If you are one that LOST your Faith in God, what caused it.?

For about a decade

I had been absorbing the dogma of my family's religion

(Roman Catholic), with hardly a question.

But I finally got old enough to realize

that some parts contradicted other parts,

and I assumed I must have gotten some things wrong

or was looking at them wrong.

So I started asking a lot of questions

and working hard to put it all into clear, logical order.

But the harder i worked

the more loose ends popped up

and the less consistent the whole mess got.

Finally, it occurred to me

that the only way to make any sense of it

was to understand it all

as a few thousand years of cultural baggage

and human emotional need and imagination.

And my faith evaporated.

That was in 1966.

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Regards,

John Popelish

Believe it or not, it was a decision on my part to memorize every word that Jesus said, because I wanted to be a better Christian. I committed myself to 1/2 hour every night for this purpose. Within a few months, I was a devout follower of the teachings of Jesus, an ex-Christian, and a spiritual atheist.

There is no god that I know of to lose faith in. If you show me one, and it meets my standards of morality, perhaps, I might reconsider.

(I've noticed that a string of honest answers to your question have received a thumbs down. How revealing!)

Two years of self study and research that convinced me that Christianity was a lie.

The fact that God is a fictional character. As soon as I found out God was a fictional character, I stopped having faith in anything.

Theodicy, the problem that the bible does not adequately answer-why we suffer.

One who completely loses faith in God, most likely is a false convert, they never repented of their sin, never put their trust in Jesus Christ, and were never born again.

That does not mean that Christians do not have struggles with their faith. But a true born again Christian will not abandon the faith, because that faith is a gift from God and God never fails.

Unanswered prayers in times of great need, and not feeling the love. I've heard this from many friends and family.

Lack of physical evidence and logic

Knowledge and critical thinking is how I freed myself from believing in gods. I haven't "lost" anything.