Well right around 16 or 17 they start thinking they know it all, which is the first step towards atheism. If they go to college, heaven help them because they are spoonfed humanism/athiesm and they swallow it down like gullible little chick going after worms. The college professors stroke their ego and take their soul.
then around 30 they realize how foolish they were and begin to come back to God. Life experience is the cure for Atheism
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And yet, here I am, 35 years old and still an atheist.
I think that means you FAIL.
More like around 30, some people start to get scared of the inevitable end and turn to God out of fear of the unknown, which is why all religion exists in the first place.
Some of us are simply made of stronger stuff, and don't need delusions to shelter us from reality.
Religion was my cure for religion. Life experience cemented it.
I'm trying to remember when I was spoon-fed humanism/atheism in university. It must've been while I was dozing off in Financial Accounting I.
Sorry, I figured out Christianity was BS even without having atheism 'spoon fed' to me. Although a class on evolution sure helped dispel the strawmen I had been taught in my younger days at church.
Plus, it doesn't say much about the staying power of your religion if a 17 year indoctrination can be defeated by a few years of college.
Seems like critical thinking was the beginning of the end for me. My last attempt at christianity was in College actually - there is quite a variety of campus ministries. I really didn't believe but I was trying the "godless christian" thing - didn't really work.
Now that I'm close to 40, I can't say I've even felt for one minute that there is anything supernatural - even when I wanted too.
Frankly though, if your theory is correct (that a few slick talking professors can talk someone out of faith), your god is a cosmic weakling.
Well right around birth parents force religion down their throats, which is the first step towards becoming a fundie. If they're homeschooled, heaven help them because they are spoon-fed fanaticism/fundie beliefs, and they swallow it down like gullible little chicks going after worms. The fundie parents stroke their egos and take their intelligence.
Then, around 16 or 17, they realize how foolish they were and begin to move away from God. Reading the Bible is the cure for fundieism.
Fixed.
If they go to college, heaven help them because they are spoonfed humanism/athiesm...
Are you saying that most college students are incapable of making their own decisions concerning their system of morality? Maybe it would be better all around if Jehovah just forced them to believe in Him. Better yet, He could provide the Earth with undeniable proof of His existence.
By the way, I just want to thank you theistic f***ers for several crippling mental disorders, including a guilt complex so inclusive that I actually feel guilty for my mere existence. That diagnosis isn't just some atheist ranting. It was determined after a comprehensive battery of psychological tests administered by mental health professionals.
Life experience is the cure for Atheism
Reading the Bible is the cure for theism.
What cured me of the disease of religion, around the age of 13, was listening to christians talk and trying to explain themselves and their beliefs. Life experience has taught me to distance myself from batshit crazy people.
I had a stock of supernatural experiences and reasons why I was a christian.
But after demysticication of and a careful look at each one, there was nothing there. They were made up.
Critical thinking killed the JC sup'star
I guess college teaches you. Life outside brings back the stupid
Did it ever occur to you that many people enter uni as atheists and by 30 they realise that all their religious friends wasted the prime of their lives where no one gave a fuck about sin and enjoyed their life! Hang on a sec, I'm 17 and an Atheist. I was not spoon fed religion and I'm fine. Oh shit! I think I just shot a hole in your logic bigger then Salt Lake City.
Enjoy that fantasy. I'm 39, and most of my atheist friends are over 30. Several others have abandoned Christianity as they approached 30.
What you're really describing is watching people learn to think for themselves, and then the countervailing trend of giving that up for comfortable pat explanations when people become preoccupied with other life-issues. Happens sometimes: "I've got a house and job and kids to worry about, no time to wrestle with philosophy and science. I'll take the prepackaged stuff," but rarely among those who are really dedicated to a search for truth and meaning.
You say "humanism" as if it were a bad thing. What, please, is the definition they fed you?
I chose humanism over dogmatism at a young age, and have yet, after 48 years, to find a rational reason to amend my choice.
I'm 47 and still an atheist; I have been, in essence, since about the age of 12, give or take a year -- I just didn't know the term for it until later. However, I have attended church off and on since then for various reasons, most of them social.
In fact, that's a common reason for people in their 30s to go back to church: They've got families by then with young children and limited adult social networking opportunities, but churches are set up as complete networks for this sort of thing for all ages. In fact, I can't think of ANY secular institution that's comparable.
And there are even occasional atheists who take their kids to church because they think it provides good moral instruction. I know -- a friend of mine sends his kids to church for that reason, but he's been an atheist for ages. (Yes, his reasoning is appallingly absurd, but nobody ever said that all atheists were completely sensible -- we have our kooks, too.)
I am 73. For the first 51 years of my life I was a dedicated christian, and for the last 22 years an atheist.
The sharpest tools in Satans' shed are ignorance, stupidity and misguided faith.
A relative of mine just graduated from college. She was in the first graduating class and this new college was still very small. I went to her graduation and I told my wife "I am sure she learned her class material, but I wonder if she got the most important thing from college, how to think for herself". This is where a good liberal arts college is so superior to a Liberty U. or Patrick Henry. I finished college 45 years ago and if I had to retake any of my final exams now, I am sure I would set records for epic failure. However, the ability to think for myself is still intact. I value reason and logic over ignorance, superstition and fantasy. Therefore I must reject belief in the supernatural with zero evidence.
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