What has made you turn agnostic?

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  1. I was religious until 13 when I thought I was initially an atheist. I never agreed with a lot of hate that my Christian friends would spew about gay and trans individuals. But I also realized that I thought there was something more but couldn’t side with a specific religion. Since, I’ve had many friends tell me their atheist and once I explain why I’m agnostic and what it means they’ve realized that they side more with it.

  2. Because it’s never proven that a god exists or not. Think about all the trouble in life. Where was he or she when i needed him or her the most. I was baptized a Catholic, but I am not a practicing Catholic.

    But put it this way, if i believe God exists, i don’t know that God exists. Simple as that.

  3. I am an agnostic atheist. I didn’t really “turn” agnostic. I knew that I didn’t “believe” or “have faith” the way that people tried to teach me, so it was more just a realization that there was a word for me when I learned the vocabulary to express it.

  4. Philosophy lessons during school.

    I never found the exact quote again but it went something like this:

    “I don’t like to believe in a god or fate because I don’t like to think of my life as predetermined. I want to make my own choices and take matters in my own hands”

    An I was like: Yeah, me too

    And that’s when I developed my own moral compass apart from religion to which I hold myself accountable.

  5. Once I learned the word and its definition. I was raised Catholic, but to me it was always fables and folk tales; stories intended to be a vehicle for some moral lesson and not historical fact.

  6. Assholes at the Christian youth group I went to made me want to look elsewhere. Doing research on various religions made me realize none of them are for me.

  7. I was raised Catholic. Did my confirmation and everything.

    When I was twenty my dad dropped dead.

    I was downstairs praying the hardest I’ve ever prayed in my life while paramedics tried and failed to revive him.

    Obviously no one listened/answered.

    Kind of came to the conclusion that if there is a god out there, they’ve got better things to do than to worry about us. I don’t necessarily believe there’s no god, just that they don’t really care if we’re going to mass, praying, etc.

    I settled for trying to be a good person, and if it turns out there’s something after death, I hope that’s good enough for them – because I’m doing it because I want to be a good person, not to tick boxes to get something better.

  8. I grew up a Christian, but in a very liberal (and quiet) denomination. I moved to the south for college and got sucked into a Southern Baptist youth group where people would have big emotional reactions during worship. (Waving hands in the air, crying, kneeling at the altar, etc.) I didn’t feel the same overwhelming emotions my peers did, which triggered a crisis of faith.

    Eventually I stopped going to church entirely and my mental health is better for it. After doing a lot of soul-searching on my own, I decided if there is a higher power, flawed humans aren’t going to get it 100% right so I should just focus on being helpful and kind as much as I can.

  9. Agnostic is a human’s initial setting. You get taught religion. When I was a kid, my parents didn’t want to go to church until they found one that wasn’t all about the money (spoiler: we never went to church). All of the stories and beliefs I heard regarding Christianity sounded incredibly silly and I had trouble internalising that people actually went along with any of it. Thus my sibling and I grew up having a distaste at best and contempt at worst for organised religion, much to my mother’s chagrin. I don’t regret a thing.

  12. Watching fqnatical American “christianity” from the other side of the ocean. The vile, godless, Jesus-ignoring, Trump-loving , Bible-waving hypocrisy has made me want to disassociate completely from the whole thing. It has nothing to do with a concept of purity and goodness, which is how I imagine a god(dess) being to be.

  13. Realizing organized religion is all about getting all up in other people’s shit.

  14. Spritual abuse and surviving a suicide attempt. I was supposed to be the “perfect Catholic girl” *cue the hysterical laughter* Welps, turns out I like knowing that, guess what? NOBODY knows if God truly exists and if heaven/hell exists. NOBODY knows the real answer. When I accepted that, it helped me to become the woman I am excited to be. I was that self destructive creature hell bent on destroying myself. Now, I like having hope even if things turn out hard or bad. 🙂

  16. I was raised in a Christian family and went to Catholic private schools for majority of my life. Ultimately what made me leave the religion was the fact that it’s more of an institution now. Majority of the believers use it to justify their hatred and bigotry instead of actually practicing compassion and kindness like what Jesus taught us to.

    While I have considered atheism before, I still believe that there’s something beyond humanity (“god”) that we don’t have full understanding of, so I settled with agnosticism.

  17. Nothing made me turn. I’ve always been this way. Sure, I explored different religions as a teenager, but even when I tried on the concept of theism, it was still agnostic theism. Then I eventually determined that the concept of god isn’t useful to me.

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