How many religions would you have to go through before you became an atheist?
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thank you first, for making a point that you didnt want to offend anybody and you respect all religions. If Christianity was orven to be false in the aspect that "Jesus was not our messiah" and he never lived at all, i would go to Judiasm, because it has the same basic principles, i would have to go through judiasm and muslim after christianity and then become an atheist. but i hope it doesnt come to that
1174495
1- if you choose the wrong belief, you will end up in hell.\n    {there is only one true religion that you should follow.}\n \n2-yes, I thought :what if I was wrong? and there is another belief  \n   which is right .\n\n3-if I'm truly convinced that I 'm on the wrong path , I 'll change it ,\n   no matter  what the risks are.\n \n4-I spent years and years searching for the truth,and thanks to \n   Allah Almighty that I found the right path.
618559
No thanks. Would you like to become an atheist?
510779
Yes (in a sense)...\n\nI used to be an atheist. Over a period of time however, I grew convinced of the existence of the Christian God, and ultimately committed my life to Christ. \n\nFor a draft-version of my journey from atheism to Christ, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/testimony/seek.html\n\nCordially,\nJohn
256515
That depends on your beliefs. If you're religious, some form of heaven. More specifically, if you were a buddhist, you would reincarnate back into Earth as another person or even an animal. If you were an atheist, then you don't even have a soul to begin with in that view.
303933
Yes, I had more than one religious experience as a child, but I am now an atheist. I think that those experiences were cathartic realizations and that they did mean something, but they meant something because of my situation, my psychology, and my desire to believe in certain things beyond the physical world. I view them as experiences that were powerful and important, but I no longer think that they were truly supernatural. I interpreted them as supernatural experiences at the time because of the spiritual belief system that I accepted, rather than because there were reasons to interpret them in that way.
723854
... Hrm. Good question and. Yeah, I think you would be an atheist. Atheism is the unbelief of god or anything above. If you just don't believe in the christian, Catholic, islamic etc etc, with all the "founded" religions, but believe in a greater power you are an agnostic, I think. \n\nEvolution is not part of Atheist belief, it's just a label. Somehow believing in evolution means not believing in god. But there are those who believe in both so why not someone who doesn't believe in either? \n\nAlthough I would like to know if you have any belief about how we got here. or "came to exist" The only other possibility that popped into my head was "aliens dropped us here like my dad suspected" but I'm sure there's more than three explanations as to how humans came to be humans.
1155311
No, because if you study the history of theology many religions existed before the Bible was written.
1074907
If you were a real religious person, there wouldn't be a "first". Everyone would be equal.\n\nBigot.
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A lot, actually.  (but then they weren't atheists anymore after that).\n\nI think for some people, they don't believe in God until something happens in their life that puts it all in perspective.  You might walk away unscathed from a bad car accident that killed everyone else in the car, or something along those lines.  Or, you may just have a moment of extreme weakness and beg for help, from anyone or anything.  There are a lot of ways for that to happen.
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at age 17, in 1961, I was embarrassed by my drill sargeant for having "atheist" on my dogtag and was forced to go back and get a new one with a religion " I don't care what religion but we do not have any atheists in my troops!"\n\nI had made the mistake of answering the religion question with 'No preference" and they had no category for that except atheist. I went back to office and chose "catholic' because I could not think of anything else and my grilfriend was a catholic. This placated his wrath and I learned to keep my religious beliefs silent in USA or be punished for them. He always picked on me after that.
767845
you do not have to follow any religion to believe in god as there is one god and only one but different religions have different interpretations of it so go for it be a believer
1174781
No, once you start believing in a god, you stop being an atheist. Knowing that god doesn't exist is the definition of atheism. An atheist could still have a religion, though. Buddhists, for example. An atheist might believe in other supernatural things, besides god. Usually not, though. Atheists don't think that religion doesn't exist, if that's what you mean. That would be stupid. I'm perfectly aware of the existance of religion, I just find it pointless.
907339
God makes Herself known to each person individually.  If this hasn't happened for you (and you'll know when it happens) then you're an Atheist/Agnostic.  You're one of the chosen people to have little to no regard for religious dogma and to be like all the great Atheist thinkers of history.
871710
I've study Buddhism, Hinduism, Daoism, Shinto, Sikhism, Confucianism and Jainism,Judaism, Islam, and Christianity-and it only deepened my catholic faith.  Learning about so many religion made me realized how different people are and how glad i am to have my faith.
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Ain't very much to it. \nIf you're dealing with the Spirit... are you trinitarian or unitarian or what?\nWould you have some sort of creed?\nHow would it be organized?\nCould you marry people?\nDo you believe in Baptism?\n\nIf you're going to form a new religion, you'll probably need to think about a lot more than works.... you'll need to know how to deal with the needs of people in your religion.
780472
Could atheists call themselves atheists if they formed a religion,  dude that's deep.... pass the bong....  what were we talking about  *cough*  *cough*