I was never deeply religious. My mother was raised Catholic, my father Baptist. But my mother and father split when I was very young, my mother did not attend church and did not insist that my siblings and I go. She left us to our own devices. As a result we're all over the map. Some siblings go to church, most don't but I'm the only agnostic/atheist. I just had so many questions as a child that no one could answer. I got platitudes: "God moves in mysterious ways", "Only God knows", "Pray about it and we'll see what happens".

None of that made sense to me. Not then, not now.

So many things just didn't add up for me. so many questions i had that weren't answered in a way that was actually an answer instead of the blind faith of belief.

Having religion shoved down your throat as a child by family. Then told only on sects beliefs are correct. It's our choice to believe in the bs or not. Religion is one reasons I'm still single. It's my choice on which gender I marry.

The simple answer is that I got tired of my life outcomes not being adequately explained or predicted by my religious faith, so rather than become more delusional and/or burdened by the need to constantly rationalize and attempt to reconcile those things, and rather than keep experiencing unpleasant surprises in life, I switched to a conceptual framework that rendered my life explicable again.

Religious faith is deciding in advance what's true based on what's asserted in holy books and/or by authority figures, and then crashing headlong into reality with no freedom to adjust and learn. Critical thinking, which is examining evidence and following it wherever it leads, has served me far, FAR better.

In my opinion every one is born either...assimilation into the family or group identity extinguish the flame of truth early in many....once I no longer needed superficial attachments or group identity, once I realized the historical /political / financial connection to the formation of organize religion I tune out....

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I was raised in a Christian home,not pushy it just was; love there as well. I never doubted my parents, the parishioners, the priest, I never questioned, didn’t think to.
I remained thus until about hmm.. sevenish years ago.
What started my revelation was reading Valerie Tarico. I began reading more books,reading friends Bookface posts, and questioning what I’d been taught.
I know this was an easier path as both my parents are deceased.
My sisters pray for my soul.

Seems like it happens for different reasons. Some come around to it almost from rebellion against a religious background. Others I think just start to question what they've always been told, and there are some who never had a religious background and it just makes more sense to begin with. I guess there could be many more reasons too.