Why Something has to Happen?

I used my brain...was that easy!

Nothing definitive....just eased into it...

I've always been agnostic, questioning religion but working in a church for eight years really opened my eyes to the business side of religion. I saw people misuse funds in a very selfish manner. It really made me wonder why I gave money tithe church. These people didn't live up to their own teachings. They were so judgemental and pious . Such egos.this really made me leave the church, even though it was my home. Once I left, I realized all religions are the same. Institutions of control. I do not wish to be controlled. It's all a fairy tale. I live for this life.

Got borned

Facts

Living in utah and watching the hypocrisy.

Welcome to the asylum. Enjoy your stay.

Nothing "happened". I was born an atheist, just like everyone else is.
Indoctrination simply didn't take with me.
I always knew I was being lied to.

While in the 2nd grade, I was pushed into going to Vacation Bible School in the summer. I was sitting at a table with a bunch of kids, coloring pictures of Jezus doing miracles or something. The Chairman of the Board of Deacons, a fat old guy, came in and walked around the room inspecting our work. He stopped behind the cute little girl sitting beside me, and he complimented her work while sliding his hand into her panties. Even at the age of 6, I knew there was something wrong with that.

I was sent to church every Sunday as a child (so parents could have a few hours 'alone'. When I was 7 or 8 the vicar put out the usual plea for more money and I realised he was driving a big rover car, while most people walked, bicycled or caught a bus - that was when I started questioning morality of the church. Which led me to question war, poverty and so much more.

I was in vacation bible school (VBS), getting glared at for asking questions. It wasn't because I was being stupid, it was because they didn't know the answers. After my third worthless VBS diploma, I realized might as well skip church. It was all a dog and pony show.

Anyone ever put a VBS diploma on the CV? If you don't snore loudly, they'll give you a VBS. Almost like my high school diploma which at least had better looking female classmates.

I grew up and got the courage to be honest. Same way I grew out of believing in Santa. It takes less courage, though, to admit you no longer believe in Santa.

Well, nothing happened. After a while of hearing the idiots promising that prayers would work and god would reveal himself etc, it became obvious that they were full of shit.

Also, I grew up around a few Muslims and Jews so it quickly dawned on me that all these religions were claiming absolute truth right in the face of each other, which would only be possible in a world where the term "god" has no other meaning than "my invisible best friend".

My friend had told me about how the story of Hercules mirrors the story of Jesus in many ways, yet predates it by 500 years. That got the ball rolling. Once that veil was lifted, I started reading and researching what other stories were lifted. I also went through and actually read the entire old testament..not just the Sunday school stories.

It's hard to pinpoint an exact time where I was like "oh shit i'm an atheist wheres my infant I need breakfast also hail satan"

But I always have the same thought when I think about becoming an atheist.

hits joint

So, you know like ... that part in Revelation, where like, there's fuckin' ... a dragon. Then there's this two sentence battle between the angels and the dragon and some other angels. Except the dragon has seven heads and is actually fuckin' Satan haha what a twist God. Anyway, in the middle of all this there's a woman who has like a baby and fuck if I know what happened to the baby but she goes out to the woods to live for exactly 1,260 days for some reason. I don't know why the g-o-single-d picked that number but it appears too specific not to be significant.

So devildragon with 10 horns loses and decides he can't win and he's like "fuck this man I'm gonna kill that bitch" Well I'm paraphrasing.

Anyway, god's like "nah you really ain't" and all of a sudden the woman has great eagle wings so she can fly to the forest for her 1,260 days. But after this, for some reason, even though this chick could clearly fly at this point. Satanserpentdragon unleashes a goddamn river from his mouth right. Like, literally enough water to be a river it's very descriptive. Anyway, he seems to think this is a good plan. And apparently, even though this chick can fly god felt the need to intervene in that because the earth opens up and swallows all that water like this weird porn video I saw once but that's not important.

So the dragon got pissed and declared war on the woman and all her offspring, who are apparently the ones who are keeping god's commands i don't know.

And it only gets crazier from there.

Point is, if I want shitty fantasy novels I can read George R.R. Martin.

I was raised in Christian school and actually read the Bible, devoted myself to studying and understanding it and listened intently for god to speak to me and all I ever got was the ringing silence of a head that’s trying too hard. Then I continued learning the taboo knowledge of how and why the Bible was written, who revised n decided what made it in etc. I explored eastern religious cosmology, learned a lot about myself through psychedelics, yoga, and music, and discovered a lot of destructive thought patterns implanted at an early age by religious teachers.

It was only when I realized that god didn’t cast us from paradise, that we punish ourselves and each other by teaching this abusive shit and accepting shame for being human, that I finally experienced what the Bible calls “the peace that passeth understanding.” It wasn’t anything that happened to me to turn me atheist; I hadn’t been allowed to be me before, and it just so happens “me” is an atheist.

Reaching the age of reason.

Freshman year in college, philosophy 101, a book on the existence of god

No specific incident. As my ability to employ critical thinking increased, my ability to believe in myths decreased.

Religion!

Logic slowly took over the intellectual hoops I saw to justify wishful thinking (There's an omniscient being who knows all and cares about all of us... Except some people who suffer through horrific events as part of some grand plan) :/

The more I read about religions the less any of it made sense.

Well, a lot of bad stuff has happened to me. I used to pray for good things and happiness and NOT ONE prayer was ever answered. When my girlfriend committed suicide no god came down to comfort me, and neither did my asshole family full of believers. There's no god, angels, devil, demons, etc. There is this planet circling that sun and our asses are just along for the ride.

I was spared religious indoctrination by parents who kept their beliefs, such as they might have been, to themselves. We had to go to church on Sundays but I now think that was so my parents could have time without the 3 girls around. Mon always just dropped us off at the door . It never made sense and I quit going at around age 11 or 12.

No one thing turned me. The Whlole Religious Schtick defies Logic.