Not but the church helped...

The Bible convinced me that God doesn't exist. The OT prophecied 1 coming of their Messiah. The NT switched it to 2 comings. Jesus even tried to fulfill the OT prophecies of 1 coming but couldn't. He blamed his failure on the Jews' disbelief in him. After realizing Jesus couldn't be the Messiah, I tried to prove my findings wrong by studying and outlining the Bible, cover to cover. During this time I came across many things that caused me to be an atheist.

Yep.

Figured out the bible was BS when I was in early grade school. Contradictions with reality convinced me the bible was no different then any other DC or Marvel comic.

Yes--once you start reading it, it just makes no sense & God turns out to be a huge jerk.

The 'Great Book of the Goat-herders Guide to the Galaxy' a.k.a the bible, went a little way to reinforcing my Atheism as did my studying Theology and Comparative modern Religions, BUT, I was an Atheist well before I came to know what an Atheist was.
I questioned everything that they triedt o teach me in Sunday School and School Scripture Classes, go expelled for doing so therefore that was the commencement of my journey into reality and Atheism.

Well for me it was my awareness and exposure on science from my teenage years.

Absolutely. Spent 6 years reading everything I can,pro an con. I like Grimm better
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The bible was actually something that "enhanced" whatever beliefs I held at the time. While I was a Christian, biblical passages were a source of inspiration for me as a sign that the religion understood what I was doing and who I was. It wasn't until I started my major in History that I started objecting to inconsistencies between those passages, as well as the importance of the passages that people don't quote as much about slavery and self-depreciation. Eventually the bible became a source of atheism for me, but it took time to get there.

I grew up in Denmark where the protestant peoples church covers some 95% of the people. The citizens are very secular though so it's mostly the basic functions of major life event that are practiced - like babtising, marriage, funerals that make people go to church. Basically everybody knows that the myths you find in the bible are just that. Personally I never started believing and am baffled by those who do. I feel Christianity is so nasty and oppressive .I see it as something the rulers of Europe could use to control the population. They had a hard time getting people to pay taxes but people would be happy to pay say 10% of their income to the church and voluntarily believe that they are bad people. In countries like Denmark and Germany there is a church tax that is part of the income tax.

I had an interesting experience as a child. My parents weren’t particularly religious but they did go through the motions and forced me go catechism every Saturday morning. It was the very last place I wanted be and I thought that these people were nuts. What really nailed it at a very early age was that our next door neighbor was a Southern Baptist Minister. He really was a sweet man. I went church with his children and his family sometimes and the two churches were completely different. I thought right away, how can they both be right? I never believed but in my late teens I read the Old Testament cover cover just make sure I hadn’t missed anything and nope, these people were nuts!! I was lucky I escaped! ?

Not the bible per se...but the arguments against the bible made me skeptical

Seminary, studying religious history and thinking about shit made me agnostic. The Bible definitely played an essential role, I might not have made the leap away from faith without that idiocy.

No. The idea of an eye in the sky is what made me disbelieve.

Church and the bible were negative experiences for me. My college studies in Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion really opened a door and I tiptoed through, at first, to many discoveries.

Partially. It was super hypocritical and I kept poking holes in it all growinf up at church. I have a gay brother and I think thats what fully sent me over the edge. I couldn’t believe that god who apparently “created us” and knew our entire lives and choices ahead of time would then condemn his children to hell WHEN HE MADE US THAT WAY AND KNEW WE WOULD BE A CERTAIN WAY. I also hated how people often picked which oarts of the bible to listen to and ignored others. Condemn gay people but eat lobster and pork just fine and get divorced with no consequences.

My mother died suddenly I tried to find comfort in faith, I read the bible. Got to the end and thought wow, that is a lot of hooey. So i read other doctrines and sacred writings of other religions, came out the other side a solid atheist. I had always only really half believed and assumed that if I ever took the time to read the bible I'd truly believe, and wow did that go the other way.

Splitting hairs I know as I understand your meaning but....

How does reading the bible convince someone that Thor doesn't exist? Or that Hinduism isn't a valid belief?

Reading the bible certainly helped to convince me that it was nothing but bullshit, which knocked out all of the Abrahamic religions, but didn't make me an atheist.

The fact that I've never seen any good evidence that anything supernatural actually exists is what makes me an atheist.

No, the opposite: common sense

The stories in the Bible that are contradicted by reality are what made me an athiest - specifically the account of the flood. There would be a lot of evidence if something like that had happened and the evidence is not there. Therefore the Bible is false in a nutshell.

Think it was being brought up Roman Catholic that did it for me...Sealed the deal anyway.

It certainly didn't tempt me to change my mind!

It was definitely the catalyst

I was born an Atheist.
Though I had to fake it for protective colorization for most of my childhood.
Some of my childhood friends I have found on FB are really shocked when I mention that I have always been an Atheist.

"But you almost always won the bible verse quoting"

"Yeah."

The Bible had nothing to do with me becoming an atheist. I just came to the conclusion at about the age of 16 that it didn’t make any sense for a god to exist. But that wasn’t a very good reason at the time. I got older and more educated about things and stuck with reality. And to follow up what I thought as a kid, no holy book explains how it happened except by pure magic. Creationists need to think of how a god could create a universe from nothing. It’s questions like how, why, what, when, and where. That lead me to the atheist position. Just questions and the terrible answers that follow.

Short Answer; Yes. Long Answer; It was mostly because it was f-cking boring as a child. As I grew, I developed a deep doubt of everything, even the value of life itself. Really screwed me up. Anyways, once I hit High School I had torn through the thing a few times and found that the more I read the more I felt like I made the right decision. Nowadays, I enjoy some of the stories but write it off as old and spiritually valueless drivel.