At what age did you become an atheist?

17

Sometime around early teenage years. Grew out of it in late teens.

More like what age I grew out of it

>>72958245
15-16 something

N/A

0
I was born rational

Never cared about organized religion. Seems silly. Not giving a fuck must be called agnosticism.

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>not born unreligious
East Germany stronk.

I was always an atheist.

>>72958245
Age 7, after I didn't wake up with a new bike and a playstation even though I prayed to get them the night before

I didn't. I stopped practicing though when I was 10.

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>>72958245
My dad has always been an atheist
Mom is a devout christian.

Mom tried to raise me as one
But dad undermined it, telling me in secret to play along with my moms bullshit, the cultist parties and such I'll have later will get me presents, and mom thinks she won.

And when it came to it, I always sought "facts and practicalities" from my dad, and emotional support from my mom. So I believed my dad 100% when he said that religion is bullshit.

I cant remember a time I believed in a god.

>inb4 kids RP-ing conservative christians without ever having opened a bible show up

I never learned to be religious. Repeated some rites as a small child but did not understand their significance.

>>72958335
samee

Never been religious.

>le "being an atheist is rational" meme

Everytime. Do you seriously not get that devout BELIEF that there are no god-like entities imperceptible to human senses is the same as devout BELIEF to the contrary?

>>72958802
>STD ANS #1
Lack of beliefs is not a belief.

>>72958802
Russel's teapot lad.

>>72958802
That's not how empirical investigation works. Existence has to be proven, not lack thereof.

>>72958511
what happens in northeastern Bavaria?

>>72958245
0. The concept of religion is foreign to me.

>>72958907
All of Bavaria used to look like that, but those are the most rural, disconnected regions that are taking the longest to catch up with secular views. All other parts of Bavaria have had some degree of connectivity to an economical centre and cultural exchange.

>>72958245

0.

Then, when I growed up, I realized that I'm tantrist-agnostic.

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>>72958846
>>72958852
>>72958864
4U

Both gnostic categories are equally retarded.

>>72959023
I just looked at random photos of some places there (for example, the town of Cham), it looks pretty damn comfy 2bh

>>72958245
Like all preople I was born as one.

I grew up in a home where we didn't go to church cause my dad is lazy and my mom hates the clergy but the older I get the more I want to go but don't for they would mock me

12 or earlier.

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>>72958245
I haven't gone to church for around 20 years.

>>72958802
Contrary to what you might believe, atheists typically aren't what you are describing.
Though, I can understand why you would think this way if you spend a lot of time on the internet.
There really isn't such a thing as an atheist priest or activist.
Most really just keep to themselves.
After all it is just the LACK of theism, or religion. I've known people for years.
I've gotten to know them. It's so rarely brought up that sometimes I'll know them for 2 years before they even hint that they are an atheist.
I honestly can't tell if this is bait or not.

16

I became an atheist around age 11, and then I LARPed as a Christian apologist until probably age 16 out of pure contrarianism.

I was never indoctrinated by my parents and when I got familiar with the concept of religion, I couldn't believe it. I've always been an atheist.

>>72959134
>can't even read your own chart

>>72959156
Bavaria actually has some very archaic spots like this shrine of the virgin mary that is still so popular because people speak of apparitions and miracles/good stuff happening to them after they prayed there that they return to leave painted votive tablets in great numbers.
In the south way shrines are actually in use.

>>72958245
Never.

>>72959258
?

All I'm saying is that belief systems are stupid when applied to something that may well exist outside the realm of human observance. Empirics has no place if such an entity does exist outside this realm.

born and raised atheist (I'm Turkish)

but I do believe in a god, just not in religion, I'm just a superstitious lad

>>72959451
The weird thing about religion isn't that people belief there are transcendent entities like gods. Its that they arbitrarily ascribe motives and personalities and demands to them and then act as if they 'had' to perform according to these arbtrirary made up demands.
Its one thing to belief the invisible pink unicorn exists, its a entirely different one to put out a bowl of milk for it every day and not understand when other people find that kind of crazy.

>>72958245
Who is she?

>>72959562
They're an even weirder bunch. Yes, they're retarded too, of course.

>>72959451
By the definition of empiric rationality, the only rational position is the upper left, which is labeled atheist, while you act as if all atheists are in the upper right, which is not the case. That's just something fucked up Americans do.

I wonder if this has any connection with people having some consensus that the world is heading toward a downward spiral.

>>72959757
>Americans only claim there is no god

Good one m8

>>72959134
The fact that this retard internet meme of "agnostic atheism/theism" actually took off is what kills all of my faith in there being a god because this design is clearly not intelligent.
Its such stupid snowflake term when just Agnostic describes it PERFECTLY WELL. A- Gnostic=Without Gnosis aka. Without assumption of secret knowledge (about the existence of gods). A Atheist and Theist are both Gnostic because they claim to have knowledge on the existence of gods. THATS IT. There is no need to invent a bunch of special terms for it until it looks like the Pick Your Gender slider on a Social justice forum.

How do I get back into religion? Is it okay for me to attend church and do all the regular christian things even if I don't really believe in it?

>>72959451
>something that may well exist outside the realm of human observance
That's a very easy way out.

>>72959923
Sorry it's not efficient enough for you Hans

>>72958245
0

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>>72958511
>being godless heathens

I think this weakens your cultures

"""cultures""" that is

>>72959880
Anti-theism and other such fedoraisms is indeed mostly widespread among Americans, probably as a counter-reaction and counterpart to the retarded evangelicals.

16 I think
Had some problems with my family afterwards though

>>72958511

based Bayern

>>72959972
No. You'll be a sacrilegist. But why christianity? You have Internet, there's plenty of religions to choose from and learn.

>>72959979
That's the stipulation that has been made for a long time.

Of course many Christians for example believe the testimonials in the bible about there being observable acts of god (e.g. god directly interacting with Moses)

>>72960015
As a wise woman said

"I stood for nothing so I fell for everything"

This is the tumor that rots the west

>>72960138
I believe in the message of christianity and in the good it does for the people who believe in it but cannot bring myself to actually believe in it.

>>72960015
No, Historically all religious just have been weakening our cultures, Including your cancerous Christianity.

>>72960029
If it is reactionary then I expect we'll see a rise in Yurop as long as the muzzie fundies are allowed to keep coming in. *tips turban*

>>72960174
I reject the assumption that glorified morality fables are the only thing one could stand for.

>>72960174
As some other woman said:

"Everyone who's right, agrees with me."

Yeah, there was no war in Europe for a long time, especially the religious one. People forgot what kind of shit war is.

14 stopped at 20 when I realised Agnosticism is the only sensible position.

>>72960242

what is your culture but chinese and japanes rape baby

>>72960197
Do you belive that there was a philosopher named Jesus ?

>huuuur duuuuur I'm atheist, check your privileges, white CIS pig xddddd

Agnostic.

12-16 like most people

Never been religious, my parents weren't, so would be a weird thing to pick up

>>72960197
That's the attitude I'll probably never understand, as a natural born believer in something.

Anyway, maybe my last post to you was too radical. Actually the notion of The Church is so wide nowaydays, that maybe even you are included. After all they're preaching that even pagan religion contain some pieces of Truth, bringing people closer to God.

>>72960330
Yes. Chinese(Confucianism), Japanese(Shinto), (You)r religious obviously weakened our culture.

>>72958245
Like 12 or 13. Then I became a believer again

Daily reminder if you broke one of those 10 g-d's rules once, you are going to hell anyways. It's simpler to despise all this prehistoric sandnigger bullshit and live your life with self-explained moral choses.

>>72960330
kek

They devised their own scripture for instance, while you only copied Latin invention and not even added a single ogonek to it. Damn, even Cherokees are smarter than you.

>>72958245
11, back to being religious at 19

>>72958335
*tip*

>>72960691
Naah, that's not what I was preached. You have to sin against The Holy Spirit. For example you can despair that you are doomed with no possibiliy of salvation. Shoo, you agent of Hell.

>most of the fedoras started being fedoras during adolescence

kek, I never needed to feel like a special snowflake so I'm not one.

>>72960693

naturally they would have come up with their own alphabet, it's about time someone in Asia did this

there's no need to add special characters to English, we don't need it, every language in europe apart from some exception uses latin script, why are you even posting an argument as flawed as this.

>>72960691
The only sin that condemns you to hell is suicide, every other one you can confess and absolve

>>72958245
About 10, then reverted back to Christianity at 16.

>>72960548

no different from any other foreign philosophy

you lot seem quite taken with it

Earlier than I remember

>>72960706
Why would you go back to being retarded?

>>72961086
Good goy cuctolic, this is not what Bible says tho.

>>72961031
>look at me everyone Im not a special snowflake

>>72961193
I hit a nerve?

I was born atheist to atheist parents. I can't really comprehend how people can believe in supernatural stuff like talking burning bushes, people walking over water or bread that turns into flesh. Do people really believe this shit to be factual?

>>72961074
Because of ąęćłńóśźż. I think every language in Europe has some sort of such alphabet modifications. And because creativity is what pushes civilization forwards.

>>72961259
Fedoraism has no special snowflake status in W. Europe since a big chunk of adolescents is already irreligious.

>>72960242
What about cheondongism which is basically "korea stronk-the spirits demand it!"

>>72961259
This >>72961345
You're the one being a snowflake

>>72961345
well, teenagers are undeveloped so I wouldn't take them seriously

>>72961405
if you say so, atheists often feel the need to mock people for their beliefs like ''you believe in an imaginary friend xddddd'' and that makes them pretty insufferable

something like 11
then stopped being one at around 21

>>72961558
Well, if you boil it down then religions are nothing but ideologies, ideas at their core and an idea is not inherently worthy of respect. If you choose to follow a dumb shit idea it's your responsibility to back it up or else get ridiculed for it.

>>72961558
>you believe in an imaginary friend xddddd
This kind of """argument""" always makes me a good laugh, because well designed and played psychodrama is good for your sanity.

Yes, I do believe in imaginary friends. So fucking what?

14

>>72961344

then why are yours so backward?

>>72961775
Nothing wrong with having imaginary friends, though it becomes a huge problem if you let them guide major decisions that affect other people, let alone things like public policy.

>>72961752
>ideas at their core and an idea is not inherently worthy of respect
why not? I don't think the truth is absolute and one is the owner of it while the rest are all wrong

>>72961775
well, if you take it like that it's ok, but I'm tired of atheists being worst than religious people wanting to convince others of their beliefs just because they don't understand what faith is

>>72961817
Because some 350 years ago we entered some Chink-like mindset of WE ARE DA BEST LOLOLOL. Of course life punished us for that. We still haven't fully recovered.

>>72961909
>huge problem
Or the imaginary friends are the carriers of a thousand generations pondering how to overcome an existentialist crisis and provide a solution, that while having some sideeffects, at least provides innate guidelines for society that worked so far and restrain people with an absolute morality in times of crisis.

A man considers himself a God, and he is right, because a God is within him. He considers himself a pig - and again he is right, because a pig is within him. But a man is very mistaken when he takes his inner pig for a God.

>>72958245
Went to Catholic school almost my whole life, ironically turned me atheist.

>>72961909
I didn't say that psychodrama cannot go wrong. All in all it's a matter of measure, which is a virtue.

>>72961992
They're just zealots who exchanged converting into for converting from, but still follow the same script of converting people. Alt-right and alt-left are close to each other, y'know.

>>72962137
Worked what so far? Current western democracies opperate on humanist principles and freedoms that had to be acquired in often bloody battles againdt religious institutions. The ideal society of the bible is the military and theocratic dictatorship of the bronze age. No answer is being provided here, it's just a cheap opt-out that stumps the mind in his search for answers.

>>72962166
Mysterious russian soul.
Why do you always have the best lines russia, how you do it?

>>72962375
>The ideal society of the bible
the bible was written like 2000 years ago, the most common mistake most people make (even religious ones) is taking it literally, when it's based on metaphors

>>72962510
You don't realize that by interpreting the bible with a historical perspective that you have already accepted something as a basic premise that was brought forth by those people that you oppose.

>>72962137
>at least provides innate guidelines for society that worked so far and restrain people with an absolute morality in times of crisis
The excesses of the wars between the societies that were devout and often fanatical about these beliefs puts a lie to this claim.
Surely some people have done good in the name of their religious conviction, but I heavily doubt that they would have been less good people if they had been non-religious, just as I doubt that the people who did terrible things in the name of their religion would have been any less vile.
Religion is a crutch designed to make people follow a political doctrine that has been handed down over generations. It has served its purpose, in good and ill, no doubt, but its not eternal and its overdue we replace it with something more time appropriate.

>>72958245
I hate orthodogs more than anything

>>72958245
around 13
Grown out of it around 18

>>72962679
yes, maybe because I don't have a dogmatic view of faith, I'm not religious myself, I have faith but not following any of he actual religions because I don't fit in any of them

around 13

When do you become an atheist if you just never believed in god to begin with?

>>72959134
>>72958802
This is a shit chart.
Atheists don't claim to "know" no god exists. It's just a conclusion arrived at by lack of evidence. There is no precise "knowing", it's just the reality that is dictated by evidence available. The opinions and supposed "belief" is irrelevant to the scientifically-derived reality. If new evidence supported the existence of deities/deity then it would be absolved as evidence would dictate theism is empirically true.

You're thinking within the scope of tribal and religious psychology.

>>72958489
Apatheism

>>72963170
Best denomination right here

>>72958245
20

>>72958802
Do you not get that devout BELIEF that there isn't an invisible dragon flying around the moon is the same as the BELIEF that there is?

>Eternally cucked by a fairytale Tier

+18

>Permanently stunted growth Tier

16-17

>Damn you was gullible Tier

12-15

>Nobody's fool Tier

9-11

>Man of reason Tier

7-8

>He who knows the truth Tier

3-6

>The Chosen One Tier

Pre birth-2

I was never an Atheist but I realized that Christianity was bullshit at 16

>>72958245
4th generation atheist

at around 7

I was never really religious. I resigned from the church when I was 18

>>72958245
born as one

Around 10, when I discovered that Santa isn't real it lead me to realization that god is a fictional character as well.

I feel like rather than being led to believing god exists, it is far more important to teach people how to believe in themselves.

Why is being atheist taken as being a special snowflake, isn't atheism the norm in today's society? It's like that at least here in the nordics.

>>72970511
It's just the US being special again and some retarded teens getting all their impulses from US media.