we are all born atheists.

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Well, I am an atheist in that I do not believe in any established god out there..actually I am probably more agnostic.. I dissent but I am open to others views. It kind of cemented itself with me when I was 10. My father committed suicide when I was 9..he suffered allot of depression after his brother killed himself and they died a year apart. After my fathers death my mothers words to me were that he was feeling sad and wanted to go to the other side with god so that he could help others like him... A couple of months after this I tagged along with some friends on a Sunday (wasn't much into church even as a child though) I had nothing better to do.. The woman in charge of the kids asked about parents..when I told her about my father and what my mother said she replied vheminently that my father was burning in hell for eternity and would never be forgiven. I didn't feel an affinity to a god then and hearing that woman further made me further realise it was all crap. I could never believe in a higher power like that.. whether it is a Christian god or any other religion.. I just simply do not believe.

Well when I was little I grew up in religious surrondings, basically everyone I knew was religious except for my father. I lived only with my father but I had gone to a babbysitter.. My father actually was religious but we never spoke of religion, he basically left it up entirely to me. When I say we never spoke of it, we seriously never ever mentioned religion. He taught me a prayer but thats about all the influence he had on me when I was little. So I was given the choice to figure out religion on my own... What I boiled it down too was praying... I would pray for a lot of things, just to see if it would work.. sometimes simple things, mainly things having to deal with other people.. (I wasnt very selfish I guess ;P) After a few months of nothing ever happening I decided something was up and began to question religion. Then the question of death became an obessession to me. I didnt know much about religions explanation other than heaven and hell. So the question of whether or not I was going to heaven, and all the things that i needed to do in order to go there became of interest to me.. Well at first I was scared of hell and wanted to go to heaven. Natural of course, but I began to worry that I wasnt doing enough, and I worried about doing more, but I didnt want to do things like go to church, because I wanted to have fun as most kids my age wanted to do anyways. then one day I radically said, so what if i go to hell? The thouhgt didnt seem as scary because I had no vivid image of what it would be like, so I decided then and there, that I wouldnt worry about it, and I would just live my life without fear of going there. I decided if i was goin to burn for eternity, im sure it wouldnt be unbearable and I would just deal with it. After I was able to drop the fear of it, it became easier to descredit it (No consequences in descrediting something that doesnt scare you). So when I was younger the thought of reincarnation appealed to me more than heaven. I liked the idea of being given a new chance (when I was young I greatly detested being black, and wanted to come back white). And so I thought that for the longest time. But when I decided I wasnt going back (as I went back and forth in my earlier years) to religion, was when I was about 11. I met a college student online and he was the first intellectual atheist I had ever known. He explained his views rationally, and it greatly strengthed my views on the matter. It was exciting to find such a reasonable explanation for atheism, in an environment where everyone believed in religion, and I was the only person I knew who doubted it. Of course I had never really spoken about it and I never told anyone I was atheist, to this day I still get away with not telling, but I am atheist.

When I was twelve. I just put together some logic.

When I was 14 -- I thoroughly thought out some things. Before that, I was agnostic.

I suppose I always have been. Even though I was Christened as a baby, as soon as was old enough to think for myself I put two and two together and made a conscious decision to be an atheist.

from the time I was old enough to see the destruction and hypocrocy of organised religion and the hate and divisions it has caused in the past and continues to do to-day

I am not an atheist, I just dont believe in God. it happened early in the year when i was reading the new testament.

Haven't gone that far.i just recently turned from Christian to Agnostic because organized religions made no sense to me.I found logic and science to be much more sensible.But I still say you can never truely know even if I don't believe in a God so I'm not quite Atheist.

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