For those who don't believe in anything faith wise at t'all, this one's for you.

I just don't think any religion makes 100% sense to me.. none of them convince me of anything.

:) Thank you!

I agree with the pp. There is nothing that convinces me there is a higher power. I can understand why someone would believe in one, but it's not something I need.

What made you come to your conclusion that you would not believe in any deity at all.


Well it began with questions that made no sense like how 3 religions that believe in the same god can fight among their own "religions" (Christian denom vs Christian denom etc) much less with each other (Christian vs Jew vs Muslim). from there it went into research not only of the religions themselves but the history of the areas in which they developed. Keep going back and back and eventually you discover that religion was man-made as a way to explain natural phenomena where knowledge was lacking and it evolved and was transferred from culture to culture in conjunction with wars and conquering nations, and trade routes, etc. In other words any time 2 or more civilizations crossed paths.

the more it is researched the more the idea of an "all-knowing, all-seeing< all-powerful" God simply does not make logical sense. Especially when you study philosophy through the ages and can see just when those ideas were introdiced and attributes to "GoD' and who first presented it. In short, through research and questioning I have concluded the idea of any "supernatural gods" as anything but being man-made is simply illogical.

And that applies to ALL religions not just the Abrahamic ones. Now, in many cases God's were used as metaphors in the past, but as civilizations changed and evolved, conquered etc. those metaphorsw ere merged into the other cultures beliefs and some took on more "real" or "personified" roles. So really it's a mixture between the explanation of the unknown with the allegories of explaining human behavior and nature that got crossed and altered as societies grew and evolved.

I used to be a devout Christian, being saved and baptized as a teen. I never really questioned what I was taught, taking it all on faith to be true. I slid away from the church routine during college, but still attended here and there for years.

As I entered my 30s, I started questioning the stories of the bible and how the literal version did not tie to what science keeps showing. My brother began testifying his fundamentalist beliefs at the time. The more I heard his reasons that science must be wrong, the more I doubted what the bible said. Adding to that all the politics and additions mankind has made to all religions over the millenium, I ended up not knowing which or what to believe.

I've settled with the idea there could be a 1000 gods, one, or none. No one can know for certain without verifiable evidence. I'm sticking with not holding faith in any since science, not miracles, is what I feel most comfortable.