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Permalink Reply by msjessev on January 24, 2011 at 10:27am

No "aha!" moment. I just find the teachings of the church to be insufficient in giving me an answer as to the existence of a divine being.

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Permalink Reply by claudio fernando maciel on January 24, 2011 at 12:08pm

For me it came rather gradually. Day-by-day thing. 

The more I learned, the more atheist I've become.

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Permalink Reply by Ben on January 24, 2011 at 2:38pm

No big aha moment for me either. For me it was a process. I began to wonder why truth and salvation was regional (If born in the US your exposed to Christianity- Middle East exposed to Islam and so on).

This lead to even more questions and then finally I realized I was an Atheist and had been for a while.

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Permalink Reply by Adrian Quantum on January 24, 2011 at 5:26pm

No a-ha! moment for me either. It was a gradual process started when I saw " What bleep do we knou?"

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Permalink Reply by T A A on January 25, 2011 at 5:22am

We are all born atheists, without any notion of any supernatural. It's deluded parents who sway our minds to folly. My parents were crummy in a lot of regards, but they never mentioned, not once, god or jesus at home, so it never even dawned on me to consider the existence of anything supernatural. Once I got to school, they tried to convert me (school system was still catholic back then). I had a couple of weeks (literally) of doubts, around the age of 12-13 under pressure from my good friends at the time, but it was short lived, since there was zero evidence... So I dismissed my doubts, and those friends, they were not worth my time.

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Palo on June 3, 2011 at 11:53am

It was really more of an 'oh, I don't really have reason to believe that either.'

 

It took a bit longer to realize that being an atheist is pretty awesome.

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Permalink Reply by 3equ3cp1fsw0n on June 3, 2011 at 1:14pm

My Aha! atheist moment was when I realized that no matter what I did, or how hard I tried to make it so, a concept of a loving God was not logical. It was a devestating moment.

 

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Permalink Reply by Ama Maduako on October 28, 2011 at 12:37pm

I hate going to church (I'm still forced to) and have always been, and I've always had doubts, but trusted my parents that they were right. I DID have an AHA moment, though, after watching Zeitgeist, and even though I now reject a lot of the ideas expressed by it, I still accept that 'God'doesn't exist.

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Permalink Reply by Kyle on November 23, 2011 at 7:49pm

My "'aha!' moment" took a while. After going through different Christian movements and denominations I became agnostic. I found myself going back to Christianity each time because I missed the comfort it used to give me and tried to make it work. My brother was really getting into Messianic Jewish stuff, and I started leaning his direction a little but wasn't willing to go all the way with it. Eventually it got to a point where nothing he said made any sense, and I started questioning it. That led me to research prophecies supposedly fulfilled by Jesus, and I came to the conclusion that he didn't really fulfill a single prophecy. Some were fabricated, others were just twisted to say what Christians wanted it to say. That's when I realized I couldn't accept Christianity ever again and became an atheist. It was tough adjusting at first, but I was happier about it and am still happier.

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