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To the atheists: Has there been a point in your atheist life..?

that you thought there could be God or some form of Highest power? Can you describe the incident or why you felt it that time?

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  • tonysh
    Lv 6
    3 years ago

    No. I was a Christian till I was 17, and after 9 months of study became an atheist.

    In 52 years since, nothing to do with any of the Abrahamic religions and all the associated myths has ever attracted me, and I cannot recall a single event in that time for which a factual/logical/scientific explanation wasn't available.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    I am NOT an atheist and never have been. I have never been that stupid! But the Bible talks about atheists a lot. Here's some scriptures; (Ecclesiastes 7:9) 9 Do not be quick to take offense, for the taking of offense lodges in the bosom of fools.

    (Ecclesiastes 7:5, 6) 5 Better to listen to a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools. 6 For as the crackling of thorns burning under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool; and this too is futility.

    Psalm 92:6

    Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

    6 Stupid people don’t know this.

    Fools don’t understand.

    (Psalm 10:3, 4) For the wicked one boasts about his selfish desires and blesses the greedy one;

    He disrespects Jehovah. 4 In his haughtiness, the wicked man makes no investigation;

    All his thoughts are: “There is no God.”

    Psalm 14:1 King James Version (KJV) 14 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. The New World Translation says; (Psalm 14:1) 14 The senseless one has said in his heart: “There is no Jehovah.” They have acted ruinously, they have acted detestably in [their] dealing. There is no one doing good.

    Isaiah 44:18

    Living Bible (TLB)

    " Such stupidity and ignorance! God has shut their eyes so that they cannot see and closed their minds from understanding."

    Jude 16 These men are murmurers, complainers about their lot in life, following their own desires, and their mouths make grandiose boasts, while they are flattering others for their own benefit.

    (Ecclesiastes 7:5, 6) 5 Better to listen to a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools. 6 For as the crackling of thorns burning under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool; and this too is futility.

    (Ecclesiastes 7:9) 9 Do not be quick to take offense, for the taking of offense lodges in the bosom of fools.

    The discoverer of the “law of gravity,” Sir Isaac Newton, was another who was deeply impressed by the evidence of God’s invisible qualities that are to be seen in His creation. The following account relates how Newton testified to his belief in Almighty God:

    Newton once had a skilled mechanic make for him a model of the solar system. Balls representing the planets were geared together so as to move realistically in orbit. One day an atheist friend visited Newton. On seeing the model, he operated it, and exclaimed in admiration, “Who made it?” Newton answered, “Nobody!” The atheist replied, “You must think I am a fool! Of course somebody made it, and he is a genius.” Newton then said to his friend, “This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer and maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker!”

    Newton’s friend came to acknowledge that the great Designer and Maker of all things is God. Surely we, too, as we look on the marvels of creation about us, in the heavens and on earth, must acknowledge that an all-wise Creator made it all! How thankful we should be that this mighty Creator lovingly placed man here on this earth and that he is deeply interested in us!

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  • 3 years ago

    Sure. When I was a child.

    But, as I grew up, and became more and more capable of critical, rational thought, I put away childish things, as it were.

  • 3 years ago

    Nope. There has never been a point in my life where I thought that I need the help of a supernatural entity - that's because I know there's no such thing as "supernatural".

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  • 3 years ago

    No, never.

    I have definitely contemplated the issue, but at no time did it seem plausible.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    3 years ago

    I was raised a believer and even started taking pre-confirmation classes. That was when the myth really started to unravel for me. It was a slow process of reasoning, information gathering and evaluation alongside my natural mental development.

    I wouldn't have used a label for my lack of belief because it struck me as the natural state of people before they get brainwashed into religion and after they have broken out of it. We don't bother with a special name for people who don't believe in pixies so why have one those who do not believe gods are real?

    At no time since then have I thought there could be a god or did I want there to be a god or feel the world would be a better place with a god or two. I deal with reality.

  • 3 years ago

    Most of us Atheists were once christians and fully believed in the superstition for a good portion of our lives.

    My belief in the christian superstition ended somewhere during post-graduate college. Those thoughts of a higher power were actually fueled by high levels of ignorance in human history and proper cause and effect relationships. As I gained a better understanding of the world we live in, my years of childhood indoctrination collapsed.

    The ONLY REASON that I was a christian was because I was born in a place and a time that allowed me to be exposed to significant amounts of material regarding the Pauline mythology. Had I been born in Aztec Mexico, feudal Japan or 1945 Lebanon, I would have been an entirely different bag of beliefs and religious traditions. Thus, the faith that you believe in - regardless of how convinced you are - is ultimately accidental - a function of Time, Geography and Circumstance.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    no

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    When I was about 3.

  • 3 years ago

    That was before I learned how to tell fiction and reality apart.

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