At what age did you become a beliver... at what age not?

I was about 35 when I fully left the church.

I was taught the idea of Christianity and god growing up. I remember believing it in an unquestioning way around 7-10. Sometime later though I started to really think about it and how its claims sounded like other mythologies and fantasy tales we easily label fictions. Also, that we easily dismiss other religions claims with no better or worse basis as our own. As a teen I began to study my religion more earnestly looking to shore up faith and find some good evidential basis. Reading the Bible seriously and objectively though put the nail in the coffin. I seriously can't understand how people can really buy a supreme creator of the universe and all life conversing with humans it created and telling them slaughter their enemies and their children and livestock but take their enemies' virgin females and then shave their heads and wait 30 days and add them to their harem or whatever. It really is beyond me how people can believe it or that the Bible informs contemporary 'family values'. It was a gradual process but by college I was an agnostic and I truly don't believe religion or holy texts are other than human constructs.

I was raised in a Christian home. My faith kind of here and there, until in my 20's I got involved with Gene Scott's TV ministry. Watching at first, then answering phones as a Voice of Faith in his TV studio a few times.

I was into drugs and guns. I started hearing a voice in my head at 26. I am now 52. That voice is a spirit. the one that makes me a soul. he did not like the way I was living.

Look at my profile.

I was taught to pray at about age 2. I was a baptist, but didn't "believe " it until my dad married a catholic who was also his half-niece. They got permission from the pope to marry because she had been divorced and then her husband died. Pope had no problem with incest.

So then I was taught the catholic religion. I liked it. I liked having a girl "god" to love and talk to in Mary, since my mother had died and my stepmother was a cruel-monster-hag. The religion was beautiful and foreign. I liked the rituals and all the people looking so calm.

I never could figure out what they had that I didn't.

At about age 12, I figured out that it was fake and a big fraud full of money-grubbers and hypocrites. I lost all respect for it. I continued to go until I could drive and then went to the do-nut shop instead. I preferred donuts for communion.

At 18, I announced to the world that I was an atheist and then was talked into saying agnostic, so I wouldn't lose my job or scare people.

For 45 years, I have been a vocal atheist and I enjoy reading about buddhism and participating in parts of chrismiss, like the tree and presnets, and over-indulging in food. I am content with my life and ideas.

I wish that for everyone and for the rest, mind your own business!

Around 11 or 12 is when I first started to become certain that I didn't believe in Christianity, the supernatural or Gods.

I guess before then I never really actually thought about it.

I never really believed in Santa for example, but I do remember when I was very very young that I believed in the tooth fairy. I also remember trying to catch my parents in the act of recovering the tooth before I moved out of my first bed room which would mean I stopped believing in the tooth fairy before I was 8.

Can't remember precisely when though. Probs around 5 or 6 I guess. Memories from then are a bit jumbled.

I was about the same. As a child I believed in a Christian God but soon realized that it was all just a myth. I then grew up as an atheist, but looking back on my life after 77 years, I pretty much lived the life of a monk, in that I didn't need a religion to guide my morals.

I first believed at 13. I verified the belief at 35 in experience. As a result, belief is replaced by experience and became unnecessary.

I stopped believing in God at around age 14. I always doubted religion though.

I was raised as a Christian, but I could no longer believe aged 15.

I believe I'm atheist because my mother lets me think for myself, it's very rare that kids have faith in Christianity when it isn't shoved down their throats from a very young age

Came to know Jesus at 19 but always knew about Him till he came within me. Now going on 74.

Still think and live like 19!