How many left the organization have become Atheist? (page 4)

TheCoolerKing

At this point in my life I'd consider myself an agnostic. Possibly leaning toward becoming an atheist, but not there yet. I've been reading lots of books on the subjects of God and the origin of the Bible. I'm currently reading "The God Delusion" as well as the New Testament of the Bible. Although I've been reading the Bible lately (interesting book, without the WTS blinders on) I've been doubting it's authenticity. And I certainly don't buy the Genesis account of creation either. I do find that it's rather frustrating at times though, trying to choose between creation or evolution. I think it all comes down to personal preference and what an individual chooses to believe. In my case I may just give up caring about "the origins of humankind" altogether!

TCK

AlmostAtheist

*raises hand* Atheist here.

Interestingly, I was poking about on the web one day trying to find information about Christian Scientists and happened upon a forum. The forum title page said something to the effect, "This is NOT yet another CS-turned-atheist forum. We are all Christians that have turned from following men to following Christ."

From that and other comments I've seen, it seems one way to fling a person into atheism is to first wind him up tightly in cult.

Not that "cults make atheist", but that having been in a cult makes you look at religion a bit deeper and require a bit more proof from any alleged god that mentions how great it would be to worship him.

Dave

Mulan

It's not the way the WTS presented god that made me lose all belief in one - it's the way the Bible presents god! If his own book makes god look like a abusive, dysfunctional madman, well, you don't have much to work with!
Oh yes, there was that one other factor - the complete lack of evidence for his existence. I should think that if there was one thing an all-powerful god could do, it would be to prove he's around. I can do it, why can't he?

Ditto! The longer I am away from religion, the bible and the belief in god, the more it makes absolutely no sense to my very logical mind.

DJK

I'm an Atheist. I left because I was Atheist.

The conditioning I recieved from a young age did nothing to make me believe in God. My parents tried to teach me about God. I felt they were wrong about God.

Once your turned off the repeated over and over again words "Jehovah is the one and only true God" , then how can you believe there is any other God?

DJK

dedpoet

I was an atheist when I left the org.

done4good

I did consider myself an atheist for quite some time after leaving the WTS. It was the only logical conclusion based on emperical evidence alone, as many of the above posters have cited. That said, I have come to realize that their is some value in the concept of faith. Without getting into too much detail, a level of faith maintains sanity. There is a HUGE difference between fundamentalist beliefs, (= belief that theBible or any other holy book is technically accurate), and spirituality. When one learns to think in these terms it is far easier to "bridge the gap" when faced with religious inconsistencies. It is VERY difficult for an ex-jw to think like this. The concept of spirituality has always been tied to having "all of the answers", to a jw. One has to learn to get beyond that way of thinking if they want to consider alternatives to atheism.

j

IT Support

Atheist.

After I walked away from JWs, I looked at other Christian denominations, but found them equally unsatisfacotry, even if less corrosive, than WT.

So starting from first principles, I researched whether the Bible was realy inspired. Thanks to the abundance of evidence out there, it didn't take too long. It wasn't. It is full of contradictions, immorality and sadistic cruelty. It brought home to me, while I'd been a JW, the mind's capacity to ignore what we don't want to see.

On whether God existed. I was disposed towards agnosticism, but the more I read and thought about it, I realised it was simply dodging the question. As a JW we had been indoctrinated for years in all sorts of obscure reasons for theism, so it was refreshing to read the clarity and common sense of atheist literature. In the end I couldn't dispute the logic.

lonelysheep

Me. I always was athiest, I just didn't realize it till after leaving them.

mavie

Atheist here.

The secular Buddhism that is becoming popular in the West has attracted me.

eclipse

For the survey data I am not an atheist, I noticed most respondents say they are atheists. It's probably the way the WTS presented God that did it. -greendawn

Sorry greendawn,

Realizing that there is no evidence to support a creator has nothing to do with the way the WT protrayed god. In fact, they presented god in the best light that they could of, considering god's thirst for blood, and angry, jealous disposition.

So that argument is weak at best.

If you want to understand atheists, just do some research on science and history, perhaps you have?

Science and history are the best advocates for evolution....and I used to be a die-hard creationist.

It takes alot to make a person change their beliefs 180 degrees.

It's when you open your mind to the facts before you, without clouding them with an emotional response.

How many left the organization have become Atheist?

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