How old were yo when you stopped being an edgy teen and abandoned atheism?

how old were yo when you stopped being an edgy teen and abandoned atheism?

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I don't want there to be afterlife tho

How old were you when you stopped larping as a crusader and abandoned Christianity?

I'm not a fedora and I could accept an explanation about some god creating the universe because I don't care about that particular question. What I can't abide however are the rituals.
If I want to be spiritual or have a conversation with myself I'll have it in my own home. Some people actually need the church just like some people don't. It's the same with relationships really.
There's always a guy who can't live with himself unless he's in a relationship just like there's a guy who's been single for a decade and doesn't care much about it.
The issue with an afterlife or reincarnation is the burden of proof. If you want to believe what the religious text says that's your prerogative. Next life, Afterlife or No life come after death. No use worrying about it now.

19, then I realized agnosticism was the most accurate description of my model of reality. To assert that there is no god is not necessarily equal to asserting there is one, because as the progression of time goes on the "god of the gaps" argument is abating in validity due to the increasing contrasts that science and history have with religious beliefs and texts

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I'm a self hating atheist. I realize how cancerous nihilism and atheism is to society and how important religion is to subdue normies yet I can't bring myself to believe in god. Life is suffering please kill me.

26 but I don't believe a jew in a stick to be the son of god/god although I go to that church as a form of meditation.

I believe that there is someone who created us, though, and them I see as my god.

well, 4chan has invaded

oh well
oh well

I think I was 21 or 22

There are very few people who call themselves atheists that actually "assert that there is no god" with 100% certainty. Most people who don't believe in any gods realize that realize that you can't prove there isn't a god just as much as you can't prove there is a god. Even Dawkins knows that you can't prove theistic non-existence even though he posits himself as a gnostic atheist.

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How old were you when you stopped posting this thread?

i bet if you stopped today you would be 12.

The consensus among historians is that Jesus existed and was crucified.
If you believe that a God could have raised him, then there are good reasons to think God did raise him.
That is what all the Gospels say, and it explains why his followers really believed he had risen and were willing to die for him; even those that had rejected his word.
That's my understanding anyway; I'll admit I'm not an expert

watching anime has turned you into a monster

Why is this 4chan thread here?

Very most likely true. But…
Why? Because he's the Messiah? What makes this Jesus guy the Messiah and not the myriad other Jews who claimed the same thing? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_messiah_claimants

it is not

The other Messiahs didn't get a religion named after them; maybe it's on account of they didn't give evidence of who they were by coming back from the dead.

Question is why are you here tumblr sjw faggot.

Even kikepedia acknowledges that the myth people are obscure retards
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

Watch more anime and shut up.

kys fam

Sorry but I just can't get into believing in a god or some great creator over the world because I find it highly unrealistic and hard to believe. I will not believe something just because someone wrote it down. I am opposed to sjws and shitflinging lefties though and personally believe they need to get shot for trying to ram lgbt garbage down everyone's throat. What I want is preservation of christianity not the act of subversive garbage who wish to destroy/alter the religion.

Repent

So it's a popularity contest then? Scientology is pretty popular. Islam is pretty popular. Why aren't those correct?
Also I remember Jesus talking about how narrow the gate is and how few would find it. The fact that the great majority of people who believe the Messiah has come believes that Jesus was that Messiah does not reconcile with this.

Know what? You're not a very good apologist so I'm not even going to address the rest of your hearsay-evidence. Go back and read the Gospels with the realization that they were written long after Jesus' execution.

Dunno, man, when I thought there was some fucking spreekiller running around the campus and I prayed, it went so wrong, you can't even imagine.

If you didn't get any followers you probably aren't the Messiah.
It is, however, possible to get followers and not be the Messiah.

A few decades. Within the lifetimes of eye-witnesses. There are some letters dating earlier as well.
People usually point out that histories of some other figures from that time weren't compiled for centuries

You know this messianic thing is the first thing they check when they're trying to make someone suicide, don't you?

If there is a god, he's far more powerful than even my edgy brain can imagine. Therefore he/she/it does not need my constant interface/prayers to it constantly to make he/she/it feel better about itself by making me feel better about itself.

If one day I find myself standing before your or any other god, my reasoning will be. "I behaved in the manor I though was right at all times. at sometimes I slackened due to my own failings. These mistakes are my own and mine alone, smite me if you must."

Do you pray out loud or you just think?

Neither

The logic
Doesn't work.
Or at least it doesn't work for most religions' understanding of God

It's not true, they say, that God has limited 'brain power' and can only care about one thing at a time, or only about big things. God cares about all of us

Because I found the picture on google and saved it.

Respectfully, (as much as drunk me can be) I feel like you're misinterpreting my point.

Either "God" is so busy with things that are so far beyond me or "God" is so busy with every single human being that prays to him that he doesn't have time for me.

I understand and acknowledge your right to care. But that doesn't mean I have to. I will be the best person I will be without the intervention of a divine being. (Which honestly is what we all should strive for). If when I die I stand before a divine being, The post that I have made before shall be my plea.

or it's just simple not god's divine plan
or he just don't give a fuck.

exactly

Alright, so you you're saying God has limited 'time' or ability; that doesn't fit into their viewpoint either

The main thing is, I don't really care one way or the other. I'll die knowing I lived the best life possible. If that doesn't fit into some ancient sandwizard's life. Then fuck him/her/it.

16 when baptized. I was a late bloomer. Linkin Park was big.

Relapse for a bit at 19, then met a qt 3.14 girl saving herself for marriage and we are now married with kids.

Raising them Christian of course.

I think when you're near death you're likely to care one way or the other.
Religious people fear death a lot less

Prayers don't get answered because of simple reasons.
Either it's not in his divine plan, he don't give a fuck or he isn't real.
He's not going to change his plan for each shmuck with a 2$ prayerbook.

christian atheist here, ama

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so about 2 months ago

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u just have issues - after all u browse 8ch

Never did actually although I non-practicing because redditors have ruined it for everyone else.

you mean you can't believe in a cancerous socialist slave morality god

Catholic.

Talmudists.

You can do some abs, get a taser, beat some tribal chief near the amazonas, fuck all his girls and you will be a god according to their religion.

Do you have autism? Serious question, english isnt my native tongue and i get the concept.

That doesnt made you an atheist, just another flavor of truehuggism.

Scientology isnt popular and revelations talk about islam, even 666 is a sacred number for muslims, i am using your argument against your point, next time try reading the Bible before talking about it.

Isnt that a prayer?

There is the word God and the word gods for a reason.

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the reason is u fags r stuck up and think yours is more important, cuz its yours and "real"

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You're no better than the atheists tbh.

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undisputed
god disproved again

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I was about 28 when I realized I believed in god in some metaphysical sense, from 28-30 I started to think that Christianity was an awfully good fit for what you'd want a religion that captured important fundamental truths to look like, 29 when I became a convinced theist, 30 when I became Christian.


Try to imagine what a pious Christian would do if he were attacked by Satan, his reason clouded, his faith crippled. What would his next steps be?

If you can do that you don't have to be a self-hating atheist anymore. You can at least know that you're an atheist who is trying to do the right thing.

(Your situation isn't so different from someone driving on the highway who starts having hallucinations, or starts losing his vision entirely. He knows that if he behaves as though what he sees is real, the result will be a disaster. But he can't see anything else! So what does he do?)

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Never abandoned atheism, just became a Holla Forumstard

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Around 15 and 16.

9 years old; my entire life, my teachers and parents had told me that God doesn't exist, but every time I asked them where the world came from, or what the meaning of life was, I was met with silence, and they told me not to ask 'stupid' questions. then one day when I was walking home from school, past the small local church, I noticed some kids from my school inside, praying with the pastor. Even though my parents had forbid me from going to church, I felt something come over me (which I now know to have been the hand of God). I walked in and asked them what they were doing, and the pastor asked me if I had heard of Jesus. The next 30 minutes were the most transformative of my life. I entered that church an atheist, devoid of meaning and salvation, and walked out a Christian. All the questions I had which my parents and teachers couldn't answer, God could answer. I came home excited and told my parents all about God, and they were very angry at me, and told me never to go back to church. From that moment on they didn't let me out of their sight, but when I got older and they didn't have the same control over me, I started to go back to church. They didn't support the idea, but slowly, as I talked to them more and more about God and Jesus, how he died for our sins, they became more intrigued, until eventually, I convinced them to come to Church with me. That day, my parents were saved as well. And that's the story of how I became a Christian. Jesus has truly changed my life for the better.

I pray by scent.

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Never. That would be abandoning truth and reality.
There are no god or gods. And that's just as it should be.

I recently became a follower of kek

How do you know?

I read a two-paragraph summary of The God Delusion on r/atheism back in middle school

Thats explain why pol become a shitboard.

Bleesings brother.

maybe when I was 20
I'm almost 26 now
still dunno what to believe in

Because I am from the factory.

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