I moved out of my mother's house, no church around (or I did not knew where it was), so I stopped receiving the emotional feedback from religion, so slowly the rational side took over and I could start thinking straight.
Was not exactly a turn, was more like a sustained fight between rational and emotional until the first day I could say that I did not believe...

Born that way (as we all are) and no one ever changed my mind.

Logic!

I thought about whether or not there was any evidence for the existence of a god and I thought about whether the concept made any sense.

The more I learned about religion and science, the more I realized it was all fiction. Simply put, it was education.

Nothing. I was born atheist

I was born an atheist, they forced me to be a Christian, I asked a lot of questions, that the answers in their great majority, "It is a mystery of God, it is a sin to question", I am stubborn and I prefer logic! It took me a while to find myself.

Logic

When I was growing up religion was never really brought up in our house so I didn't really think about it at all. I guess maybe I thought we were non practicing Christians or something since everyone else around us was Christians. In middle school biology class our teacher (who was actually a tech ed teacher who was asked to teach biology because I guess they were short on teachers or something...) assigned us the very ridiculous (in my opinion) assignment to write an essay on whether or not we believed evolution was real. We had never been asked to write a similar opinion essay on any of the other concepts we had been taught and I remember turning to my friend next to me and asking "what the heck is going on with this assignment, it's weird?" and her turning back to me and saying that she thought evolution was made up and that God did it all. In that moment everything solidified in my mind, it was all bs. That assignment really backfired for that teacher whose aim was, I'm sure, to discredit the theory of evolution. I was nonreligious all along but that was the moment that it was solidified.

No specific incident. As my ability to employ critical thinking increased, my ability to believe in myths decreased.

Nothing "happened" and that is the whole point!

Well … I was born an atheist. At 4.6 I tried to become a Lutheran Christian … because I had been baptised by that brand, but my conversion failed miserably at age 5.17. However, given that I wasn't generating an income, I didn't declare my pocket money, I didn't go to the magistrates court to have my name official erased from the church register. I did that during the first petrol crisis in 1973. The teacher in charge of religious education walked into the classroom suggesting that the tanks should be sent into the states that refused to sell "us" their oil at bargain basement prices.
I got up and went straight to the magistrates court and applied for the eradication of my name from the Lutheran register. Naively I had been hoping to be heard by a magistrate. … I only filled in the form and a few weeks later I received the verdict telling me that I was no longer a member of the Lutheran church.
My father's uncle quit the bunch on the early 1920s, after surviving WW1 and subsequent battles on behalf of some bloody White Russian MAFIA fighting the Bolsheviks. At this time his action was almost an act of heresy.

I'm not sure I ever did.

I was in vacation bible school (VBS), getting glared at for asking questions. It wasn't because I was being stupid, it was because they didn't know the answers. After my third worthless VBS diploma, I realized might as well skip church. It was all a dog and pony show.

Anyone ever put a VBS diploma on the CV? If you don't snore loudly, they'll give you a VBS. Almost like my high school diploma which at least had better looking female classmates.

i just stopped one day to reconsider everything i believed in because i found out that something my folks had always told me turned out not to be true (they hadn't lied; they were just wrong). god went out the window pretty fast. it wasn't traumatic or anything.

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Reading religious texts.

Freshman year in college, philosophy 101, a book on the existence of god

Reaching the age of reason.

I was raised in Christian school and actually read the Bible, devoted myself to studying and understanding it and listened intently for god to speak to me and all I ever got was the ringing silence of a head that’s trying too hard. Then I continued learning the taboo knowledge of how and why the Bible was written, who revised n decided what made it in etc. I explored eastern religious cosmology, learned a lot about myself through psychedelics, yoga, and music, and discovered a lot of destructive thought patterns implanted at an early age by religious teachers.

It was only when I realized that god didn’t cast us from paradise, that we punish ourselves and each other by teaching this abusive shit and accepting shame for being human, that I finally experienced what the Bible calls “the peace that passeth understanding.” It wasn’t anything that happened to me to turn me atheist; I hadn’t been allowed to be me before, and it just so happens “me” is an atheist.

I decided to transition from male to female and found all believers hostile to that.

It's hard to pinpoint an exact time where I was like "oh shit i'm an atheist wheres my infant I need breakfast also hail satan"

But I always have the same thought when I think about becoming an atheist.

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So, you know like ... that part in Revelation, where like, there's fuckin' ... a dragon. Then there's this two sentence battle between the angels and the dragon and some other angels. Except the dragon has seven heads and is actually fuckin' Satan haha what a twist God. Anyway, in the middle of all this there's a woman who has like a baby and fuck if I know what happened to the baby but she goes out to the woods to live for exactly 1,260 days for some reason. I don't know why the g-o-single-d picked that number but it appears too specific not to be significant.

So devildragon with 10 horns loses and decides he can't win and he's like "fuck this man I'm gonna kill that bitch" Well I'm paraphrasing.

Anyway, god's like "nah you really ain't" and all of a sudden the woman has great eagle wings so she can fly to the forest for her 1,260 days. But after this, for some reason, even though this chick could clearly fly at this point. Satanserpentdragon unleashes a goddamn river from his mouth right. Like, literally enough water to be a river it's very descriptive. Anyway, he seems to think this is a good plan. And apparently, even though this chick can fly god felt the need to intervene in that because the earth opens up and swallows all that water like this weird porn video I saw once but that's not important.

So the dragon got pissed and declared war on the woman and all her offspring, who are apparently the ones who are keeping god's commands i don't know.

And it only gets crazier from there.

Point is, if I want shitty fantasy novels I can read George R.R. Martin.

Never really did believe, never was in a religion. Slowly over a long period I lost all interest in the thought that I could be missing something, decided I must be agnostic but became more hardline over time.

I read the bible cover to cover while awake.

I've always been one. The books I read when I was little about dinosaurs and nature just made a lot more sense than the concept of a magic wizard in the sky.

My friend had told me about how the story of Hercules mirrors the story of Jesus in many ways, yet predates it by 500 years. That got the ball rolling. Once that veil was lifted, I started reading and researching what other stories were lifted. I also went through and actually read the entire old testament..not just the Sunday school stories.