Were you religiously affiliated before becoming atheist? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by Fritzer09@feddit.de to c/atheism@feddit.de

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Hi, to counteract all the memes here, I want to start a discussion. Maybe answer the question I asked and tell why you "lost faith".

Lets start with myself. I went to a catholic church as a child, my mothers parents are devout christians, my father is atheist as long as I know. After the elder in the community bullied a very nice priest away when i was around 10, I stopped going to church. I never joined the church as full member as you have to do a confirmation as a late teen and left the church when I was around 20. And now even my mother left the church, so she does not have to pay taxes to them. My Grandparents don't know this, I think my Grandpa would die of an hearth attack, if he ever found out.

So I would say I never had "faith", it was just routine that you went to church.

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[-] SecretPancake@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

Mom and stepdad are both christians and made me come to church every sunday and even go to "bible school". I always was sceptical of the practices and stories but did believe in God. But to me it always was a creepy thought that some dude was always watching what I was doing and judging me. It turned me into an extremely self conscious person.

Over time I kept thinking about it and it became less and less logical.

"Why this God and not whatever other religions believe?"
"If this is the correct God, how should people in India know and why is God such an asshole about it?" (my mom said "oh they know but they refuse to believe, so it's their fault". Bullshit)
"Why are the stories in the bible so inconsistent and everyone interprets it differently?"
"If God can do anything he could actually talk to us not make a mystery about it all"

So at some point it clicked for me and I completely lost believe in basically anything supernatural (including ghosts).

I do believe the church community is a good thing for some people and if it doesn't scam people out of money I'm the last person to try and convince these people otherwise.

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