Comment by Eoganacht on September 5, 2011 at 1:26am

One december day I decided that I would try to find my xmas presents. I had seen my parents emerge with them from their room so I tried there and found them all wrapped and poorly hidden in the closet. The three possibilities I could think of were: my parents were giving me gifts because santa wouldn't; santa was working through my parents (unlikely - why would he need a sleigh then?); or he did not exist and my parents were in on it. After a long think I thought the third was the most likely, namely because I had only seen plastic santas and reindeer up to that point and there was a surprising simularity between the wrapping paper on the presents and the stuff around the house. From that point onwards I was very skeptical about anything like that and never really accepted any religion. I probably owe my atheism, or at least realising it at a young age, to santa claus.

Comment by Akshay Bist on September 5, 2011 at 2:55am

I was 7 or 8 years old when I started wondering if we were created by the gods, then who created them. I thought that gods had their own gods. And those gods had their set of gods & so on. Then something hit me. We are the lowest denomination, we have gods, and they have their gods & so on, but we aren't gods to anyone. That sucks. By the time I was nine and a half, I was a confirmed atheist.

My curiosity led me to become an atheist.

Comment by b.Lee on September 5, 2011 at 3:06am

@Akshay we are gods to ants..haha

 

Comment by Akshay Bist on September 5, 2011 at 4:59am

@b.Lee Yeah I considered ants & other insects, but they never prayed to me & I didn't seem to have any godly powers :< , so that idea went out of the window

Comment by Kelin420 on September 5, 2011 at 6:02am

I don't remember any one event or time- I did not grow up in a religious family.

As a kid, and still, I loved dinosaurs, monster movies, and cartoons.

Some "monsters" were out of Greek mythology. Plenty of gods and other fairy-tale creatures. "Clash of the Titans" just leaps to mind. Cartoons are full of mythical creatures.Books are full of orcs, goblins, elves and other god(s)- ALL of it make believe. 

Growing up in a family that never had much, if any, religion I was never told that it is "real",

The few times I went to church with friends that were not so lucky, I asked questions about dinosaurs, monsters and other stuff. I never got answers that made sense to me.

They would say things like monsters, dinosaurs, mythology and other god(s) were make believe- then start talking nonsense about God, devils, talking snakes and talking, burning bushes- as if they were real.

I knew dinosaurs actually existed and went extinct.

Godzilla was make believe. Monsters, leprechans, orcs, Zeus, Medussa, Hercules, all the gods on Mt. Olympus, unicorns, etc... ALL make believe.

What's one more tombstone in the over-crowded Graveyard of Gods?

The Bibile - It's just as make believe. 

The difference being nobody believes in Zeus anymore. 

   

Comment by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on September 5, 2011 at 7:35am

I did not believe in any gods long before I realisied I was an Atheist. One day I just understood that I had been one for quite a while when I heard the term "Atheist". "Ah thats me...wonder if there are others that think like me?" I see it as a positive term (label) no matter how Theists try to make it sound negative. Godless is good !!

Comment by Artor on September 5, 2011 at 12:57pm

My family was always pretty non-religious, but I went to a couple Xtian schools, so I grew up vaguely theist, plus, I was in the middle of redneck country. But several years in a Catholic school did in religion for me. Being forced to think about it alot, I quickly realized that the worldview Xtianity pushes simply does not match the world I can perceive with my own two eyes. By 6th grade, I was solidly & confidently atheist.

Comment by Kroli Danger Krolak on September 5, 2011 at 2:22pm

having 5 older siblings who loved to ruin things for me i never believed in Santa or any of that crap. i remember being very young and upset with my mom because the "tooth fairy" didn't come. i figured there wasnt a god even though at that age i really needed one. i remained a closet agnostic until i gathered enough information to make an educated decision 

Comment by Garrett Taffer on September 5, 2011 at 2:29pm

Unfortunately, unlike most of you, my struggles with religion and gods went on for about 4 decades, if you count that I was indoctrinated at birth.

Thanks to the internet, Moral Orel, my wife (who's still religious and inadvertently told me to REALLY STUDY THE BIBLE), books like God Is Not Great and The God Delusion, and that crazy thing called evolution, which, holy sh*t, turned out to be true...

 

...I still couldn't call myself a full-fledged atheist. I'll settle for agnostic, for now. 

Comment by Kroli Danger Krolak on September 5, 2011 at 2:41pm

because we cant test the lack of a gods existence YET. if you're an atheist you're really an agnostic who really really really doesnt think there is a god.

 

and if your wife REALLY studied the bible she'd know the edits from the original and the actual date it was written falsify it tremendously. 

 

 

sorry,  im not meaning to be derogatory towards your wife but when someone brings up the bible  i must retaliate

 

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