When did you all first relize that you did not belive in the man in the sky...
In my teens when Ilearned the horror of the Holocaust and studied Job.
When I used my brain and studied religion. We know where god came from and why we have seen fit to drink the poison over and over thruought human history. It is a political tool used to amass furtune and to control the population. Period. Eve Martin Luther King had the courage to write about the fact that religion is a collection of stories written to teach "morals". God, the real God, is a teapot orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars. Period. Get over it
It took me a very long time to let go of the God that I was brain washed to believe in. I finally started to think for myself and question things that I was made to believe were true. I can’t believe in a God that allows so much pain and suffering in this world. Science is my religion.
When I survived cancer. If there were a god (and if he or she is as strict as some believe), there would be a discrepancy in the remission rates of cancer by different faiths. But there isn't.
I'm not sure I ever believed. We did not talk about religion in my family.
I think I was a young kid when I first started questioning things.
It was more of a gradual process, the more I learned about religion and science the less I believed until it just faded away.
Another critical moment was when the head Rabbi of my families congregation dumpe dhis beautiful wife and 4 beautiful daughters, emptied out th esynagogues bang accounts, shipped his to Cadilacs off to Israel and ran off with a divorced lady down the street. That was on top of "how could the Holocost have happenned if there is a god?"
Damn That is messed up.
I was a kid, around 10, and that rabbi, Rabbi Wernick, was the closest thing to "god" that I had in my life. Everyone was in awe of him. The previous Rabbi got drunk (like everyone else) after service on a rainy day and t-boned into our station wagon on the way home and put a couple of my bros in the hospital. Insane, isn't it? I only made it to my bar-mitzvah at 13 years old because my parents would have had me strung up if I hadn't. Lol! What would be amazing is if I had't have given "god " the finger and said F off!. Haha... the stories that we have!
Pretty much from when I had to go to religious school (hebrew school) training as a young child and had to listen to the indoctrination. I was a major pain in the ass, my parents had to pick me up a few times because I was being disruptive and challenging the teachers.
Patten Oswald does a funny pie man in the sky skit.
But honestly I’ve never felt that sort of religiousness. Churches, baptisms, experienced them all for friends, none of them made me think I was in the spirit of something supernatural. So I am one of the rare born atheists.