What Made You Question Religion? Thread Highlights
Summary
Atheist Front ⚛ hosts a candid thread where members recount the first moments they questioned religion. The announcement covers childhood doubts, the Holocausts impact on family belief, debates about hell and an all good creator, cultural differences in faith, and vivid personal reactions. It matters because it sparks community reflection and open dialogue on belief and suffering.
Was there an instance in your childhood where “it” occurred to you.
I never really believed ngl
I was raised atheist
My family stopped believing after the Holocaust
“If a God exists he will have to beg for my forgiveness “
It’s true
Ahh i seee
Ooh so thats where the doubt started
Not them omg
For me it was the idea that an “all good” creator can create such a torture chamber like hell
It is INSANE
Christians after they say “God works in mysterious ways”
Mine too
Exactly it makes no sense that an All good creator can make an eternal torture chamber for a finite “sin”
I will be in that torture chamber for ETERNITY just for not believing in him
That sounded INSANE
to me
Ye
Thats why its in quotations
My dad yes but they weren’t in the Holocaust most people who had ancestors in the Holocaust stopped believing in god which is my mom side
Blood out of puhhh???
Its almost like extreme suffering creates non belief
Yep!
Lack of suffering creates comfort and belief
I didnt wanna imagine young holes while having dinner
That was the thing with European Jews that’s why most of them are atheist today despite being Jews contrary to Mizrahi or Ethiopian Jews who are still heavy believers
Yeah
But mizrahis r pretty rasict
True
Yeah
That disney song
bro stop
Im eatig
My brain automatically visualises text
Same lol
My brain thinks in visualisation and narration
I imagine cosmi lying in the floor bleeding
Bleeding to death
Getting seizures while it’s happening
LOL
Sybau
Alloha loves you he is all loving
All powerful
Believe in alloha
Alloha akbar
Lmfao
Who are u
Lemme guess
Simon
Nah thats thors
Yeah
It’s def thors
Oh
IM SORRY KAASHI
Back in May of last year, I was getting fed up with my mom's constant legalism, telling me for the umpteenth time that I wasn't a true Christian because I haven't prayed enough or read the Bible enough to her delight. This made me upset as usual, but it also made me want to try and prove her wrong, and the way I felt interested in doing that was to do what I had come to like at that point: perfecting my apologetics, cuz I thought getting knowledgeable about the Bible and Christian doctrine would make her think I was good at studying it and therefore a good Christian. So, I did what I hadn't previously, which is to watch atheists videos, not just Christian responses to them. After that, it genuinely didn't take very long before I started feeling like life would be easier to disbelieve so I wouldn't have to care about my mom policing my faith, but then along the way I was convinced to actually do so for disbelief's sake. I tried sharing it with my then gf who I had converted to Christianity, but she was all up in her honeymoon phase with Jesus so she didn't take any of it to heart. She heard me out when we would talk about it but she always tried persuading me to go to God with my doubts instead of trying to make sense of them apart from him. But, I couldn't help myself. Overtime, we started to kinda have a falling out over my deconstruction and we eventually agreed to break up because I couldn't stand the though of having a fundamentalist gf anymore, and she wanted to stay faithful by no longer being "unequally yoked". That's my very ironic story.
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Where u from?
Interesting!
Great job
