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How can you disbelieve a religion if you weren't a believer once?

wouldn't that be like claiming the sky is blue because God uses blue crayons and not because of the Sun's Rays ... you know, because that sounds nice not because you actually read about it and thought over the details and went ahead and asked professors and so on ...

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    Simple. Religions are based on a god being true (theism).

    I know no gods exist due to the complete lack of evidence for any one of them.

    Therefore religions must also be false, based as they are on the one known falsehood.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    The problem for so many "former believers" is they were

    trying to hitch a ride on someone else's experience . . .

    be that their parents' religious tradition, the enthusiastic

    assurances of a church leader or their chief evangelists,

    or based solely on an objective view of a version of Bible

    doctrine that may range from erratic to total gobbledygook.

    The Christian faith was intended to be based on subjective

    experience of the person converted by an act of the Spirit.

    God Himself initiates that in His elect, drawing them to a

    sound faith in Jesus Christ that is grounded in His Spirit

    and evidenced by the working of gifts of the Spirit.

    For those who are so sure none of this is true ~ that's fine

    because you're not intended to "believe" by any other way.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    If you were born in any non-biblical religion or in an atheist family, and you read the Bible, the bizarre nature of the strange book would stand out. The cruelty, tyranny, terrorism, and barbarity would be so prevalent that you would recoil and not be able to imagine that God could be a sadomasochist, thus it is either myth or a lie. Even the Bible that talks about God makes it impossible for that particular God to exist.

  • 8 years ago

    So, you once believed in and followed the religions of Agdistis, Ah Puch, Ahura Mazda, Alberich, Allah, Amaterasu, An, Anansi, Anat, Andvari, Anshar, Anu, Apollo, Apsu, Ares, Artemis, Asclepius, Athena, Athirat, Athtart, Atlas, Baal, Ba Xian, Bacchus, Balder, Bast, Bellona, Bergelmir, Bes, Bixia Yuanjin, Bragi, Brahma, Brigit, Camaxtli, Ceres, Ceridwen, Cernunnos, Chac, Chalchiuhtlicue, Charun, Chemosh, Cheng-huang, Cybele, Dagon, Damkina, Davlin, Dawn, Demeter, Diana, Di Cang, Dionysus, Ea, El, Enki, Enlil, Eos, Epona, Ereskigal, Farbauti, Fenrir, Forseti, Freya, Freyr, Frigg, Gaia, Ganesha, Ganga, Garuda, Gauri, Geb, Geong Si, God of Abraham, Hades, Hanuman, Hathor, Hecate, Helios, Heng-o, Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Hestia, Hod, Hoderi, Hoori, Horus, Hotei, Huitzilopochtli, Hsi-Wang-Mu, Hygeia, Inanna, Inti, Iris, Ishtar, Isis, Ixtab, Izanaki, Izanami, Jesus, Juno, Jupiter, Juturna, Kagutsuchi, Kartikeya, Khepri, Ki, Kingu, Kinich Ahau, Kishar, Krishna, Kukulcan, Lakshmi, Liza, Loki, Lugh, Luna, Magna Mater, Maia, Marduk, Mars, Medb, Mercury, Mimir, Minerva, Mithras, Morrigan, Mot, Mummu, Muses, Nammu, Nanna, Nanse, Neith, Nemesis, Nephthys, Neptune, Nergal, Ninazu, Ninhurzag, Nintu, Ninurta, Njord, Nut, Nyx, Odin, Ohkuninushi, Ohyamatsumi, Orgelmir, Osiris, Ostara, Pan, Parvati, Phaethon, Phoebe, Phoebus Apollo, Pilumnus, Poseidon, Quetzalcoatl, Rama, Re, Rhea, Sabazius, Sarasvati, Selene, Shiva, Seshat, Seti, Shamash, Shapsu, Shen Yi, Shiva, Shu, Si-Wang-Mu, Sin, Sirona, Sol, Surya, Susanoh, Tawaret, Tefnut, Tezcatlipoca, Thanatos, Thor, Thoth, Tiamat, Tlaloc, Tonatiuh, Toyo-Uke-Bime, Tyche, Tyr, Utu, Uzume, Venus, Vesta, Vishnu, Volturnus, Vulcan, Xipe, Xi Wang-mu, Xochipilli, Xochiquetzal, Yam, Yarikh, Yhwh, Ymir, Yu-huang, Yum Kimil, Zeus, or any other god not mentioned here too? You've actually read about all of them and thought over the details and went ahead and asked professors and so on ...

    Wow, I am impressed.

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  • 8 years ago

    all children born are atheist. it is the standard default for all humans. children are indoctrinated into religion either through their parents and family or through a school they were put in. asking questions is a good way to get answers and religion does not have all the answers. in fact it doesnt have any answers...

  • gai
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    I'm sorry, but how does that question make any kind of sense? If you never believed in any religion you can't disbelieve religion?

  • 8 years ago

    I'm sure you gave thousands of religions equal time before settling on the one your parents raised you to believe.

  • 8 years ago

    like this, I don't believe in fairies and I have never believed in fairies.

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