Any atheists that weren't ALWAYS atheist?

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Eastside Get The Money said:
I call myself exploring religions right now.

I was raised Christian and my mom is straight out of a Medea movie with her faith. As an adult I just started to realize that basically all religions are damn near the same and I just can't truly believe with my adult mind in the concept of religion (i.e. God needed an enemy so he let the devil do his thing :heh:)

But as of lately I've been researching other religions (Buddhism, Islam among others) to see if I relate to another one. I've been saying forever it is impossible to establish faith in one religion if you haven't checked out the other ones.

Back to OP's topic, as an adult I just grew up and saw the holes of religion. Religion is truly meant to either control people, promote morality, or to ease the pain and uncertainty of death. As I myself am not very religious anymore, if religion and faith gives people hope who am I to tell them it's wrong :manny:
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Most of my beliefs are of an eastern vein I've found. I have a lot of Buddhist/Hindu beliefs.... But I can't really prescribe to just one set, so I just kinda make it up to my own. My pantheist beliefs, which guide me, are more Hindu-rooted though.
 
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I was raised Catholic, went to Catholic school & CCD, did my Confirmation & all of that
 
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I was raised JW, but I left for many reasons.

I consider myself a spiritual person, but I don't subscribe to any religions at all. In fact, I despise religion. I have an aunt who is a Baptist who is always preaching to me and pushing so hard for me to become a christian but I always tell her we'll just have to agree to disagree, I'm not going to be emotionally blackmailed or coerced into anything if it doesn't resonate with me.

Although I'm not an atheist, you can still be an outcast and even feel left out at times because most black people where I am are christian or muslim. Anything else, it seems, is a no no. Why some people just can't accept the fact that there other people who simply don't subscribe to their beliefs or way of life and keep it moving is beyond me.
 
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Tom said:
Born and raised a Cristian literalist (someone who believed everything in the bible was fact and the word of God)

However no inquiring mind can remain religious for too long. Eventually you will hit that wall and have to break through it in order to obtain answers to the questions religion just didn't have (or had and lied about)


The only people who remain christian literalist throughout their entire lifetime are the intellectually handicapped.




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Lol. For one, you aren't seriously Tom (the creator of and everyone's first and permanent friend on MySpace), are you?

Secondly, I don't know if I'd go as far as to say they're intellectually handicapped. More so inhibited. Blatant, yet blind belief (or disbelief) seems to keep a person's mind closed to discovery, but saying they're handicapped is pretty insensitive.

I do agree that it is easy to believe, or rather think you believe, in something when you're young, but you will grow up and either learn for yourself that there is nothing supporting this belief or disbelief, or stick to what you were raised to know as "true".

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Mister_DoItNice said:
I wasn't aware of the term agnostic atheist. I'll have to look into it. The crazy thing is my family still doesn't know I don't believe anymore. Whenever I go home for the holidays there's always a million questions about why I don't want to go to service with them. Fortunately being 26, they can't really make me anyway.
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Ahh. Well, welcome to team logical skepticism/critical thinking/agnostic atheism.

And it can be hard to straight up tell your family that you're over it, but it's rather relieving. My Greek family was stunned by my assertions, and my Black family didn't really care at all (since my Black grandmother is atheist herself, and is the head of the family, mentally). It was fairly easy. Almost as easy as coming out of the closet... Well, maybe not THAT easy... but you catch my drift.

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Eastside Get The Money said:
I call myself exploring religions right now.

I was raised Christian and my mom is straight out of a Medea movie with her faith. As an adult I just started to realize that basically all religions are damn near the same and I just can't truly believe with my adult mind in the concept of religion (i.e. God needed an enemy so he let the devil do his thing :heh:)

But as of lately I've been researching other religions (Buddhism, Islam among others) to see if I relate to another one. I've been saying forever it is impossible to establish faith in one religion if you haven't checked out the other ones.

Back to OP's topic, as an adult I just grew up and saw the holes of religion. Religion is truly meant to either control people, promote morality, or to ease the pain and uncertainty of death. As I myself am not very religious anymore, if religion and faith gives people hope who am I to tell them it's wrong :manny:
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Yeah, the thing is, though... Religion merely reinforces discrimination (of all kinds, on many levels). So you probably wouldn't be wrong for telling them it's immoral to discriminate against someone with no rational reason. :smile:

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I was raised christian and was heavily into in my late teens and early 20s. I now consider myself agnostic. I do believe in a higher power, I just don't believe in a country club like religion that is guided by a god that is exclusive of others for various reasons. :manny:

I have studied all religions and to me they are pretty much all the same. Jesus Christ offers something a little different, but to me it's all the same ish... different culture.. different location.
 
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