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At 1/17/07 07:02 PM, shohaib wrote: Im trying to research, on how people became atheists, so if you could answer these 3 questions, it would be most appreciated.

(answer only if youre an atheist)

1. What religion did you first believe in?

none

2. At what age did you tun to atheism?

above

3. Have you explored other religions?

no

done!
that was some v. hard questions!

At 1/17/07 07:02 PM, shohaib wrote:
1. What religion did you first believe in?

None

2. At what age did you tun to atheism?

The day I was born

3. Have you explored other religions?

No, never.

At 1/18/07 12:32 PM, JohnnyWang wrote: Also, Mick, love ya and all, but drop the asshat. You accuse atheist of being immature with likewise immature arguments. Instead of the lockerroom psychology, try to expand your views a bit.

Indeed. Such blatant trolling seems a little out of character. You'd be a fool to think atheists are only atheists because they're rebelling against their parents and I hope Mick isn't that ill-informed. Or discriminatory.

At 1/18/07 12:33 PM, shohaib wrote:

At 1/18/07 12:31 PM, TurtleJuice wrote: Question number 2 will always be 13 or 14 , seeing as they have to rebel against everything

yes, it seems to be around that age. a few people said 11!

Last post to this thread, but fuck the lot of you.

It's easy to dismiss any decision made in that age group by "rebellion". Uhm, that also happens to be the age when you're usually intrduced to history beyond the past few centuries, biology beyond cutting up frogs and physics beyond boiling water in a beaker.

And it's also around the time when you've been allready informed that creatures like the Jolly Red Roof Lurker (santa) and Sugar Poop Hopper (Easter bunny) don't exist.

I don't have a childhood faith, even though my family is sorta religious I never believed in their beliefs. When they gave me books about Jesus and so on I allways said that it was fairy tales. When I was at a Christian camp and they told us about what Jesus did for us I said that that can't be true, because he have never existed. I reacted to the logical flaws as I never believed in ghosts, magic or anything like that. I've never seen it in real life, only in movies and fairy tales, so already then I took the conclution (7-8 years) that God(s) didn't exist. (Before that time they never spoke about religion)

So I've been an Atheist from the start, which is actually a bit sad. Because I do in fact envy the religious, they all seem so happy.

At 1/17/07 09:10 PM, MickTheChampion wrote:

At 1/17/07 09:09 PM, WillPostForFood wrote:
Way to be a prick, not all of us are in it to piss off our parents. There are those who made a choice on their own to just be atheist.

O right, I'm sure at the age of 13 you came to a very mature decision through strong theological studies and a search within yourself.

no i agree with willpostforfood you are:
1. a prick
2. believe in god and cannot take that some other people dont!
also;
i agree again!
i just decided, although the rest of my family are atheist and i go to a c of e school i decided!
:D to willpostforfood
>:( to you!

At 1/18/07 12:29 PM, Nekrozoa wrote:

1. What religion did you first believe in?

None. Never indoctrinated at all, really. I can't actually remember getting taught RE in first school, although I'm sure we did and the priest came in and we sang Christian songs and all that shizzle.

Me dad's quite religious I suppose, but not rigirously so and he never taught me what to believe. Mam isn't, I don't think.

I can't actually remember having a concious though bout God either, or praying (except for the Lord's prayer in assemply). But I'm certain I did believe that there was a god of some sort.

2. At what age did you tun to atheism?

Meh, there was no one point in my life where I thought "Wait just a fucking minute there, this stuff can't be true", it was just gradual, to the point where I can't remember.

3. Have you explored other religions?

Not particularly, no.

At 1/18/07 12:36 PM, JohnnyWang wrote:
And it's also around the time when you've been allready informed that creatures like the Jolly Red Roof Lurker (santa) and Sugar Poop Hopper (Easter bunny) don't exist.

they dont?! :O

I WORSHIP ZEUS AND THE GODS OF MOUNT OLYMPUS.

At 1/18/07 12:36 PM, JohnnyWang wrote:

And it's also around the time when you've been allready informed that creatures like the Jolly Red Roof Lurker (santa) and Sugar Poop Hopper (Easter bunny) don't exist.

I noticed youre the 3rd person who has mentioned Santa in this thread

At 1/18/07 12:36 PM, JohnnyWang wrote: And it's also around the time when you've been allready informed that creatures like the Jolly Red Roof Lurker (santa) and Sugar Poop Hopper (Easter bunny) don't exist.

Yeah, do people think you need to know all the specifics of evolutionary biology, quantum physics, and the Big Bang, to dismiss ideas such as Heaven and prayer? Well, you don't. 11-14 is the age when you start thinking by yourself and dismissing ideas that you only had 'faith' in to begin with isn't some amazing rebellious action.

What is the point in religion? all it is is beliving in something that you cant even see! that is just mad wack .......wow....thats why i sit here every sunday instead of going to chruch and use newgrounds website cause it rocks hard!

At 1/18/07 12:36 PM, Earfetish wrote: Such blatant trolling seems a little out of character.

It isn't though! He's always banging on about how atheists are Linkin Park loving faggots out to annoy their parents...the git.

At 1/18/07 12:46 PM, Mr-Pope wrote:

At 1/18/07 12:36 PM, Earfetish wrote: Such blatant trolling seems a little out of character.

It isn't though! He's always banging on about how atheists are Linkin Park loving faggots out to annoy their parents...the git.

Yeah I know, but it's usually slightly more subtle or clever or less werewolf-bite-style retarded trolling. That's why I said 'blatant' trolling, and qualified it by saying it was only 'a little' out of character.

Whe Become a fireman, and put out the flames that rain on our parde?
Why Become a artist, and paint with the colors in your mind?
Why Become a magician, and spread smiles with the tricks you perform each day?
Why Become a explorer, and spread knowledge with the items you might find?

Because cuxyagaiboi

At 1/17/07 07:02 PM, shohaib wrote: 1. What religion did you first believe in?

Christianity

2. At what age did you tun to atheism?

15 years, although I drifted back in and out of beliving in religion since I was 13 years old.

3. Have you explored other religions?

I would like research further into other religions, but at present I have not.

At the monuent I do believe in a more powerful spirtual force, but I do not know what it is. I would like to develop this spirtual side further. I am probably not an atheist but an agnostic. IAlthough I am very opposed to religion I think it is used to control people and cause nothing but conflict.

At 1/17/07 07:02 PM, shohaib wrote: Im trying to research, on how people became atheists, so if you could answer these 3 questions, it would be most appreciated.

(answer only if youre an atheist)

1. What religion did you first believe in?

Christiantiy

2. At what age did you tun to atheism?

12

3. Have you explored other religions?

Explored as in? I've looked into other religions but not considered myself anything other than christianity

At 1/18/07 01:17 PM, MickTheChampion wrote: O here he goes again, "retarded trolling" - when was the last time you passed up the chance spit on people with Religious souls?

I don't say religious people are all idiots or are too big of a pussy to rebel against their folks or anything like that. I might belittle their beliefs, but I don't belittle the followers, and I don't say religious people are all only religious because they have an unpleasant character trait, like your claiming all atheists are teenage faux-rebels.

At 1/18/07 12:41 PM, JohnnyUtah wrote: I WORSHIP ZEUS AND THE GODS OF MOUNT OLYMPUS.

dammit. stop destroying my research

At 1/18/07 01:30 PM, MickTheChampion wrote:

At 1/18/07 01:28 PM, Earfetish wrote:

claiming all atheists are teenage faux-rebels.

It seems that a majority of the atheists on this site are...

And how can you tell? You might not find their explanations satisfactory, but no atheist on this website has made a post where they have indicated the reason they became an atheist is because it annoys their parents. In fact, that is a reason why a lot of people are closet atheists - because it would annoy their parents. If you have any evidence for this claim other than thought processes in your head, I'd love to hear it, since I've heard that atheists are just rebelling millions of times, but never from anyone like a sociologist or psychologist and never from anyone other than a defensive religious person going on the offence.

So yeah, seriously. Enlighten me.

And I hope I proved satisfactorily that you were trolling somewhat.

I'm not an atetist but I really don't follow any major reloigoin. I just believe in god and the after life and figure to not waste my life worshipping him because he did not give us life to just suck his dick the whole time.

let the blade be your latter

Results of age so far:

four people said 11
six people said 12
two people said 13
three people said 14
four people said 15
one person said 17

again, i am surprised at how many people turned to atheism at such a young age.

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now reach forth with all your might

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At 1/18/07 02:04 PM, simple-but-sandy wrote:

Well for me I have always believed much more strongly in science, one of my most commonly used phrases is "science doesn't lie".

Torn between an atheist Father and a religious Mother, I went with what I believed made the most sense to me.

Is it possible for science and religion to coexist?

Is it possible for science and religion to coexist?

Nope.It's just one tries to explain everything and the other says "God made it"

At 1/17/07 07:02 PM, shohaib wrote: 1. What religion did you first believe in?

Okay there is a flaw in your premise. Your questionnaire is based around the idea that all atheists were once religious. While there is a trend, that simply isn't true in all cases. Take me for instance; I have never been "religious" per se, since my mum isn't evangelical and my dad's an atheist. The only deeply religious relatives are in Canada, and I don't visit them that often.

2. At what age did you tun to atheism?

That's a difficult question to answer...when I was about ten I think, I started thinking the whole concept of Christianity (being that, at the time, it was the only religion I'd been exposed to) was ridiculous, which was primarily because I went to a partially religious primary school. They'd basically tell the odd heart-warming story about god destroying every animal in existence because a few pissed him off, and I was like "wtf is this bullshit, if he loves us then why..." etc. It was never an act of rebellion, more of an in-built rationalism which I suppose I had been raised with. When I became more freethinking, I became an agnostic, thinking that God's existence was impossible to prove either way. However, I started thinking this to be an unsatisfying position to be in, and kept wondering.

I toyed with ignosticism for a while (no, not agnosticism, ignosticism; wiki it). Then I figured that that particular position was also unsatisfying. Now, I'm a hardened atheist and sceptic. In terms of ages, I couldn't be specific; but it's something like:

10 - atheist
12 - agnostic
14 - ignostic
15 - atheist

3. Have you explored other religions?

I've explored, or at least attempted to explore all sorts...however, I got bored of reading holy texts after reading the Bible, attempting the Qu'ran and the Satanic Bible. I have to say, the best read was probably the Satanic Bible, but LaVey sort of refuted himself when he pretty much said Satanism was no different from secular humanism, apart from in the respect that Satanism had a specific doctrine. I don't like doctrine.