I'm religious just that my religion is nature, science, math and energy systems. I worship in the forest, my alter is the Earth floor, and I don't pray to nothing or no deity....I honor the life forces

I didn't think it made sense that an omnipotent being would create creatures in their image and then create millions of species of animals, parasites, bacteria and toxins that could kill them in so many ways.

It makes no sense. Also most if not all religions have blood on their hands, both currently and historically. The christians, muslims and Jews have all killed each other for thousands of years.

I just like to avoid cultures that engage in murder or war in general.

The main reason I don't believe in magic is because I have enough education to understand where that kind of thinking comes from, but that education also brings the knowledge that believing in magic is not a sufficient definition of religion. Religion is just whatever discipline people use to maintain their sanity in an insane world. A thorough rejection of magical thinking alone does not necessarily provide protection from depression or fear or anxiety. Healthy, science-based practices exist which can do that, and from a historical perspective, they should rightly be categorized as religion. If my tool isn't doing what I need it to do, I get a better tool. I don't say tools are useless. We don't need the two thousand year old dirty bathwater but we very much do still need that baby.

I grew up or out of it.

Because I can't stomach bullshit.

Well shit, there’s like 9000 interpretations of religion. How can I be sure of the right one?

I’ve never been one who just believes something, just because you should or something like that. I can’t be religious. I think it’s a biological impossibility with me. My skeptical, critical and curious brain won’t let me. I’m so curious, sometimes I wonder what it would be like to believe in a specific religion, but then my brain shorts out and says, “but what about this contradiction and this irrational concept?” When we play games as a child we invent rules and stipulations that are based on nothing really and we just play the game and have fun. Maybe that’s religion. It’s just children-people still deep in gameplay. I get why the game is fun. It doesn’t take much thinking, you just hop, skip, and think yourself into a magic wonderland. Drugs can do that too. Ancient Hindus valley Brahmans in northern India (in the vedas- roots of Hinduism) did soma, a type of drug. Whatever gives you that special feeling, man. Do it, but be careful. Moderation. Yin Yang.

I just can not fathom a "God" would want to micro-manage a bunch of lowly humans. Personally, I would think he/she/it would have better things to do with its time.

I've always had issues with certain logic gaps as a kid (why doesn't god appear at all when he did frequently in the bible; why are gays shunned when clearly god made them that way; why do good things happen to bad people), bUT I kept it going... then the altar boy-priest thing happened and I was like "I'm out!"

Truths don't obey borders, religion does. If Einstein could, almost by himself, think up accurate laws for the universe. How come humanity as a collective can't do the same with any god/deity? It doesn't hurt my father was raised atheist and my mom was agnostic (but is now born again Christian)

Control of my choices that i will decide the pos and neg my self and decide myself! I don't need an invisible idea (god) to decide an in general right and wrong without details calculated! I am diferent than you and understand different situations and consequences! Then use it the way i want to!

I value honesty and Truth.

When In church I noticed they were promoting things that did not agree with reality as truth. I figured the entire religion thing was BS. That and the fact that there is no testable evidence to confirm any supernatural assertion such as there is a god.

I came to the realization that faith is no virtue--it is, in fact, a piece of bad code. Having lost faith in faith, the spell was broken, and anything that relied on it disintegrated.

Religion is too full of hypocrisy, and I don’t need a book of fiction to teach me how to be a good person.

That's hard to say, it was so long ago that I quit seeing truth or value in religion. I know part of it was Christian/Catholic religion's views at the time on gays, feminism, abortion as well as euthanasia and the glorification of suffering for the sake of eternal reward or improvement of one's character. In the face of those things, it just didn't hold up the way it used to for me. This was in the early 80s. Maybe seeing the rise of the religious right and the Moral Majority along with TV preachers added to my distrust and cynicism.

I also saw too much phoniness and hypocrisy at the personal/individual level among believers, but that was just young idealism and being naive because when I got older and started attending Unitarian churches I saw just as much of that. Now I know that's just how many or most humans are, believers or not.

The same reason l don't believe in Santa Claus.

I have read lots of storys but the bible is not my fav as it makes little sence in the real world .?x

I do not believe there are any gods! No other reason.

I just never made any sense to me. It was only when I had to did I read Bertrand Russell and others. I only learned logical refutations of religions to counter the "logical" arguments in support of them.

It is the other way round: there is no reason to be religious or believe in any of those religious fairy tales, so why would i?

As a child the bible stories didn't make sense.

when I was small my parents never made me go to sunday school whereas every other child in our small town went to one of the local ten churches. Because the streets would be deserted with no one to play with (1953 we played in the street -very few cars or the local bomb-site). So I went to sunday school with different friends a different church each time - methodist, congregationalist, baptist high anglican etc. Because I was an avid reader of any book I could get my hands on I had got through most of the minor classic childrens books and I found the teachings somehow incomplete - not really enough information in the story and a bit dry - I sometimes liked the people who told the stories their faces all aglow and I wondered if mine would ever glow like that - I could see that they were getting something out of it that I wasn't. And still it was better than kicking my heels alone on an empty street.So somehow I never got the connectedness that others had. Also I had a bi polar mother and a depressed, war hero, father neither of whom could cope with me - So my retreat was into books till I left home at 15 y.o. Nothing in the bible spoke to me at all and it all seemed pretty lame compared to the reality of my life and the books I read from the library.

The complete lack of any hint of evidence to suggest the possibility of the existence of any kind of deity.

1: Lack of evidence. 2: Lack of any reason for there to be a god, since purely naturalistic process explains pretty much everything.(If there is a god, what does S/he/it actually 'do'? 3: My degree focused on evolutionary biology, which included the work of Dawkins. 4: None of the holy books make sense - they cannot all be right, but they can all be wrong.

It's all bullshit and brainwashing of the young. Critical thinking exposes the charade.