Atheists, did you try another religion before you called it quits and embraced atheism?

I was raised Episcopalian, and was even confirmed. I didn't call it quits. When the evidence pointed otherwise, I simply stopped believing in god or Jesus. When that happens, religion is an empty path to nowhere.

Well I was brought up in 50s Australia xian based culture...

I knew their god was imaginary...

In the 70s I looked for god among the Hare Krishnas and although they had better stories their god was imaginary too...

"and embraced atheism?"

The only thing to 'embrace' is that there are no gods.

Kid, if you can produce a god I'll be in - seriously.

But you can't cos there isn't.

It's all fantasy stuff designed to scam children and seriously gullible adults.

Grow up.

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As a kid I grew up as a Lutheran Christian, but ever since I turned 13 I've always just relied on the facts and now I just can't believe that some people believe in some magic man in the sky that created everything and everyone.

No. It's one of those things that you just are or aren't. I've never been capable of religious faith. Most religion requires one think less than I am capable of doing. I do nothing but think and I question everything and am open to all possibilities, but I need evidence to consider a possibility more seriously.

Atheism = not believing in gods.

Atheism =/= fed up with this religion.

I tried Christianity, Buddhism and Islam.

They all are garbage of the worst sort. Particularly Islam.

So yes I experienced the worst kinds of religions and still remain convinced that there's no god.

Tried out a few.

Christianity was BS.

Buddhism seemed pretty cool, having a teacher rather than a God. Wrong.

I now see logic and science.

My biggest reason to leave my first religion also applied to every other religion I know of: no evidence. I don't need an organization to make up answers to life's toughest questions for me anyway.

"Another" religion? Atheism is not a religion.

But anyway, no, I've always been an atheist.

No; the realization that made me stop believing in Christianity pretty much precluded all other supernatural religions. It wasn't so much, "this in particular isn't real," but "none of these are real."