Do you remember the day when you dropped religion?
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Question by : Do you remember the day when you dropped religion?
I remember… it was like a big steel ball being thrown at my chest. I could hardly breath, I was dizzy and confused. It was hard. How it started was, doubting evolution making up absurd explanations for findings and such. Then learning about evolution and actually accepting it. I read more into the adam and eve story and thought to myself how in the world this could possibly be metaphorical. Eventually it all boiled down to the religious climax of my life. I asked, if there are biblical contradictions in the bible, please tell me now.
So what is the story of your enlightenment?
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13 Responses to Do you remember the day when you dropped religion?
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Yep. It made a plop, then I flushed 😉
Center
January 10, 2013 at 11:24 pm
Nope, but I remember the four horrible years of a heavily Christian high school.
Atlas Otus
January 11, 2013 at 12:12 am
No, but I remember dropping Christianity and moving on to religions that didn’t have any conflicts with evolutionary biology.
Geezah
January 11, 2013 at 12:57 am
My parents told me about religion ofc, one of my best friend’s told me about atheism. With a little thought, I deemed religion, ridiculous. Bam, atheist. Didn’t feel like anything, actually i wasn’t very religious to begin with. It was more of a, meh, moment.
Joe B
January 11, 2013 at 1:56 am
I was raised in a catholic primary school and attended a catholic boys high school. There was no single moment I realised I didnt believe anything I was being taught, it was more of a gradual change than one single defining moment
deploy pants here
January 11, 2013 at 2:11 am
It was not a Eureka moment, more a gradual unveiling for me. To be honest I am still a bit embarrassed about how long it took me to ‘not see the light’.
But there we go, ‘them’s the breaks’ I guess.
Jonhenry
January 11, 2013 at 3:07 am
Yes I do
Dutchgirl
January 11, 2013 at 3:27 am
Yes. Even Jesus hated religion. The most religious in His day He called children of the devil. If the most religious in His day were children of the devil, what does that make us?
Josh3
January 11, 2013 at 3:54 am
I wouldn’t say anything happened in one big moment. I’m theist, but growing up through observations I’ve decided that I feel some of my religion’s beliefs are wrong. I still practice my religion, because there are many things which I do believe, but I’m not ashamed to reject my Church’s view on something if I find it to be incorrect. I think almost every religion has some things right, but some wrong as well. Traditional Christianity is flawed and close-minded in a number of areas. I suppose I could be called a Non-traditional Christian…
Squire Kimara
January 11, 2013 at 4:18 am
No. My religious beliefs just slipped away over time, like letting sand run through your fingers. I do remember the day I decided that there very likely wasn’t a god, and that I didn’t believe in a god. I mean, not just as a muse or a possibility, but being as close to a certainty as one could be with such an issue. I felt a little dizzy for a moment, then it passed. Mostly I remember feeling good that I was responsible for myself entirely – I deserve all the blame for my faults and all the praise for my accomplishments. A nice feeling, even if it’s a little scary. Like leaving home for the first time.
Pull My Finger
January 11, 2013 at 4:54 am
I was 10 years old and at our town’s church. They were talking about how eating hoofed animals was a sin. I complained to my dad that if the meat is cooked and taken off of the hoofed animals then it should be sin. I should add in here evolution in my public school is taught 5th grade and up, and I was in 4rd grade. My dad then said to me “Shh! Listen if you want to spend all of eternity burning in hell and feeling indiscribable and consistant pain because you can’t control your temptations thats your business.”. I felt like crying, but then stopped relizing that statement was hilariously stupid. The next 7 years of my life I dedicated myself to reading any and all science books that disprove all statements from the bible the preaches creationism. In truth after my 3rd book I had more then enough facts to disprove theism but by then I began to love science, not just hate religion. Now, I’m a junior in high school who still LOVES science. I love all my science classes, and love how every fact presented in science is backed up with a logical explanation supported by a plethera of facts.
Mike Clarkson
January 11, 2013 at 5:51 am
i never really understood it to begin with, i believed in it but to me it read like bedtime story of fairy tale, i didn’t hate it and the adults said it was the truth so i believed. i lost my faith at an early age though, when i was about 9 i guess. I had been drug to the church by my great grandfather because he objected to me never going, i didn’t mind cause i was still young enough to go to sunday school, i could never turn down milk and cookies, and the woman in charge was reading from the bible and i asked how all the people got made since i did not really remember, i knew of adam and eve but it never made much sense to me that two people could make that many kids, i was 9 but i did know about the birds and the bees, and the lady told me that they were the children of adam and eve. this did not sit right with me so i raised my hand again, i asked how adam and eve had so many kids and why they had lived so long. she responded that they weren’t the actual kids they were great great great grand kids. I accepted the answer for then but continued to think about it and on the ride home i asked my great grandpa about how there were so many people since there were only two to start with and that god had to have created more because if he didn’t then it would have been brothers and sisters having kids and that was gross. he laughed at me and said he didn’t have an answer since he didn’t know either. and that’s when i lost it. i never told him because i had a great deal of respect for him but if he didn’t know then what happened then who did? how could you believe in something that you didn’t understand? i spent until about age 14 trying to find a way to get back my faith because the fact i didn’t have it made me feel different from the rest of my family and friends. I gave up because no matter who i asked or what i read everything regarding religion had holes in it to me that nobody seemed to be able to answer. then i started to learn about genetics and biology, evolution and chemistry, and everything started snapping together any time i had a question science had an answer or at least 3 different possibilities for me to choose from and that’s when i completely threw away my hope of getting my faith back since science was giving me a new type of faith that wasn’t failing and constantly grew stronger. I am now an agnostic i do not believe in god or gods but i do not completely reject that they may exist in one fashion or another, i personally prefer the alien theory that they used our planet for some sort of stopping point or science station and helped us out a little.
ziosuna
January 11, 2013 at 6:15 am
Yes. I do..When I felt like God’s spirit was not there.. I wasn’t leaving God.. nor my believe in his word.. But the dogma and layering of laws…Christ , freed us from the law.. And command that those that worship his father were to follow in his footsteps and show love for their fellow man… The whole law was covered by that command..and Churches add to ..and many go beyond what is written in the bible to keep people going to Church Drawing people to them… yet ..in reality they are keeping people from drawing closer to God.. Faith in God..does not need religion..Churches..
fuzzykitty
January 11, 2013 at 6:49 am