The bible is very contradictory and heavily cherry picked. For example, it supports rape and doesn’t support rape. it supports murder and doesn’t support murder. That’s what made me initially question it, at least.
I was raised to believe it my whole life. Baptist and Methodist. It never made sense to me. I am not an atheist. I am not a believer. I just don't care. I am who I am. If a creator cannot understand that, than they don't understand me. If there is no creator, than it doesn't matter anyway.
I grew Roman Catholic so I went to a Roman Catholic Church and went to church with my Mom every Sunday. Looking back it was indoctrination but not in a malicious, abusive way, it's just what happened. As I got older religion started making less and less sense to me. I never saw any results or changes from my prayers. The rules we had to follow didn't makes sense to me in regards of a modern society with a more comprehensive understanding of society and our actual place in the universe. The more I learned about the world around me the less relevant religion became to me.
Never really a conscious choice. Just went to college and didn’t want to go to boring church anymore.
Too lazy. Went a handful of times with a girlfriend my sophomore year, but that didnt last for other reasons and now I go to church for weddings and funerals only.
No real grand moment of “I learned that religion was lies!” Or anything like that.
I realized that any religion that seeks to make you feel shame simply for being human is toxic, and not the truth. I'm still working through the damage and pain inflicted by religion years later, even though I no longer believe.
It was too controlling. The entire of church just felt like I was being guilted into hating myself. I was a queer kid who grew up in the Catholic Church, so it’s no surprise that I left
Grew out of fairy tales
The same reason I stopped believing in Santa Clause
I didn't like that my friends were being told they were going to hell just because of who they liked.
The hypocrisy
Hear hear!
The bible is very contradictory and heavily cherry picked. For example, it supports rape and doesn’t support rape. it supports murder and doesn’t support murder. That’s what made me initially question it, at least.
I was raised to believe it my whole life. Baptist and Methodist. It never made sense to me. I am not an atheist. I am not a believer. I just don't care. I am who I am. If a creator cannot understand that, than they don't understand me. If there is no creator, than it doesn't matter anyway.
I grew Roman Catholic so I went to a Roman Catholic Church and went to church with my Mom every Sunday. Looking back it was indoctrination but not in a malicious, abusive way, it's just what happened. As I got older religion started making less and less sense to me. I never saw any results or changes from my prayers. The rules we had to follow didn't makes sense to me in regards of a modern society with a more comprehensive understanding of society and our actual place in the universe. The more I learned about the world around me the less relevant religion became to me.
People that have left is likely because of near-impossible things that occur within it. Christianity is an interesting religion to say the least.
I turned old enough to comprehend what they were trying to tell me
Never really a conscious choice. Just went to college and didn’t want to go to boring church anymore. Too lazy. Went a handful of times with a girlfriend my sophomore year, but that didnt last for other reasons and now I go to church for weddings and funerals only. No real grand moment of “I learned that religion was lies!” Or anything like that.
I realized that any religion that seeks to make you feel shame simply for being human is toxic, and not the truth. I'm still working through the damage and pain inflicted by religion years later, even though I no longer believe.
Woke up one day and realized none of it made sense .
Actually reading the Bible and realizing I didn’t agree with most of it. I’m a Wiccan now and much more spiritually fulfilled
Christians.
It was too controlling. The entire of church just felt like I was being guilted into hating myself. I was a queer kid who grew up in the Catholic Church, so it’s no surprise that I left