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How did you become an atheist?

schneiderguy

schneiderguy

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When I was in second grade, it was supposed to be really cold one night and the forecast was for rain, so they said there was a chance of snow. In the Bay Area that's pretty rare for it to snow at sea level. I really wanted a snowday like I saw on TV so my mom suggested that I say a prayer and ask for it to snow to increase my chances of that happening.

I said my prayer before I went to sleep. I woke up in the morning and there was no snow at all, so I decided god was kind of an asshole since he didn't answer my prayer so I decided not to believe in him anymore.

There was a chance of it snowing last night too, but it didn't :| Still waiting for that snow day! :\
 
schneiderguy said:
When I was in second grade, it was supposed to be really cold one night and the forecast was for rain, so they said there was a chance of snow. In the Bay Area that's pretty rare for it to snow at sea level. I really wanted a snowday like I saw on TV so my mom suggested that I say a prayer and ask for it to snow to increase my chances of that happening.

I said my prayer before I went to sleep. I woke up in the morning and there was no snow at all, so I decided god was kind of an asshole since he didn't answer my prayer so I decided not to believe in him anymore.

There was a chance of it snowing last night too, but it didn't :| Still waiting for that snow day! :\
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I became an atheist just now because of that story.
 
You join an atheist cult. Basically, you get your genitalia pierced and someone spits down your throat. Pretty standard stuff really as doctrined by reknown atheists everywhere.
 
schneiderguy said:
When I was in second grade, it was supposed to be really cold one night and the forecast was for rain, so they said there was a chance of snow. In the Bay Area that's pretty rare for it to snow at sea level. I really wanted a snowday like I saw on TV so my mom suggested that I say a prayer and ask for it to snow to increase my chances of that happening.

I said my prayer before I went to sleep. I woke up in the morning and there was no snow at all, so I decided god was kind of an asshole since he didn't answer my prayer so I decided not to believe in him anymore.

There was a chance of it snowing last night too, but it didn't :| Still waiting for that snow day! :\
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He always answers prayers. But sometimes the answer is NO 😛
 
As I learned about other cultures and religions, I realized there was no objective means to decide which one was right. They all proclaimed that all the others were wrong, so at least most religions had to be wrong. Seemed like a crapshoot to pick the One True Religion.

Then I learned some physics and biology.
 
I think it was sometime during elementary school science class. The books were filled with all this detailed knowledge that ran counter to what they were telling us in sunday school. They also gave the method by which scientists had acquired all this detailed information. I had been told that the bible was the source of christian knowledge and should be taken as wholly true and without question. If everything between science and the bible had been in agreement, this wouldn't have been a problem. I had to choose which one I was going to believe. The choice between "Believe this because I say it's so" and "This is what we found and here is how you can check our work" is an easy one. The bible was wrong because it's authors had never really tried to find any real truth, but rather made grand proclamations about things they thought no one would ever know the truth about. Science came along and showed us that they just didn't set the bar high enough.
 
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I don't know when for sure, but sometime I just came to the realization that if the world is so fucked up and God is so perfect, then something here doesn't add up. Obviously God doesn't exist.
 
Wouldn't people be born atheists? The only way that changes is for someone to convince you that there's a deity out there that you have to worship. Which one depends on where you're born.
 
DrPizza said:
Wouldn't people be born atheists? The only way that changes is for someone to convince you that there's a deity out there that you have to worship. Which one depends on where you're born.
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Doesn't apply to the first person that thought of said deity.
 
I've always had my doubts but in 9th grade I read Homer -

Book was believed to be factual by all at the time it was written - the tall tales were obvious fabrications as everyone knows it was fantasy based and not reality. To me it paralleled many of the bibles own stories (water into wine, walking across water, Adam & Eve, Hell & Satan .............)

From that point on it was completely 100% over with me and no more dragging my ass to fantasy Church.
 
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