I am told that I take the bible out of context. No I say. Read the words. Lol

That's how many Christians are converted to atheism.

When I first "came out" to my religious friends in college, they actually pointed out that I knew more about the bible than they did.

The ones that were indoctrinated do at least...

Omg! right i have read it 4 times cover to cover. most of my "christian " friends can't even name all the books

Know your opponent best strategy you can develope.

I love this and no matter how apparent you make this, the Bible Thumping, Gun Toting, Racist Bigots will be praising and sending thoughts and prayers for their inability to read cognizant articles and books which do not have 5000 known mistakes in translation and interpretation.

Yeah that’s pretty much how I got here. Ive had a couple Christian friends who would often ask me things about the Bible and religion in general, knowing how well educated in it I was. It was a minor shock to one of em when he realized I’m an atheist. It had never come up til one day it did, and he’s like “wait I thought you were a Buddhist?” Well yeah but there’s no god in Buddhism. “Oh...” and the questions stopped lol. He would often tell me I’m one of the smartest people he knows, so I don’t think the point was lost him though.

That's what solidified my non belief!

Yes! It is what put an end to my belief.

Reading the bible from cover to cover made me stop being a Christian.

Bible study was a big help in my de-conversion. I tell people all the time that the books of the bible were independent books. They contradict and disagree because they were not meant to be bound together as a story from beginning to end. You cannot tell believers that. Constantine wanted certain texts bound and used and others that seemed ridiculous to not be included. One common text would then work for all and the bogus books would soon be gone. The way it worked out left everyone with one great big bogus book.

It was my last and final reading of the Bible that convinced me that the entire narrative was concocted. I was brought up in a religious (school / church / social) community, where we memorized Bible verses and entire chapters, and could rattle off the names of the 66 books of the (Protestant) Bible by the 2nd grade. And yet, what a relief it was to finally arrive at the logical conclusion that the entire thing is a crock of shit—works of fiction nowhere near as good as Homer.

I can honestly say I've never read the Bible from start to finish. I've read a few lines or chapters here and there; I know the gist of a lot of the stories but not the fine details. I just don't give a shit about reading it; same for the Qur'an and Book of Mormon (I own all 3). I can't seem to make myself read any of them for too long when I know people actually believe these stories or would die over these outdated books.

Yes. This is a widely know reality. Many studies support this observation.

As I'm not that well-versed in the bible, the bigger shock to me is when I ask people I know to be Christians general knowledge questions about the bible, but they have no answer. I could ask them who or what Leviticus is and they would have no answer, yet I am wrong for not following the very book that they know remarkably little about.

That's why we are Atheists! We can see through all the bullshit .

They found out it's BS as a result of actually reading it.

Yep! Quite often atheists came from religious backgrounds & had at least some grounding in the bibble, & as they lost faith they often went to the 'source' for reinforcement, only to be further disillusioned! Many atheists see it as a part of history/mythology/psychology, & thus of some worth in that respect. & many have studied the bibble as defense against the "cherry-picking" many apologists do with their holy book!

That is very sad. That we know more about there fairy tales than they do and have enough not to believe in them. I guess religious people have lower intelligence than we do.

I was lucky, I wasn't brought up in a religious household, so essentially I've been an Atheist all of my life.

I never thought much about it until around around 2000, when the internet was on the rise, especially Youtube.
I watched a lot of debates about religion, Science, and creationism.

So I figured,I woul;dn't get involved in any debates until I read the bible all the way through.
The whole time I was thinking, are you serious, people actually believe this crap.

It reminds me of my job. They hire on kids fresh out of school with so much knowledge and no experience. I have no schooling, but have been in situations their instructors didn't tell them about. I stand back and watch...

Yep.

Not me. Even when I was a kid and was taken to church it felt wierd to me.

They only know the stuff they were spoon fed.