I think deconversion happens faster now than it did many years ago. There is much more access to information and alternate views outside a household or community. Young people also see the consequences of religious dogma, the violence that can ensue and the harmful, extreme divisiveness it can create in government (therefore among people).

Years ago these were things that seemed to happen in far away lands, to the extent that they're happening at home, or close to home now.

Religious indoctrination runs deep, if it starts in childhood. It's harder to shake the words and images related to religion and the threat of the "afterlife." Of course one can only guess without a statistical poll... But I would say that atheism may reflect a lower age now compared to 20 years ago.

We are all born atheist. I figured out religious was BS when I was about 8 as the teachings did not reflect observable reality.

For me it was my mid teens. I spent years in the boys brigade as a kid. They did all that religion stuff and I was always a reader. So the more I read the Bible and learned about other religions at school, the sooner I noticed the lunacy of it all.

Whatever age they first see the Farting Preacher videos.

I would say 20 to 30.

Mine was gradual but probably finalized in my mid 30's so my children were raised without a religious background.

Hopefully early. As long as they see the light and redeem their delusional existence at some point.

I was about 8 when I gave up on religion

If I had to guess, I would say 30 - 40.

I am 70- I believe young are perhaps influenced by needing or not needing religion. As one ages, it often depends on travel both in your country or overseas to finally realize there are good and bad that call themselves religious. I don’t think it’s a function of age, but of exposure to varying opinions, varying cultures and historical study.

Officially, I was in my early thirties. I think I knew before then, but my mother's ugly painful death set it in stone.

I was in my mid thirties

I was 18. I'm 69 now. Absolutely no regrets. I do sometimes wonder how having that catholic "old boys" thing on your side may have been helpful,
in the business sense.

I don't know but would be curious to read a study on it.

I think it’s getting younger all the time... Tonight my 15 year old son asked me what I would do if he declared he was a flat earther? I told him I’d knock some sense in his head with a 6,000 year old stick! Luckily we were both kidding

I was over 40 when I embraced being atheist, but I hope the age is trending lower.

It might be helpful to make this into a poll, then we could see what the average age was for individuals on our site instead of just guessing.