Path.

[omfgzmariah]

Summary of the religious path you have taken. From past religions to becoming an Atheist.


Go.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Christianity.  Irrational atheist.  Atheist.  The last two, of course, not being religions.

[omfgzmariah]

Christianity.  Irrational atheist.  Atheist.  The last two, of course, not being religions.

Well said, ;p

Define irrational Atheist for me.

[chrome]

Never really been religious... although I have been to a few different churches - Have never believed in the existence in god.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Christianity.  Irrational atheist.  Atheist.  The last two, of course, not being religions.

Well said, ;p

Define irrational Atheist for me.

Didn't believe in god(s), believed in pseudoscientific bullshit for a couple of years.

[omfgzmariah]

Didn't believe in god(s), believed in pseudoscientific bullshit for a couple of years.

Such as?

Sorry, I'm just curious!

[Tank]

Born atheist, dragged to church till 13 'ish remained atheist, still atheist, will die atheist (unless given a valid reason to do otherwise).

[Thumpalumpacus]

PK, mainly, some TP as well.  (That's "telepathy" and not "toilet paper", Poop.)

[omfgzmariah]

PK, mainly, some TP as well.  (That's "telepathy" and not "toilet paper", Poop.)

ahhh, intriguing.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Nah, not really, more the resistance to give up belief, with nothing to back it up.  Waste of a good two years.

[epepke]

Raised not particularly religious.  Brief acute bout with Christianity as a teen.  Complete recovery.

[omfgzmariah]

Okay, I'll answer my own question.


My mom raised me to be a freethinker. My dad objected.

I don't remember how the idea of God was implanted in my head, but I remember praying and asking him that if he would help me find my shoes I would never cuss again.
But I always knew I was lying. Haha.

I tried to invent my own religion when I was about 10. "Earthic"   Like Wiccan, but no magic. Apparently I was a realist before I knew it. I was creative, what can I say.

I then pretended to be a Christian because my current lover was. He was crazy. I went to an all African American (Baptist) church with him. People talked in tongues and passed out.

I always knew I didn't believe in God, at all. But I let them Baptize me anyways. The whole time I knew it was a bunch of bull.

Around the same time my mother got 'saved' by God, so she went crazy on me too. So I went to some churches with her, to humor her.

Then I dumped him and began meditating and claiming I was a Buddhist/Daoist/Taoist/Something.

Then I joined some random forum (not this one - ha), and delved into some philosophy and met a few really interesting people that impacted my life.

Around this time I just became someone who would rather learn, then ever decide.

Then I was into objectivism. Though that's not really a religion? I dunno.

And now, this.

[philosoraptor]

Methodist.  Christian, attended Catholic and Methodist services.  Unitarian Universalist.  Agnostic.  Atheist.

[Har]

Christian. Fundamentalist Christian. Agnostic. Christian. Agnostic. New Agey mumbo jumbo. Atheism. Har.

[PoopShoot]

PK, mainly, some TP as well.  (That's "telepathy" and not "toilet paper", Poop.)

Meh.  I studied telekinesis for a while.  I stopped bothering when I realized that all "evidence" of TK was situations that were clearly impractical for everyday usage.  I later found out why.

@OP:
I was raised in an Assemblies of God church in Sacramento, CA.  My mother was a teacher at the preschool there and I was allowed to attend the church's private school for free.  Because I was one of a small handful of people who were going there for free, I was constantly harassed for not being a rich kid.  Knowing that this isn't how christians should behave, I began to question some things.  My dad's incessant skepticism of all things not-religious helped that process along.  I came to the conclusion by my teens that this wasn't the right religion, but I wasn't ready to give it up yet.  I moved along various denominations of christianity, finally stopping at Jehovah's Witnesses in my 20s.  It was while studying with them that I realized that the bible itself was flawed.  I quit their group and became a deist.  I remained a deist while all my other religious leanings fell away because I didn't understand how DNA could exist independent of the protein catalysts that form it.  I got some edumaction, and dropped that too.  I'm still a deist through wishful thinking, but honest enough to admit that there's no good reason to actively believe in a god (so I'm not really a deist, I just wish I was).