Yes. I eventually realized that I didn't actually believe anything I was being told.

I left because I got fed up of Christianity being constantly rammed down my throat at school. In my last year of primary school, all the kids who hadn't been to church on Sunday were made to stand up for five minutes in front of all the others on a Monday morning. That's no way to teach people to love one another, IMHO.

I had explored several denominations and found that every one I visited had a different interpretation of the bible.. and most of the people (in any of the churches)twisted the scriptures to justify what they wanted to do.. Each insists they are right, and none seemed willing to admit that nobody knows exactly what God wants. I just gave up wanting to be associated with people who aren't living with the type of love that the bible talks about. I got tired of people who claimed to preach tolerance but think nothing of standing on a street corner yelling insults at people who don't believe what they do. I got tired of people who choose what church they go to by which one teaches what they want to believe as true, instead of truly looking for the truth (regardless of religion/denomination/whatever).

After 20 years of studying it, trying to live it, talking to god and waiting patiently and faithfully for his work in my life, preaching all over the place and so on, I concluded that the world simply does not operate the way I was being told. More reading on the history of mankind and in particular the development of gods and religions in general finally showed me that they are all man-made rather than vice-versa...

Yes I am I studied into the history of Christianity, the times it originated from, the prophecies Jeusus "fulfilled" in the bible, mistranslations, misinterpretations, differenciations between denominations, many OTHER religions, etc, etc, etc. What started it though was when I heard of the mistranslation of the word "alma" in the OT to mean virgin, when really, it means a young woman (not YOUNG young, but a young WOMAN). The origional writers of the NT spoke greek, and their mistranslation of the ONE WORD in hebrew led one of the writers to speak of a virgin birth. Now that it means young woman, and it was never prophesied, the story of Jesus just seems like the story of Mithra, who was born of a virgin, the "savior", dinner with 12 disiples, etc. These stories were already floating right around the areas where Paul was from (who wrote half the NT). Now, logically, if the virgin birth of Jesus was fabricated to match a mistranslated prophecy on the part of the writer, what ELSE was fabricated? What other supernatural events occured? I can think of many. Not to mention that there were MANY claiming to be the messiah at the time. There are a few prophecies that Rabbis have found today that would be occuring today had Jesus been the messiah (not that I am a Jew, for that matter). These include bringing world peace, building the third temple, gathering the jewish people, and bringing the entire world to acknowledge and serve one god. There may be a few others, but those I can name off the top of my head. Jesus did NONE of these, miraculously. Also, do you know the time frame between the death of jesus and the writing of the gospels? the earliest gospel is dated at 60CE and the latest at 95CE. that is about 30-65 years after Jesus's death. That would put someone who lived before 100CE at about the age of 50 at the youngest, and 85 at the oldest. How long did people live back then? These are not eye-witness accounts or else they would not speak of what Jesus did as the disiples were "sleeping". Nor would this explain the faithfulness of one of the criminals and the badness of the other criminal in one account, but in the very next book, both criminals were bad people and spoke badly about Jesus. I used to be a "born again" Christian! My former blindness to the true TRUTH is something I regret horribly. Christianity only serves to anger me now. And the above hardly scratches the surface of why I do not believe in Jesus, Christianity, or anything to do with them.

i am. well, an ex-catholic, technically. i dunno. i tried for years to get into it. i did all the rituals, went to mass, etc. i even tried other forms of christianity, went to some youth rallies and whatnot. it just never spoke to me. i researched it inside and out, read the bible numerous times and so on. but in the end, i just accepted the fact that it wasn't for me. a lot of people are so bent on insisting that if they welcome jesus into their heart that they're automatically saved, and i don't buy that. i think there's way more to being a good person than something that simple, so that was a big part of my turning away from it. i don't think that there's anything wrong with christianity or any other religion either. it just works for some people and not for others. currently i do not follow any specific religion, i have my own set of beliefs- although i do believe in a higher power.

Very simply: "A proper education."