff. It was when we were making our First Communion and when the other kids told me I was going to hell and was a bad person because my parents never had me baptized as a baby. I was like "huh? That's now what I came away with in our religion classes." They refused to play with me for weeks after that and I was like screw them and religion. Who needs people like that anyway. I still believed in some kind of god and in the Bible stories but I started questioning them (to myself) and realize most made no sense. By junior high I had decided that the Bible was more a work of fiction, like fables to guide people on a path. I believed creation might have happened but god's 6 days was millions of years. I never took anything in the Bible literally. By high school I had stopped believing organized religion had anything beneficial to offer. It is there to control the masses. I now realize, based on my beliefs back then, that I was deist. I believed in a higher power but wasn't sure any of the other stuff Christians believed was real (Jesus, heaven, hell, etc). I figured if there was a god he couldn't care less about us piddly little people. I kind of held that belief through college and the first few years of being a mother. It was in 2006, after the birth of my 4th child that I realized I just couldn't kid myself anymore. The whole concept of god just wasn't logical. The whole thing just makes absolutely no sense to me and I can't believe it took me 29 years to shake it all off and let myself believe what I wanted and not what I was told was right.

Hi Mythion, I am not an atheist, but have no problem with those who are. It's very true that no one can prove or disprove the existence of God, but I've always felt within me that my life did not begin with this body, nor will it end when it is of no more use to me. My biggest problem with religion is that they cannot respect each other and live together in peace. I think we should all keep an open mind, there is still much that we have to learn. If there is something after this life , I hope everyone is pleasantly surprised. Blessings.