I used to be Anglican, though my family never attended any religious services. I questioned religion my entire life, but it wasn't until I was 14 that I finally decided to abandon it.
I used to be atheist, but went back to being christian. Nothing born-again bullshit über-religious asshole about it, I just decided it kinda didn't hurt anything or anyone, and I needed a lil' faith.
I was born and raised a Christian. I wasn't ultra Christian but I went to church once or twice a week and prayed every night. Then at some time when I was 10, I realized that I had never seen God and that some parts of the bible didn't make much sense, so I just stopped believing. Now I know you can't really prove either way absolutely, so I'm agnostic now.
I woke up and went to church for the first time...
I used to be christian, but my parents and family weren't very strict about it. If anything, they are happy that I use critical thinking even though they still somewhat believe in a deity. Hell, my parents are even bordering on agnostic sometimes.
I'm an atheist and open about my beliefs, but I still regularly attend service with my Christian family since the pastor down to all the regular members are chill as fuck.
Non-denominational churches in general are pretty cool.
I was baptised as Catholic at birth. Probably my mother's doing.
After we moved to Alabama from Connecticut, I think my mother took issue with the churches down here and just stopped taking us. My father always was atheist I think.
Catholic then atheist 4 years ago.
Born an atheist, became Christian at a young age, was agnostic in middle school and am now atheist.
The local priest was actually the one who made me realise that I don't beleive in God. My primary school was run by a few nuns and the church was right across the street. Father Joe, being a pretty bitchin' dude, would come around for our religion classes and tell us about his travels around the world. He always told about how important science and history was and hated when people were forced to believe something.
I went to secondary school as an atheist, the school was run by the Marist brothers. We had religion class once a week and learned a lot about world religions and almost nothing about Christianity/Catholicism. None of the Brothers were religious teachers, they all tought science and history. One of the Brothers was a biology teacher and he called creationism the biggest load of shit he'd ever heard.
Baptized and Catholic since birth, became agnostic around the beginning of middle school.
I was sort of forced to believe in it, but I only went along with it to stay out of trouble and never actually believed any of it. That and I didn't want to believe in something I knew didn't exist.
I only really believe in what I know exists, and what is bound to happen.
[QUOTE=MegaErathia;36653696]No, I've been satanist/atheist since birth.[/QUOTE]
damn youre hardcore
I was raised able to decide for myself and hated prayer from a very young age so I'd say I grew up atheist.
god created me as an atheist
Why is 'Christian' the only option? My mother was Roman Catholic, and she gave me the choice to believe what I wanted (my father and her split up so he wasn't really an impacting force on my choice). I started with the thought that there was a God, and gradually changed to atheism as I grew up.
I wasn't so much of an atheist, I just never cared whether there is a God or not because I don't think it matters.
[QUOTE=The mouse;36655417]I wasn't so much of an atheist, I just never cared whether there is a God or not because I don't think it matters.[/QUOTE]
this I cannot agree with.
My opinion is this: either Christianity is true, or Islam is true, or Judaism is true, or some tribal religion somewhere is true, or none of them is true.
If some religion is true then it is in my best interest to get on my knees and worship the god of whatever religion that is, so that I can avoid going to whatever Hell analogue that religion has.
That being said, I doubt any of it is true.
i'm literally buddha irl so
[QUOTE=Kinglah Crab;36655501]i'm literally buddha irl so[/QUOTE]
um -.-'
I had no one forcing me to choose which religion to follow, all my parents would say when I would ask is that it's my decision and to look into it myself. I eventually decided that I did not believe in any deities, and that there is no solid proof to back up any of it. I told my parents that I don't believe in any of these religions I had heard about and that all these ideas were asinine. They congratulated me on coming to my own conclusion, and then began to tell me that they feel the same way.
Baptized Lutheran, Atheist since I was 9
Baptized christian, I became athiest a few years ago after being agnostic since middle-school.
I have some Buddhist tendencies though.
I was born into a protestant family.
However, my family (extended, not just immediate), are very self-contained. They all believe in God and Jesus and all that Jazz, but they keep it to themselves. They don't go to Church, they don't preach to others, and they don't discuss religion with other people, even among themselves.
To my family, God is personal. Every person has their own link to God - or not if they choose to not hold one - and everyone's link to God belongs to them and only them.
That being said, I never believed in a God growing up, because my parents never pushed it, like I said.
So while I was born into a Christian family, I was never a Christian.
Yea for the first 16 years of my life then I realised it was all bullshit
I was Muslim but now I'm Agnostic.
i'm jewish like my mum and neither of us believe in god
that's actually a pretty old joke:
[quote]
Two Rabbis argued late into the night about the existence of God, and, using strong arguments from the scriptures, ended up indisputably disproving His existence. The next day, one Rabbi was surprised to see the other walking into the Shul for morning services.
"I thought we had agreed there was no God," he said.
"Yes, what does that have to do with it?" replied the other.[/quote]
My parents aren't actively Christian (I'm not even sure if they are Christian, I do believe that they are at least theists but they are non-practicing), however I do believe they might still be Christian regardless because of books about Jesus and shit they give to my younger half-brother (who is six). I believe they do it though because those books probably have good lessons in them, rather than just indoctrination shit.
My first school (public) did have quite a lot of Christian teachings, as well as the private school I attended after that, but now I go to a public school again these last few years of school where the closest thing to mandatory religious teaching is a mandatory class in Year 7 only. I've never really considered myself Christian, I didn't even know what to believe in. These past few years though I've aligned myself as agnostic, seeing as that is the most consistent with my beliefs. I find it funny that I don't get antagonised by theists because I'm considered to have an open mind, but Atheists don't seem to like the agnostic stance and label me as a "fence sitter". My situation is alot different to some stories people here tell of where they live (such as in the United States), as the majority of people in my year at school (in Australia) are atheist, and only a few are theists (then there are a small amount of agnostics).
I was not Christian to begin with mainly because, even though everyone else around me was, I didn't understand what that meant. So, really, how can you be something if you don't know what that means? I really understood more about it and thought it was silly.
Seriously, think of a christian telling a child about God and he replying "That's silly." I had a pretty good grasp on reality back then, and I probably just dismissed it as a fairy tale. But as I learned of it being a serious thing, I still thought it was bull. Been the same way since. Although I've learned pretty well to not be judgmental about others' choices and stuff.
i just became skeptical when i realized how stupid the responses to some of the questions i asked were at my church/school.
"god doesn't need a creator because he's different to humans and our puny minds can't comprehend his magnificence"
"you've never seen god because he exists outside the universe"
"god doesn't answer prayers 'cause he's a very busy man, he only answers when you [i]~REALLY NEED HIM TO~[/i]"
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