At what age did you grow out of religion?

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>>132221409

20-21, somewhere around there.

around 14, but then i wasn't and edgy tenageer anymore so I'm catholic again

>>132221409
around 16-17 thanks to history class

13, then I outgrew atheism at 22

I grew up atheist/ apatheist and did'nt even know what religion was until I was 5 or so, when the babysitters had me brought out to a lake and dunked me underwater and they were always talking to me about Jesus. I was confused as hell.

I told my parents and they just thought it was hilarious and had to explain to me.

>>132222016
too late, now you're one of us

better question, at what age you surrender to be a beta cuck?, worshiper of a bitch

>>132222222

OP is 100% shill

I never really grew into it. I was fortunate enough to not have my parents push it on me.

>>132221409
Became an atheist around 15, but now at 22 while I don't believe in god I now see the benefits of christian/traditional values.

23-24 but never really believed anyway..

>>132221409
"Grew" out of religion at 16, then when babbys first autistic athirst experiment was over I finally matured and put my faith back in god and his Catholic church

I dropped all belief at 17, but I don't think I had truly believed since I was like 12. I knew the science and was willfully ignorant.

When I was a 12 year old edgelord. Now I'm Christian just like my ancestors. Atheism is seriously retarded and the cause of great suffering.

>>132221716
>he fell for the christian larp bait

>>132221409
The older I get the more faithful I become. I didn't live a good life for a long time and I've seen some shit. Jesus is Lord.

>>132222765
same

>>132221409
Grew up a Christian. Became an atheist because of Jew propaganda and "muh scientific theories." Was shown a sign by God, irrefutable evidence that He exists. Became devout Christian, and have no doubts about His existence.

>>132221409
11, the old testament supernatural stuff stopped once man got wiser. We have smartphones and nothing to capture anything like the levels of burning bushes that give commandments, rainbows as a covenant to not flood the Earth again, parting the red sea, serpents and deception. The imagination of man is a powerful thing, meme magic is real though.

>>132221987
>outgrew atheism
Traumatic brain injury? My head hit the pavement going 50 miles an hour. After I was declared legally dead for 5 minutes, I had a near death experience that convinced me there is nothing beyond death and I have been OK with that ever since. I have a new sense of peace and connectedness now. I can't help but laugh when people say they believe in gods and demons.

>>132223306
>irrefutable evidence that He exists.
Share it with us, Sparky!

>>132221987
Are you just saying that to please /pol/?
Did you really go back to religion?
I wish I could but when I see someone talking about how good has a plan and loves us and whatnot boy is that shit silly

>>132222526
>Look everyone please come give me (You)s
>Not sure what a shill is but I see it used a lot

>>132224109
That's a rather simplistic way to think about it.

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>>132221409
Around 13 came back at 19.

>>132221409
I grew out of religion when I was 12 and then I grew out of atheism when I was 16. Now I live a happy Christian life going to church with my qt conservative Christian GF

>>132221409
I stopped believing in god around 12, felt sad after it

Never held any religious beliefs, but when i went to confirmation school at 15 and started to think about religions and christianity thats when i became atheist. During that camp i debated alot of the staff and my peers and about the stuff i found ludicrous, later i convinced my parents to leave church and also in uni i have gotten 1 friend to do it a well ; D

>>132221409
About 12, came back in 20x harder at 20.

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>>132224579
Ignore all that lovey dovey shit.
Think of it this way, go to church because you dont believe. Go there looking.

Christianity is based in 'free-will', human agency...liberty. God gave us the ability to choose what we do. This is his greatest gift, past life itself. Even if you dont believe in God, believe in Free Will.

People think religion is about coercing people, or forcing people to do something. No, that is the opposite of free will. Any religion/govt/people who do this are evil. Simple as that. A forced act of good (free health care) is not an act of good.

God teaches us what is good, and then gives us agency to hopefully choose good.

>>132225624

nice you are a real awesome guy to take that away from people

>>132225267

Praise the lord

Had my doubts at the age of 13 and became atheist at the age of 14.
I was coward about my atheism at first. Still not many people know I'm an atheist but I signal it a lot.

>>132221409
Lol, at 20 I grew In.

>>132221409
Deconverted from atheism at around 17.

Somewhere around 6-7. The entire concept didn't make sense to, and 20 years later still doesn't

>>132225770
I'd argue God gave us the ability to choose what to do with out lives, not necessarily free will, as we can't do anything and everything we would like to.

>>132222765
Also my view of religion.

15

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turned atheist at 12 then became agnostic around 18

I've never believed in a god, but I officially renounced religion when I was 21.

The bastards were taking at least 15€ out of my pay check every month.

>>132226155
I got my parents to stop going to church too. So I probably made 5 people atheist. Priests raping kids and then all the cover ups kind of made it an easy battle though. The Catholic Church looks like shit.

>>132222765
This, except three and four years earlier respectively.

Atheist + Christian values = ubermensch. Abortion is a-okay though :^)

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>>132221409
>single post by OP
>pirate flag
Sage this shit.

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>>132221409
Both my parents are atheists so I never believed in any religion.
But if there appears some crusade I would join ofc

>>132221409
the real question here is when did you grow back into religion?

>>132222765
I'm similar to this, I was raised with no specific pressure to believe in anything, and so the label atheist has always been appropriate for me. It was around 31-32 I started to see the benefit of traditional values.

It has nothing to do with spiritualism or "god", those are laughable concepts which no skeptical and rational person accepts as true.

But all the data points to a traditional lifestyle being the one most likely to bring happiness and fulfillment.

>>132221409
Was always in an irreligious family, but finally grew out of Atheism around 13-14.
I still don't even remotely believe in God, but I believe the world would be far better off with Christians in power than with (((Atheists))).
This is the true redpill that fedora-niggers refuse to swallow.

>>132227525
Going to church doesnt make you religious or a believer in God you dumb tater-nigger. Conflating the two is dim. Sort of like parents who take instructions from their 16 year old kid.

At 13. At 18 I started to believe again.

>>132221409 (You)
>asking /pol/ when they grew out of Christianity
>board is literally known as a god loving fanatic board around the boards

>>132222765
This

>>132228330
Isn't religious
Goes to church

That's American tier stupid. Well played. Lmao. Sage

>>132225770
I've been to church many times when I was younger though

>>132221409
In the 7th grade I think. Grew out of atheism when I was 16

>>132226748
>we can't do anything and everything=no free will
really?

>>132221409
When I was around 16-17. Then I built a time machine with my edgelord atheist science powers and went back in time when I was 12 and believed in space Jesus and christian values again.

Wtf, I love Christ now.

>>132224109
>Traumatic brain injury?
+1
I also had one and think in a very similar way since then
>>132221409
16

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>>132221409
around 7 y/o.

My mom tried to shove Cuckstianity and Cucksus down my throat butmy IQ surpassed 100 at that age so I didn't get scammed.

feel sorry for the poor low IQ bastards who got brainwashed though... not their fault but their parents'

Never been religious, and I've only grown farther and farther away from it. God is just a name for the forces of physics and the universe.

>>132228608
No you and your family went to church NOT because you believed in shit. You went because you were too dim to make your own decisions and wanted to be a good catholic irishman. This is what Americans think of you stupid people.

>>132228619
You were forced to go. Give it a go when it is your own idea. If for any reason but to just to think about shit.

>>132221409
11 then became religious for real at about 23 once I stopped being an edgelord and started reading philosophy

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>>132221409
>At what age did you grow out of religion?
About 10 years before I realized "religion" was the very thing Jesus came here to destroy, and grew into a genuine faith in Jesus.

Based a(nti)theists don't exist.

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>>132221409
More like, At what age did you grow back into religion

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>>132230313
That's a cool sounding movie, but unfortunately more of the same.

All religions can't be right. Unless you have an extremely shallow and narrow view of them. This is more works-based "salvation".

But cool story though.

>>132230585

Exactly.

>>132221409
Never have. Yashua is the truth, the way & the life....there is no lie in him...

>>132221716
Catholicism is in the top 3 worst Christianity variants

When I gotz my first boner - so.....7

about 16, then when i hit 21 i grew up and became Christian again

Started in childhood, was fully atheist by 15.

>>132221409
Born into a totally non-religious family. Santa was my god until at the tender age of around 7-8 when I found out he didn't exist. That was a traumatic day indeed.

Jesus found me at 21

>>132230478
>>132230585
Second to last one is clearly the most redpilled.
God is not real, but """his""" teachings are extremely crucial in order to build a healthy society.

>>132221409
When my Priest's dick grew inside me

>>132224109

>I have a new sense of peace and connectedness now.

That's called brain damage.

I think some of my earliest memories were of how retarded church was. Do people honestly believe that 2000 years ago a deity sent his child to earth to die for our sins?

>>132229549
Can't even read lmao that flag

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Your God has no power over me, and should it come a time in which I die and there is hell I shall be happy, for it is where all my friends will be.

>>132221409
LMAO at all the edgelords in this thread trying to put their eggs in multiple baskets.

"WELL GOD ISN'T REAL BUT CHRISTIANITY IS IMPORTANT TO SOCIETY"

Accepting Christ is the final redpill. Anything less and you're not there yet.

>>132234756
It''s a thread completely unrelated to politics that drives a wedge between the users here.
>1 post by this ID

It's to make you demand permanent IDs.

There are no genuine Christians on the Internet. Why do you think all of them are edgy teens looking to be annoying over all else?

>>132233613
Are you Voltaire? Weird that God's teachings are real even though He isn't supposedly.

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About 20. Feels good man
>Not putting your faith and trust in the strength of the human spirit

>>132221409
>At what age did you grow out of religion?
What you mean of course is "what year did you buy into the bullshit religion called atheism?"

>>132221409
Never grew out of it because I never got involved in it in the first place.

The first time I heard the word "God" was in kindergarten because my parents never told me about it.

The kids told me what it was and I laughed it off.

>>132221987
Same. Left at 14. Depressed and nihilistic at 22. Jordan Peterson videos brought logic and rational to the bible.

>>132235136
I've heard this cop out countless times.

You and your friends will be miserable indeed. Hell is a place utterly void of God and his love. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, and the memory of what you have written here will haunt you into eternity.

>>132236347
It's not a copout, avoiding a commitment or responsibility. I take full responsibility for my actions, and if I deserve hell for not believing in a magic figure in the sky then I would never want to love such a manic dicator.

>>132221409
around 14
then I grew out of atheism around 16

>>132221409
Never actually believed in anything. Parents didn't take me to church/synagogue (I'm half ethnic kike) so I was never taught it. Still just don't see a point.

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>>132236347
When you think about it, isn't most of the world going to hell anyway? There's like, a billion Christians on earth, out of seven billion people. And even of those one billion Christians, you guys can't decide who is right. Hell is going to be crowded with God's love®

>>132221409

15 or so

>If going to heaven is your incentive for being a decent person, you're not a decent person

>>132225770
>God gave us the ability to choose what we do.
And then he punishes us for doing what he doesn't want? Sounds like a bit of a dick...

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what scene is this picture imitating

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>>132237093
No gf Tuesday

>>132225770
>it's all about that free will, man
>doing good things because you were forced to isn't doing good
>oh by the way, you will suffer eternal punishment if you aren't a good boy

>>132236880
This it is just the edgy teenage phase,but if you are severly retarded you will keep the mind of a teenager for the rest of your life.

>>132221409
Never grew out, my faith just transformed.

>>132221409
Never had it. Identified as christian but I thought everyone knew it was fake but was just playing along. Which probably isn't far from accurate

About 4 years old

>>132236753
I definitely don't want to argue you further into disbelief. I understand what you mean, and condescension aside, I used to believe the same. However simplifying the omnipotence and omnipresence of God and the overwhelming evidence that points towards his sovereignty to the idea of a "magic figure in the sky" speaks volumes about where your heart is.

>>132236966
Can't decide who's right? That's a blatant and misleading strawman coupled with deliberate false causation. Jesus is right, and any "Christian" worthy of being called a Christian takes up his cross and admits this.

>>132224389
That's the issue, a religious man can see something extraordinary, but nobody would believe him, so why try to describe your experience with anyone who is not of your faith, They would simply never understand,

>>132237432
>oh by the way, you will suffer eternal punishment if you aren't a good boy

life wouldnt be fun if we wouldnt suffer eternal punishment for being bad boy

but you have free will during your life

>>132237039
I think that the reality is that we punish ourselves with god as the personification of this process, a bit like saturn on kronos. Mind you, my belief system is hardly canon christianity, but is at least theist and protestant flavoured.I see the Bible as a great bunch of stories and warnings about the folly of man. Ymmv

>>132237432
One will only "go to hell" if they are stubborn in their ways, utterly unwilling to admit anything but "I know best".

Instead, the way of truth is to admit you don't know how to do right, no matter how hard you try, what you thought was right have turned out to be filthy rags, and that you want to know the one who does know what is right.

>>132228195
Thats load of crap, its funny how christians that always have been and still mostly are against science stats and data are now trying to use them as justification. Please provide that data you are referring to which states traditional religious values and lifestyle lead to higher rates of happiness.
Lets take a look at world happines report:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report#2017_report

The common denominators with the top 10 countries are embracing socialistic policies like free healthcare and universities, technologically advanced societies and much less religious than average western country.

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>>132237825
Why don't you go visit one of the many Christian threads and ask them which denomination is right, and which one is the church of Satan? It's not like we had a reformation over this very thing

I realized Church was a bunch of BS and a giant waste of time very early. As early as I can remember, maybe 5 or 6 years old. Never looked back.

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>20 fucking 17
>Not believing in Santa Clause
You fags are going to he- I mean, getting coal in your stockings

18, then I got cancer in my testical and it spread to my lungs so I had plenty of time to meditate on death. Listened to a fuck ton of Alan Watts and Terrance McKenna and I guess I believe in reincarnation now.

About 2 years ago, I am 24 now. Life is a lot more hopeless and bleak but I just can't go back. Sorry, Jesus.

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>>132221465
THIS.

Or just pic related.

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>>132221409
I "grew" out of religion at age 12 because that's when puberty hits and you start to become a rebel. At the age of 19 I realized that I was what's wrong with this nihilist society, and became a Christian again like my ancestors would want.

at 11 yo my church encouraged me to leave so that i would not be bullied in high school for being religious, at 19 i realised that my local church was as cucked as possible (since leaving they elected a transgender lesbian woman priest) and at 20 i'm still searching for the true sect.

>>132240473
holy shit dude what a coincedence?

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>>132240473
Technically wouldn't your ancestors want you to be Pagan?

>>132240183
It's not bait. It's deliberately disruptive nonsense to make us demand change. All day without end it's
>1 post with this ID
Topic after topic of total nonsense. It's to limit the amount of constructive conversation to the bare minimum.

>>132221987
>>132222765
This, although I believe in an omnipotent power beyond this dimension.

>>132221409
Was too sane to ever get into it.

the world would be a much better place without religion

>>132223018
Weren't your ancestors pagans?

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>>132221409
14. I came back to the Church when I was 26.

>>132221409
Dumb bait.

You don't grow out of religion, you grow into it. People only "leave" religion for a decade or two and the go back to it once they realize atheism is fucking retarded. Sage this bullshit.

>10-12 agnostic
>13-14 full atheist
>20-22 spiritual after psychedelics
>27 understand the almost supernaturally inspired wisdom of the Bible, getting close to a come to Jesus moment

>>132241300
>>132241148
It's always Hispanics

xD

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>>132221409
I never did.

Atheists are a major part of every problem.

>>132221409
14 and then got back to religion at 22

>>132241764
Stop committing idolatry by posting a picture of Jesus.

>>132240473
your ancestors were pagan and didn't worship a kike on a stick.

nihilistic and edgy for sme time around 14 and found faith when I was 17

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>>132221409
Never, my love for Christ the Saviour remains even in on the darkest and brightest days.

>>132222765
>while I don't believe in god I now see the benefits of christian/traditional values.
Definitely this.

>>132221409
the same time I grew into BBC ;^)

>>132242098
It's idolatry if you pray to this picture and say "this is my god" but having or posting pictures is np.

>>132242345
>4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Please actually look at the 10 commandments

I stopped believing around 14 after my dad had a stroke and my mom was diagnosed with cancer. Recently I have been studying Vedanta and Sanatana dharma.

>>132221409
I was an Atheist until 17. Now a Christian and would never go back to the meaningless void that is nihilism

>>132242440
Jesus walked the Earth you mong.

>>132242761
Jesus is God and God is above.

>>132242104
Our ancestors who built the civilization we have today were Christian, with remnants of paganism mixed in. Those are the traditions we know and should hold onto. You know nothing of paganism but that little bit which has survived today, and what you read in history books. Paganism is not part of you, and trying to go back to it is a futile and meaningless task.

>>132221409
I was never born into it.

Christianity is the most amoral schlock ever created by men to control stupid people. And it works.

>>132243066
>It's the finnish atheist who comments on every religion thread
*tips fedora*

>>132229549
>American
>Calling others stupid

>>132243129
Maybe my 5th post on /pol/.

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I grew into religion at age 14, that's when I finally accepted the lord

>>132243211
Either another finn or a lot of finns are godless heathens

>>132222765
I dont imagine myself going to heaven when i die for a god that die for but there is nothing wrong with be kind to people and do good things because they are just nice things to do for others. The bible says lots of things i don't like and its hard to live up to it standards but i just try and take away the part of being kind to one another and trying not to judge people.

>>132243211
Americans are mostly brown people now. It's acceptable for brown people to have religion. Leave them be.

Also the historical figure called Jesus was black.
>Dark skin and wooly hair
Is how he is described. That's a black man.

>>132243273
all finns are godless, all they do is drink and shitpost online

>>132221409
as soon as i realized there is no one coming to save me

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I was an atheist until ~20-21, then I started to doubt atheism. Looked a lot into Christianity, but now I consider the pagan way since I identify way more with that way of thought and philosophy.

I been converted to the Joe Rogan podcasts. They are actually pretty good, as long as it's not about weed.

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>>132243211

It shows

>>132237039

Hell (which is what I assume you're referring to) wasn't God's design. God would very much like it if you chose him (This choice being exemplified by following his code of goodness) but he won't force you, however he won't accept you because you turned your back on him. Not choosing God is the only unforgivable sin. He can't force you to go to Heaven if you didn't choose Heaven, as it voids free will.

As such, Hell is simply the alternative.

>>132233613
Every stage is "clearly the most red pilled" when you're in said stage. Keep going anon you've almost reached the end

>God allegedly has almighty power so if he wanted to he could physically and mentally reveal himself to everyone on planet Earth
>but he doesn't
>So if you don't believe in God then you'll go to hell
>0 (zero) proof that hell exists

>God is entirely good, benevolent, kind and knows everything
>Yet god lets bad things and sufferings of all kinds, from tiny sufferings to enormous sufferings happen when God would allegedly know about these horrible things in advance while religious belief states that God is in control and good, kind and benevolent
>yet god chooses to (allegedly) knowingly let bad things and sufferings happen

wow nice argument

>>132246288
God doesn't cause suffering, people do.
>but he could stop it
Then we wouldn't have free will.
>but that means he's not omnipotent
This is a common misunderstanding of God's omnipotence. God's omnipotence doesn't include logical contradictions. He can not make a square round, just as he can't have free will and avoid suffering completely at the same time. He is omnipotent within a logical framework.

>>132221409
I don't think I ever took to religion in the first place desu. I'd participate in the rituals, but they never meant anything to me.

Before anyone asks about the flag, just because I'm no true believer doesn't mean I can't agree with many of the teachings and appreciate the writings as parable. So it fits better than the other selection flags and I prefer having a selection flag than using my geographical flag.

That all being said I'm still open to religion, I've just never found something that struck me profoundly. So in that regard while I'm still technically an atheist I'm more of an agnostic.

More or less >>132222765

I'm not an atheist, but organized religion was obviously retarded to me around 5th grade or so. A bunch of likely pedos larping that they are eating the body of their Jewish 'wife's son' God, just laughably silly. God wanting to send people to hell for not accepting Christ when he hasn't given any evidence of Christ's divinity, while also forgiving pedophiles and rapists as long as they repented, also rubbed me the wrong way. Way to teach kids that actions don't have consequences, be as big a piece of shit as you want. As long as you tell Jesus you're sorry, it's ok.

The whole thing is just stupid. Mormon or Scientology stupid. Why would god care if anyone loved him? And if they didn't, why get butthurt and send them to eternal damnation? What a sensitive ass tbch.

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>>132221619
Same.
I waited for a few years, believing the people that said it was due to "muh edge".
It's not.

Nationalism is fully compatible and even complete with atheism.
Your entire allegiance can be for your people.