what made you turn away from christianity/theism/religion?

Many reasons which stem primarily from peoples' affiliations to religions and secondarily because I don't agree with any religious viewpoints.

I was confirmed Catholic at 16 and a few years later I just stopped caring about religion. I just don't agree with it.

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I'm not really Athiest, but I'm not really religious either. I guess because I stopped going to church, and then years later I questioned if God was real because I didn't see much proof.

Nibroc420

No evidence, as far as I'm concerned the Bible may as well be a super long childrens book with big fancy words.

Nothing. Just like everything in this world. Religion has fllaws. Real or not I've seen the good religion can bring. I have no problem with living in a lie. It brings people peace.MgamerBD

Religion has caused countless wars, deaths and disputes; then there's the dark ages that literary stopped advancement of the human race for 400 years.

But don't get me wrong though, it's not the religion themselves that causes problems, it's people's unability to "live and let live" Just saying it has done more harm than good overall.

I refuse to believe in an omicient god because that would make me powerless to determine my future and if I didn't believe that I was in control I would have no reason to continue living.

I think I turned 10. That's what did it.

love how title assumes we have turned away

The fact they kept preaching against what others believed.

I believe in Christ but not the current system.

[QUOTE="MgamerBD"]Nothing. Just like everything in this world. Religion has fllaws. Real or not I've seen the good religion can bring. I have no problem with living in a lie. It brings people peace.Blue-Sky

Religion has caused countless wars, deaths and disputes; then there's the dark ages that literary stopped advancement of the human race for 400 years.

But don't get me wrong though, it's not the religion themselves that causes problems, it's people's unability to "live and let live" Just saying it has done more harm than good overall.

Why do people use this argument? It has been proen many times that many of the wars fought was not because of religion. But other gains such as land, politics, amd resources. Also when the hell did religion put us in the dark ages? Examples? Proof?. I'm sure even though we had religion many scientific discoveries was still being made...

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

[QUOTE="MgamerBD"]Nothing. Just like everything in this world. Religion has fllaws. Real or not I've seen the good religion can bring. I have no problem with living in a lie. It brings people peace.MgamerBD

Religion has caused countless wars, deaths and disputes; then there's the dark ages that literary stopped advancement of the human race for 400 years.

But don't get me wrong though, it's not the religion themselves that causes problems, it's people's unability to "live and let live" Just saying it has done more harm than good overall.

Why do people use this argument? It has been proen many times that many of the wars fought was not because of religion. But other gains such as land, politics, amd resources. Also when the hell did religion put us in the dark ages? Examples? Proof?. I'm sure even though we had religion many scientific discoveries was still being made...

The same thing that made me turn away from Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy - I grew up and started thinking logically.

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

[QUOTE="MgamerBD"]Nothing. Just like everything in this world. Religion has fllaws. Real or not I've seen the good religion can bring. I have no problem with living in a lie. It brings people peace.MgamerBD

Religion has caused countless wars, deaths and disputes; then there's the dark ages that literary stopped advancement of the human race for 400 years.

But don't get me wrong though, it's not the religion themselves that causes problems, it's people's unability to "live and let live" Just saying it has done more harm than good overall.

Why do people use this argument? It has been proen many times that many of the wars fought was not because of religion. But other gains such as land, politics, amd resources. Also when the hell did religion put us in the dark ages? Examples? Proof?. I'm sure even though we had religion many scientific discoveries was still being made...

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

[QUOTE="MgamerBD"]Nothing. Just like everything in this world. Religion has fllaws. Real or not I've seen the good religion can bring. I have no problem with living in a lie. It brings people peace.MgamerBD

Religion has caused countless wars, deaths and disputes; then there's the dark ages that literary stopped advancement of the human race for 400 years.

But don't get me wrong though, it's not the religion themselves that causes problems, it's people's unability to "live and let live" Just saying it has done more harm than good overall.

Why do people use this argument? It has been proen many times that many of the wars fought was not because of religion. But other gains such as land, politics, amd resources. Also when the hell did religion put us in the dark ages? Examples? Proof?. I'm sure even though we had religion many scientific discoveries was still being made...

[QUOTE="MgamerBD"]

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Religion has caused countless wars, deaths and disputes; then there's the dark ages that literary stopped advancement of the human race for 400 years.

But don't get me wrong though, it's not the religion themselves that causes problems, it's people's unability to "live and let live" Just saying it has done more harm than good overall.

Why do people use this argument? It has been proen many times that many of the wars fought was not because of religion. But other gains such as land, politics, amd resources. Also when the hell did religion put us in the dark ages? Examples? Proof?. I'm sure even though we had religion many scientific discoveries was still being made...

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Religion has caused countless wars, deaths and disputes; then there's the dark ages that literary stopped advancement of the human race for 400 years.

But don't get me wrong though, it's not the religion themselves that causes problems, it's people's unability to "live and let live" Just saying it has done more harm than good overall.

Why do people use this argument? It has been proen many times that many of the wars fought was not because of religion. But other gains such as land, politics, amd resources. Also when the hell did religion put us in the dark ages? Examples? Proof?. I'm sure even though we had religion many scientific discoveries was still being made...

[QUOTE="MgamerBD"]

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Religion has caused countless wars, deaths and disputes; then there's the dark ages that literary stopped advancement of the human race for 400 years.

But don't get me wrong though, it's not the religion themselves that causes problems, it's people's unability to "live and let live" Just saying it has done more harm than good overall.

wis3boi

Why do people use this argument? It has been proen many times that many of the wars fought was not because of religion. But other gains such as land, politics, amd resources. Also when the hell did religion put us in the dark ages? Examples? Proof?. I'm sure even though we had religion many scientific discoveries was still being made...

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Religion has caused countless wars, deaths and disputes; then there's the dark ages that literary stopped advancement of the human race for 400 years.

But don't get me wrong though, it's not the religion themselves that causes problems, it's people's unability to "live and let live" Just saying it has done more harm than good overall.

Why do people use this argument? It has been proen many times that many of the wars fought was not because of religion. But other gains such as land, politics, amd resources. Also when the hell did religion put us in the dark ages? Examples? Proof?. I'm sure even though we had religion many scientific discoveries was still being made...

hypocrisy , misuse, abuse, and the fact that most of it is false weezyfb

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"][QUOTE="MgamerBD"]

Why do people use this argument? It has been proen many times that many of the wars fought was not because of religion. But other gains such as land, politics, amd resources. Also when the hell did religion put us in the dark ages? Examples? Proof?. I'm sure even though we had religion many scientific discoveries was still being made...

MgamerBD

More people have died due to the Atheistic communistic regimes in China and Russia then in all the Crusades and the modern battles in Jerusalem combined. And let's not even start about the Holocaust. You Atheists are really good about killing people. :Pmariostar0001

Um, none of the atrocities committed by those regimes were in the name of Atheism.

[QUOTE="mariostar0001"]More people have died due to the Atheistic communistic regimes in China and Russia then in all the Crusades and the modern battles in Jerusalem combined. And let's not even start about the Holocaust. You Atheists are really good about killing people. :Praynimrod

Um, none of the atrocities committed by those regimes were in the name of Atheism.

[QUOTE="mariostar0001"][QUOTE="Nibroc420"][QUOTE="mariostar0001"][QUOTE="Nibroc420"] Yeah... Christian sites enjoy bashing agnostics or atheists. How about you find a legitimate source to back up your claim?Nibroc420

Ok, Ive seen Atheists bashing Religious people alo, but I've very rarley heard of religious people bashing atheists

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"][QUOTE="mariostar0001"] Actually, Christian sites usually don't bash Atheists and the like, they are more likely just to talk about their own religion. And when they do "bash" them, they back it up. But I can find a secular source if you like. Or better yet, you can. Information age and all that. :PFundai

Ok, Ive seen Atheists bashing Religious people alo, but I've very rarley heard of religious people bashing atheists

Mostly my highly uninformed ideas regarding religious belief. Though, a lot of those ideas have been given to me by religious communities who, after many years of personal study of religion, I find have completley lost the thing that their religious founders discovered about our human nature, and attempted to explain to their followers. A book I am reading right now ("A History of God" by Karen Armstrong) is incredibly enlightening to this fact. Most modern Christians have absolutely no clue where their religion actually developed from. They conceive of "God" as an actual being, not of the mysterious "other" that defies rational and conceptual thought. Even the term "God" is idolatrous in that it doesn't create "apatheia" or silence in contemplation of a transcendent "other." Honestly, this book is opening many new doors of both inquiry and questions for me. I currently ascribe to a non-denominational interpretation of Buddhism... but reading about early Christianity and its ideas on the nature of "God" have me equating an experience of this "God" with the experience of nirvana in Buddhism. A state of mind where the concerns over the world disappear, and one becomes a living paradox, content to flow unresisting with the course of events as they unfold, holding no concept or prejudice in favour or against what happens. Which means that there is far more to my journey than I could have anticipated a week ago.foxhound_fox

Interesting points there. Have you read any of Bart Ehrman's books?

[QUOTE="Fundai"]

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"] Or even better, you can provide proof towards your claims.Nibroc420

Ok, Ive seen Atheists bashing Religious people alo, but I've very rarley heard of religious people bashing atheists

I'm not so big on the whole having to believe in God to be saved thing...

I believe that if you live a good life, your not going to hell, because you will have never have broken that conection that you soul has with God regardless of wether or not you knew it.

I also don't see us forcing people to our beliefs all the time, like most Atheists do...

I don't see us calling people Uneducated, stupid or blinded because of their beliefs

Also I've met atheists whop enjopy bringing the subject up so they can point out to the world " Hey, this guys has a religion."

[QUOTE="MgamerBD"][QUOTE="Nibroc420"] Are you being serious?

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[QUOTE="MgamerBD"] *looks around* Yes...I did ask for proof...MgamerBD