Never had a religion. Was born into freethinking family and I will be eternally grateful.

No epiphany. Belief just drained out of me over many years, like a slow leak in an air mattress.

The final straw was the #Metoo when I clearly saw how everything was stacked against women. The male world with it’s male god had always been treating us as less. How could this god create half of us to live in subjugation

Third grade catholic school when priest stated that those who were not catholic would go to hell.

My first one was about age 4 or 5 when the priest said if you are not baptized Catholic you will go to hell. I thought "what about the people in China" ? It was the start of a very very long process to get away from religious brainwashing.

I didn't have one.
I was lucky enough to not grown up in a religious household.
So I've been a non-believer all my life.

Eleven. My first period.

For me it was a slow process. I was raised catholic in Italy, stopped going to church at 13-14, then became pantheist, I didn’t care much though about religion. I was interested in discovering the truth though. But things changed nine years ago when I moved to the US and realized some people actually believe the hearth is 6k years old and want to teach creationism in science class. That’s when I realized how much influence over people's minds religion still has. That’s when I further investigated atheism, agnosticism and embraced them.

I was raised by devout Catholic parents who never miss a weekly mass. From very young, though, I never enjoyed going. From then I suppose I was more of a Deist -- accepting that God existed but certainly didn't think any deity would be concerned about weekly church attendance ('don't spend much time in East Texas'. My Catholic schooling only reinforced this. I even learned about evolution in fifth grade (in a Catholic school!), though I think my high school biology teacher may have 'ignored' the topic directly (he either taught it or just didn't address it; I think I would remember if he had argued that it was flawed or wrong). I didn't give up belief until one day in college I reflected on it and realized that the assumption into heaven stories (I was thinking of Jesus', but Mary's and any other would've done the trick) made no sense given that we know that heaven isn't a place in the clouds.

No epiphany. I was raised by non practicing Jews.

When I was 8 an angel came down from heaven..and whispered in my ear that the whole thing was all made up..I woke up and I was saved!! L ??

I seem to be on the other side of the coin as I was a true believer. I got out of a cult in 1983 but it took years for me to completely give up on god. I looked for a reasonable church and found none and then became agnostic and then finally came to the realization that I was an atheist around 2006. Sometimes that indoctrination is really hard to shake. Of course there was little internet then.

I was five when I figured out that Santa Claus and god aren't real.

I never really had an "epiphany". I knew, from an early age, that none of
it made any sense at all, and it was ALL bullshit.
As soon as I understood what the word "atheist" meant, I knew I was one.
Then, I actually read the whole bible, and was completely convinced that I
was right all along.

My parents are both agnostics and they brought me up to be the same. I have never felt an emptiness that only a god could fill, nor have I ever felt an urge to follow the brainwashed masses.
I have always equated prayer with making wishes prior to blowing out candles.
My maternal grandmother believes. I can vividly remember her attempts to talk to me about her god as a toddler, and thinking "Grandma is a loon."

I kind of drifted into doubt as I was growing up. Being raised as a reform Jew, I felt mainly connected to the culture but not the religion. Did some questioning on my own, but nothing religious stuck. And it was probably after 9/11 when I lost faith altogether. I believe there's a universal energy that keeps us connected as a human race, but it's not god or anything in a religious sense.

around age 10 when I realized the abuse that humans did to our animal brothers and sisters .....and the argument that "Gawd put them here for us to eat" and "Gawd gave us dominion over them" and that Gawd-Awful MURDERED millions of innocent animals by flooding the earth....and Christians were PROUD of that!

The story of Noah's Ark made me hate Gawd more than anything...from there, I had to seek out everything I could read about why this monstrous, hateful, murdering Gawd was worshipped and I vowed never to worship such a monster.

All of that led me at age 13-14 to the Earth-based traditions that worshipped Mother Nature....and the Wiccan principle of "Harm NONE" really meant something to me....until I grew up and got actively involved in Wicca and realized that 97% of them also eat murdered animals....which sent me to Buddhism...and then, finally to Atheism.

When I was 11 I was in the midst of a family being split by divorce and needed something stable in my life. I actively sought out religion, trying out various churches and flavors to find one that I could relate to. Probably the third or fourth time I heard that theirs was the only true path to heaven, and all else were lost, cemented it for me. I had already been made queasy by the sight of opulent churches in neighborhoods that struggled with poverty. ?

None for me. But when my son was 4, he stepped on a piece of glass and got a slight infection on his foot. He was starting at the cut, which hurt, and in his angriest voice blurted out "how could god let this happen?" That was his epiphany. Maybe it was mine too, looking back.

For me it was when my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer. Although I was having doubts before I was so upset because my mom was going through it too. They both survived but before that a guy I dated had lost 2 sisters and a niece to car wrecks. Was so sad.

It was more a growing realization over the course of years that it was all bullshit.

I attended a Church of England school as a and sung hymns and said prayers every morning but I was too young to understand the link with these acts to it being related to a god and that we should believe in ‘him’ and follow the stories in the bible. The fact that my older sister was born with severe disabilities and then my own two children similarly were born with significant disabilities too, more or less......and have now definitely cemented my view that if there was a ‘god’ he wouldn’t let these and a whole wide world of devastating inhumanities to mankind happen!

I was born godless but not evil. Never believed in Santa or any other bs

I wouldn’t say I had an epiphany so much as a growing conviction. In my teens I started to doubt the “god thing” and as time went on and logic and reason started to replace blind beliefs, I simply grew more and more certain that there simply were no gods, no deities or supreme beings.