How have these things effected your faith?
It was a good part of me becoming an atheist, after many years as an adult, believing Christian.
Realising the non-directionality of faith was a major step.
Faith self-authenticates *all* faiths.
P.S. that’s "affect".
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December 31st, 2009 at 12:42 pm
I think that is why I am an atheist now.
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December 31st, 2009 at 1:32 pm
It could re-enforce your belief in a God who encourages knowledge.
agnostic/deist
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December 31st, 2009 at 2:05 pm
It’s done away with my faith.
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December 31st, 2009 at 2:38 pm
It helped me quite a bit.
I used to be a hopeful agnostic, but after reading the cases for theism proposed by the world’s greatest philosophers I concluded that a belief in God is more rational than not. But I have to admit, it took me about three months studying formal logic before I understood the modal argument.
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December 31st, 2009 at 3:14 pm
It altered them, in much the same way a large magnet will alter a hard drive.
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December 31st, 2009 at 3:53 pm
It finished off the doubt that showed up after I decided to read the Bible cover to cover.
Reading the Bible cover to cover is a great path to Atheism.
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December 31st, 2009 at 4:19 pm
none man is full of lies and i only believe what is in front of me and if you want to say then why worship god because he is in everything
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December 31st, 2009 at 4:41 pm
throughout high school i didn’t believe in a god because i hated a lot of the christians at my middle school… but what really affected me was science, mainly biology and its subject of evolution… i saw that the bible was wrong about… well… everything… particularly the old testament of the bible…
currently though… i have turned to agnosticism because i have a lack of knowledge to prove whether or not a god exists… on top of that… i turned because i have a belief that religion possibly can have a place in the community as long as the militant/fundamentalist theists just live their lives without trying interfere with others
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ex-christian
ex-atheist
agnostic student of religion
December 31st, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Not in the slightest. If my faith were subject to such natural means of obtaining knowledge it would only be a matter of opinion.
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born again Christian biologist
December 31st, 2009 at 5:12 pm
It was a good part of me becoming an atheist, after many years as an adult, believing Christian.
Realising the non-directionality of faith was a major step.
Faith self-authenticates *all* faiths.
P.S. that’s "affect".
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December 31st, 2009 at 5:29 pm
"Science for knowledge, religion for wisdom."
Damn that quote is so old. Science, logic or rationalism wasn’t what made me Agnostic, but it took some of my faith away.
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December 31st, 2009 at 5:42 pm
The more I learn, the smaller I feel! God in His goodness and wisdom is so great! The wonders of this earth He has given us, and we are just now beginning to understand how things work. Imagine what it will be like in future generations.
All glory to God, now and forever!
Actually when I entered college I had no use for God in my life. The more I studied the more I saw Him at work in the universe. After graduation is when I came back to the church.
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Catholic Geologist
December 31st, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Believing in God doesn’t mean you stop making sense of things. All science isn’t logic and rationalism. It only strengthens my faith when i discover God’s hand in the science department, and for those who lost their faith because of it were never true to their faith in God to begin with.
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December 31st, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Science and Philosophy have strengthened my faith in Jesus Christ. History all but proves the Bible to be infalliable. Christianity makes sense, and rationalism would put all other religions, including atheism, to shame.
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