Tomef
Well-Known Member
I appreciate that many people are atheist because they see no reason not to be. I'm interested in hearing from people who did have a belief, or were agnostic, and chose atheism for a specific reason.
Personally, I'm agnostic on whether or not there might be something that, if we encountered it, we would consider to be a kind of superior being something like what we'd call a deity. I mean, I suppose it is possible. I'm atheist as far as the chances of such a being matching up with the ideas of any of our human religions, though. I had a fairly brief dalliance with Christian faith, but the easily researchable, although time-consuming, fact of the fictional origins of the existence of gods, and the history of the creation of religious texts (based on earlier texts, earlier beliefs and so on) makes it very obvious that all of our religions were created by us. None of the divine revelation claims fit how the various religious books actually came to have the form they have now.
So, that's my main reason for rejecting the various ideas religions present about gods and salvation. I think religions have had some uses in a social sense, but that it's about time we left them behind. But that's for another thread. Please give your reasons for why you became an atheist if you have any that are specific.
Personally, I'm agnostic on whether or not there might be something that, if we encountered it, we would consider to be a kind of superior being something like what we'd call a deity. I mean, I suppose it is possible. I'm atheist as far as the chances of such a being matching up with the ideas of any of our human religions, though. I had a fairly brief dalliance with Christian faith, but the easily researchable, although time-consuming, fact of the fictional origins of the existence of gods, and the history of the creation of religious texts (based on earlier texts, earlier beliefs and so on) makes it very obvious that all of our religions were created by us. None of the divine revelation claims fit how the various religious books actually came to have the form they have now.
So, that's my main reason for rejecting the various ideas religions present about gods and salvation. I think religions have had some uses in a social sense, but that it's about time we left them behind. But that's for another thread. Please give your reasons for why you became an atheist if you have any that are specific.