Raised Catholic, renounced my religion entirely around 13 and became a militant atheist for several years afterwards. It wasn't until the last 1.5 years that I've been shifting away from the Atheism and now it would be disingenuous to refer to myself as an Atheist, now I totally KNOW God is real. (Not talking about the Judeo-Christian God.)
Teenage years = atheist Twenties = agnostic Thirties = theist As I grow older I see more and more that convinces me that our world is designed with a purpose in mind but I doubt I go beyond theism because no man can know the specifics regarding God's intentions and ideas.
child: theist teenager: baptist high school graduate: agnostic young adult: atheist adult: apatheist btw, how do you know that there's a god?
That word. I don't think it means... I KNOW you're wrong and I also used caps therefore my claim is true.
I went through a period of atheism when I was 13 until I was about 16, where I was vehemently opposed to the idea of God and was way too vocal about that opposition. I was raised in a really constricting religion (Hasidic Judaism), and I think that was my way of kinda working through all that. I had to step away from it to see it for what it really was. I'm certainly a theist now, though.
I was raised Pentecostal when my parents divorced I was left to my own devices and became an atheist. Now I'm a practicing Buddhist, which is a study I've followed through my teen years trying to find a spiritual path that worked for me. So I guess you can say I'm an atheist still, but a spiritual atheist
What is atheism? I don't live my life thinking, there is no god. Just as I do not live my life thinking there is no fairies, or unicorns for that matter. The label atheist is a bit of a misnomer really. It just says one do not buy notions of god as a condition for whatever it is this we call reality. Atheist do not mean being against religion. Or being a liberal or socialist. Or denying that us humans have a certain spiritual longing. Atheist do not mean all these things because the label atheist mean very little apart from thinking there is most probably no god. And that is it. Me, I am however an anti-theist. A totally different beast. Vehemently against all organized religion. The worse the religion is, the more I am against it. All because I see all the detrimental effects various religions have on society. And some religions are much, much worse than others. They are not equal in effect, though more or less equal in silliness.
Born Jewish. Let go of religious Judaism at 7. Let go of the need to define myself as anything else at the same time. Never been an atheist, agnostic, or theist. Experienced the Universe as conscious awareness around 18. Realised we are a part of all that is at 27 (always suspected it but never understood what I'd been feeling). Walked my own path in a state of open-minded skepticism for several years, aligning to no one teaching or idea, but recognising and resonating with many things that I let influence me. Accepted that holding any belief about what the universe may or may not be isn't necessary. Still doing that.
I had a period of atheism after I broke away from my Evangelical church. After a couple of years, I started becoming spiritual, and I practice my own style of heathenism now.
I used to be atheist untill I had a breakthrough psychedelic experience that gave me profound thoughts that may or may not be real but definitely shaped my perspective on spirituality.
Yeah psychedelics opened my eyes to the possibility of God also. We do not allow discussions of other drugs here - WW
Isn't the word Psychedelic merely descriptive of something that exists in this world and alters consciousness a certain way? Cannabis could also be referred to this way. The word itself doesn't refer to any substance specifically. If that is true, then as no other drug has been discussed, would you now say that no breach of the rules actually occurred? Thank you by the way for adding a comment rather than simply deleting the post.
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking... Uh, does that mean you quit quit being a believer, or did you stop being a non-believer...er, I'm confused... Some interesting thoughts in here though.
this is like someone quitting smoking cigarettes and then going back again.. you shoulda stayed a non smoker...