ireneony:
this made sense "the only reason i was a Christian was by choice"..
I think so too.

I'm starting to dislike Christianity. .

But for now i still believe in God.

Seun:
It happened at a time when I had many problems in my life and I decided to skip sunday fellowship because frankly, the fellowship hadn't done anything whatsoever to help me with my problems. Over the next week, I tried to examine the impact of my personal relationship with God on my life and I could only conclude that it had a negative impact on my life. If I had relied on my own understanding to make decisions, instead of doing things I thought God wanted me to do, my life would have been so much better. So I told my roommates that I'd be an interim atheist until I got some strong evidence of the existence of God and the truth of the bible. I'd no longer give Christianity the benefit of doubt.

(I could do that because in my quest to be a better Christian, I learnt exactly how the bible was put together, which was a mess. I'd discovered the contradictions in the bible. I'd tried to convert a muslim who was able to defend the flaws of Islam as well as I could defend the flaws of Christianity, which made me realize that the only reason I was a Christian was by choice, due to being born into it. My quest to witness the pentecostal promise of signs and wonders had been fruitless. Even speaking in tongues had turned out to be not supernatural at all)

As an atheist, I started the process of rethinking my life, and everything now made so much more sense. All those 'difficult questions' I used to struggle with as a Christian who actually read the bible and tried to make sense of it were easily answered thus: "because there's no God".

CAPSLOCKED:
I STARTED TO IMAGINE LIFE & DEATH FROM THE TIME I WAS 7. OR EVEN 5.
LOST MY DAD WHEN I WAS 2MONTHS OLD SO IT WASN'T TOO BRILLIANT FOR ME.

WAS BORN A CATHOLIC, GREW UP AN ALTER BOY, FROM PRIMARY SCHOOL DAYS TO SEC.

I WAS EVEN SENT TO A MINOR SEMINARY, EVEN AS AN ONLY SON. ALTHOUGH I REALLY WANTED TO BE A MONK SO BAD.. . BUT THE THOUGHT OF BEING AN ONLY SON MADE THE CHOICE OF PRIESTHOOD A LITTLE MANAGEABLE.

FROM THE TIME I WAS A KID I ALREADY HAD PERSONAL ISSUES WITH GOD THO I FEARED AND BELIEVED IN HIM, BUT WHY CHOOSE TO TAKE AWAY MY DAD LEAVING ME AND MY TWO SISTERS TO THE MERCY OF NOBODY, WHAT DID I OR MY PARENTS DO TO DESERVE THIS, I THOUGHT. ..

AT 11, WE LOST MUMSY.

OUT OF ALL THE BAD PEOPLE MAKING THIS WORLD BAD, THIS GUY CHOSE TO TAKE MY PARENTS.. . WHY?
TO LET WE INNOCENT KIDS SUFFER, FOR WHAT REASON NAW, TOT HE'S A LOVELY BEING? ?

I CONTINUED TO FEEL DISAPPOINTED WITH GOD BUT STILL PRAYED WITH HIM OUT OF FEAR THAT I MIGHT DIE A PAINFUL DEATH AND GO TO HELL.

IN 2012, I STOPPED CARRYING MUCH OF CHRISTIANITY IN MY HEART CUZ I COULDN'T IMAGINE OTHER PEOPLE GOING TO HELL AND JUST WE CHRISTIANS GOING TO HEAVEN.

I STOPPED BELIEVING IN JESUS THOUGH I FELT IT WAS RELEVANT TO STILL BELIEVE IN GOD.
BUT NOTHING REASONABLE WAS WORKING FOR I AND MY TWO SISTERS.

DESPITE TAKING AWAY OUR PARENTS THE GUY DIDN'T STILL WANNA MAKE US BE COMFORTABLE, MY BIG SISTER PRAYED AND FASTED FOR 7 YEARS BEFORE GAINING ADMISSION INTO SCHOOL. ..BY THEN MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SUPPOSED TO SPONSOR HER HAD ALREADY DIED. LOL, I WAS IN JS1 WHEN SHE FINISHED SEC, SO YOU SEE THE REALLY WIDE MARGIN BETWEEN OUR AGES.


MEHN.. I CONTINUED TO PRAY TO THIS MAN UNTIL LAST YEAR, BUT BEFORE THEN I STOPPED GOING TO CHURCH AND ENGAGING IN RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES.
I JUST DECIDED ITS NOT POSSIBLE THAT A LOVELY CREATOR WILL LET ME KNOW SADNESS FROM THE TIME I WAS A TODDLER... DOING HARM TO MY FAMILY ALL IN THE NAME OF GOD'S WILL.
MEANWHILE LETTING POOR KIDS SUFFER AND DIE ALL AROUND THE WORLD, LETTING THE WICKED ONES PROSPER EVEN MORE, AND EVEN MAKE HEAVEN IF THEY REPENT ON THEIR DEATH BED.

EVERY THING BECAME SMOOTER FOR ME WHEN I STARTED THINKING AND LOOKING OUTSIDE THE "RELIGION BOX" AND LIFE HAS BEEN EXTREMELY FAIR WITH ME SINCE I STARTED TO WORSHIP IT AND ADORE NATURE.

AS I 😘A KID I LOVED TO READ ABOUT SPACE.. THEN I DIDN'T EVEN THINK IT'S POSSIBLE TO CREATE 9 OR MORE OR LESS PLANETS AND FILL JUST THIS ONE WITH HUMANS. EVEN AFTER DESTROYING THE WORLD BY FLOODING WHY DIDN'T HE JUST RELOCATE NOAH TO SATURN OR RECREATE A NEW MAN ON JUPITER?
HOW WILL AN ALL KNOWING GOD WHO ALREADY KNOWS THE FUTURE, NOT KNOW THAT ADAM WILL EAT THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT.. .. WHY DIDN'T HE REMOVE THE TREE FROM THERE? OR WHY DID HE FORM VEXED AND CURSE THEM WHEN HE ALREADY KNEW THEY WERE GON FCK UP.

HE KNEW CAN WAS GON KILL ABEL, WHY DID HE LET IT HAPPEN ONLY TO FORM VEX AS USUAL, AND CURSE CAIN AND HIS GENERATION.

MEHN I SAW A LOT OF THINGS AS IMPOSSIBLE AND ABSURD IN THE BIBLE AS A KID BUT COULDN'T STOP PRETENDING TO PRAY BECAUSE OF FEAR OF HELL.

WHEN I WAS A TEEN I'LL EVEN ADD IT TO MY PRAYERS. .. I'LL BE LIKE "LORD YOU SEE DEEP DOWN MY MIND, YOU KNOW I REALLY DOUBT AND DISLIKE YOU BUT I'M SCARED OF HELL AND CAN'T STOP DOUBTING YOU CUZ I DON'T SEE ANY REASON TO BELIEVE YOU, BUT PLEASE HAVE MERCY"!

INCASE YOU READING THIS GIBBERISH JUST KNOW I TYPED IT ABSENT MINDED.
PARDON THE IMPROPER GRAMMAR USE AND LACK OF PUNCTUATION I'M JUST TYPING CUZ ITS THE ONLY THING TO DO ON NL..


BUT I DON'T LIKE TO BE CALLED AN ATHEIST, I DON'T LIKE TITLES AND STUFF, I JUST LIVE LIFE BELIEVING IN LIFE, LOVE, SERENITY, CHARITY, AND UHM.. . MASTURBAT!ON!

Seun:
It happened at a time when I had many problems in my life and I decided to skip sunday fellowship because frankly, the fellowship hadn't done anything whatsoever to help me with my problems. Over the next week, I tried to examine the impact of my personal relationship with God on my life and I could only conclude that it had a negative impact on my life. If I had relied on my own understanding to make decisions, instead of doing things I thought God wanted me to do, my life would have been so much better. So I told my roommates that I'd be an interim atheist until I got some strong evidence of the existence of God and the truth of the bible. I'd no longer give Christianity the benefit of doubt.

(I could do that because in my quest to be a better Christian, I learnt exactly how the bible was put together, which was a mess. I'd discovered the contradictions in the bible. I'd tried to convert a muslim who was able to defend the flaws of Islam as well as I could defend the flaws of Christianity, which made me realize that the only reason I was a Christian was by choice, due to being born into it. My quest to witness the pentecostal promise of signs and wonders had been fruitless. Even speaking in tongues had turned out to be not supernatural at all)

As an atheist, I started the process of rethinking my life, and everything now made so much more sense. All those 'difficult questions' I used to struggle with as a Christian who actually read the bible and tried to make sense of it were easily answered thus: "because there's no God".

ireneony:
this made sense "the only reason i was a Christian was by choice"..
I think so too.

I'm starting to dislike Christianity. .

But for now i still believe in God.

ireneony:
lol ..funny. ..nah..
I basically don't like any religion. ..for the time being...i will stick with Christianity (passive Christian )

You....a christian ...good for you though

Greenlandncom:
Funny when people claim to be an atheist!
The commonest reasons people often put out is/are Pains and sufferings in the world and things they can not fully grasp.
When you cook up your conception of 'God' and how he should work or operate the human existence, you are not doing anything different from what the people of old did. Then to gain credence for any single action, all one needs to do was to attach 'God' to it or it to 'God'.
Note that the bible is a mere collection of events and history. It can give you ideas on what people think of God, but can never show you prove of God's existence or his all good, all powerful and all present attributes.
The only true prove of the existence and goodness of God is in your very existence and not what you understand or did not understand from the bible or what a pastor teaches you or what you see/perceive going on in the life of someone which you consider to be unjust.
Nothing in this life is absolute except God.
Even all those claiming to be atheists are never those absolutely. They are only nursing one bais or the other.
I am a Christian! I have experienced many difficulties and have had very weired questions about God and Christianity and religion as a whole.
Truth remains that a true religion is a complete blend of Faith and reason, because man is both a Spiritual and Material being. To dwell on faith alone is absurd, same goes with reason alone.
For those making reference to the killings in the Old testament bible and early Christian era, remember that all these were done at times when , to gain credence for an action, all you needed to do was to attach God to it and everyone would buy it, even though many of such killings were either selfish or for political reasons.
I practice rational Christianity and my Faith makes great sense to me.

iAmCharis:
Why if I may ask?

RoyalBlak007:


You....a christian ...good for you though

ireneony:
are you not?

RoyalBlak007:

no....
I believe in God

CAPSLOCKED:
I STARTED TO IMAGINE LIFE & DEATH FROM THE TIME I WAS 7. OR EVEN 5.
LOST MY DAD WHEN I WAS 2MONTHS OLD SO IT WASN'T TOO BRILLIANT FOR ME.

WAS BORN A CATHOLIC, GREW UP AN ALTER BOY, FROM PRIMARY SCHOOL DAYS TO SEC.

I WAS EVEN SENT TO A MINOR SEMINARY, EVEN AS AN ONLY SON. ALTHOUGH I REALLY WANTED TO BE A MONK SO BAD.. . BUT THE THOUGHT OF BEING AN ONLY SON MADE THE CHOICE OF PRIESTHOOD A LITTLE MANAGEABLE.

FROM THE TIME I WAS A KID I ALREADY HAD PERSONAL ISSUES WITH GOD THO I FEARED AND BELIEVED IN HIM, BUT WHY CHOOSE TO TAKE AWAY MY DAD LEAVING ME AND MY TWO SISTERS TO THE MERCY OF NOBODY, WHAT DID I OR MY PARENTS DO TO DESERVE THIS, I THOUGHT. ..

AT 11, WE LOST MUMSY.

OUT OF ALL THE BAD PEOPLE MAKING THIS WORLD BAD, THIS GUY CHOSE TO TAKE MY PARENTS.. . WHY?
TO LET WE INNOCENT KIDS SUFFER, FOR WHAT REASON NAW, TOT HE'S A LOVELY BEING? ?

I CONTINUED TO FEEL DISAPPOINTED WITH GOD BUT STILL PRAYED WITH HIM OUT OF FEAR THAT I MIGHT DIE A PAINFUL DEATH AND GO TO HELL.

IN 2012, I STOPPED CARRYING MUCH OF CHRISTIANITY IN MY HEART CUZ I COULDN'T IMAGINE OTHER PEOPLE GOING TO HELL AND JUST WE CHRISTIANS GOING TO HEAVEN.

I STOPPED BELIEVING IN JESUS THOUGH I FELT IT WAS RELEVANT TO STILL BELIEVE IN GOD.
BUT NOTHING REASONABLE WAS WORKING FOR I AND MY TWO SISTERS.

DESPITE TAKING AWAY OUR PARENTS THE GUY DIDN'T STILL WANNA MAKE US BE COMFORTABLE, MY BIG SISTER PRAYED AND FASTED FOR 7 YEARS BEFORE GAINING ADMISSION INTO SCHOOL. ..BY THEN MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SUPPOSED TO SPONSOR HER HAD ALREADY DIED. LOL, I WAS IN JS1 WHEN SHE FINISHED SEC, SO YOU SEE THE REALLY WIDE MARGIN BETWEEN OUR AGES.


MEHN.. I CONTINUED TO PRAY TO THIS MAN UNTIL LAST YEAR, BUT BEFORE THEN I STOPPED GOING TO CHURCH AND ENGAGING IN RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES.
I JUST DECIDED ITS NOT POSSIBLE THAT A LOVELY CREATOR WILL LET ME KNOW SADNESS FROM THE TIME I WAS A TODDLER... DOING HARM TO MY FAMILY ALL IN THE NAME OF GOD'S WILL.
MEANWHILE LETTING POOR KIDS SUFFER AND DIE ALL AROUND THE WORLD, LETTING THE WICKED ONES PROSPER EVEN MORE, AND EVEN MAKE HEAVEN IF THEY REPENT ON THEIR DEATH BED.

EVERY THING BECAME SMOOTER FOR ME WHEN I STARTED THINKING AND LOOKING OUTSIDE THE "RELIGION BOX" AND LIFE HAS BEEN EXTREMELY FAIR WITH ME SINCE I STARTED TO WORSHIP IT AND ADORE NATURE.

AS I 😘A KID I LOVED TO READ ABOUT SPACE.. THEN I DIDN'T EVEN THINK IT'S POSSIBLE TO CREATE 9 OR MORE OR LESS PLANETS AND FILL JUST THIS ONE WITH HUMANS. EVEN AFTER DESTROYING THE WORLD BY FLOODING WHY DIDN'T HE JUST RELOCATE NOAH TO SATURN OR RECREATE A NEW MAN ON JUPITER?
HOW WILL AN ALL KNOWING GOD WHO ALREADY KNOWS THE FUTURE, NOT KNOW THAT ADAM WILL EAT THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT.. .. WHY DIDN'T HE REMOVE THE TREE FROM THERE? OR WHY DID HE FORM VEXED AND CURSE THEM WHEN HE ALREADY KNEW THEY WERE GON FCK UP.

HE KNEW CAN WAS GON KILL ABEL, WHY DID HE LET IT HAPPEN ONLY TO FORM VEX AS USUAL, AND CURSE CAIN AND HIS GENERATION.

MEHN I SAW A LOT OF THINGS AS IMPOSSIBLE AND ABSURD IN THE BIBLE AS A KID BUT COULDN'T STOP PRETENDING TO PRAY BECAUSE OF FEAR OF HELL.

WHEN I WAS A TEEN I'LL EVEN ADD IT TO MY PRAYERS. .. I'LL BE LIKE "LORD YOU SEE DEEP DOWN MY MIND, YOU KNOW I REALLY DOUBT AND DISLIKE YOU BUT I'M SCARED OF HELL AND CAN'T STOP DOUBTING YOU CUZ I DON'T SEE ANY REASON TO BELIEVE YOU, BUT PLEASE HAVE MERCY"!

INCASE YOU READING THIS GIBBERISH JUST KNOW I TYPED IT ABSENT MINDED.
PARDON THE IMPROPER GRAMMAR USE AND LACK OF PUNCTUATION I'M JUST TYPING CUZ ITS THE ONLY THING TO DO ON NL..


BUT I DON'T LIKE TO BE CALLED AN ATHEIST, I DON'T LIKE TITLES AND STUFF, I JUST LIVE LIFE BELIEVING IN LIFE, LOVE, SERENITY, CHARITY, AND UHM.. . MASTURBAT!ON!

August21:

Only a fool says there is no God

ARRR! MY FAVORITE BIBLE QUOTE

ireneony:
personal reasons...i don't like to go into details cos i like to keep my outside life private.

Ok! I will say just little
But i doubt if God answers prayers (this is where my doubt started from)
The pagans, they don't believe in God yet things still move smoothly with them, while the Christians will fast, pray and also have faith yet there is no tangible or meaningful things going on in their lives(worsened)

I'm regretting getting more involved in church last year.
It never really impacted any meaningful thing in my life.
In school, i went to a student fellowship. ..i was a passive member for 3yrs..so i decided to become active last year..so i started going to church frequently and their secretariat. Wow i began to see not all that glitters is gold. ..some of the members do sleep over male/female. So oneday i decided to sleep over...so in the middle of the night, i started feeling some touches in my body..lo.and behold, it was the most religious guy in the church.# i slapped him. Iater he was telling it was the devil, pleading and all.
The next morning i reported to the pastor. I was expecting he would be furious. .then he replied maybe he likes you,...just imagine that!.
I was thinking of reporting to the police for sexual harassment (then i remember our system and police is fuuked up)..

All my life I've never been robbed, it was wen i was involved in church activities i got robbed.


I still believe in God but i hate most Christians hypocrisy.
Those holier than thou meanwhile they're the worst.

stephenmorris:
i am an atheist because i see no evidence of god or the judeo christian god not because of the sufferings of the world

August21:
U hv all bn talking. Lemme add mine.

I hv always known dere is God n thru several processes he has proved it.

There was dis tym my Dad wasn't paid fr a full year. We had prayed and prayed cos dad is d breadwinner. Still dere was no hope. I neva doubted Gods power. He drew closer to God. Stopd all forms of immoralities. Lived pure n holy n engaged in mid night prayers specifically against witches n covens.

Some wks later, i dreamt. I saw my dads name in an altar wt d inscription "no progress", n thru out dat night i called on d God dat answers by fire to consume the altar. Dunno but am sure he did cos dat same week, during service my dad was called out by prophecy and d pastor told him dat he saw his name on an altar ( mind you, i had no contact with d man of God). He told him dat d person who is d cause of all dis is a woman n she is going to die.

True to d word of d MOG, 3 wks later we got a call frm our village dat my aunty is dead n bfr she died she mAde some shocking confessions. Immediately after dat my dads salary was released and frm dT tym till nw it has bn promotion upon promotion fr him.

So in my own life i hv lots of reasons to believe God exists n am still redi to share more if u "atheist" like.

August21:
U hv all bn talking. Lemme add mine.

I hv always known dere is God n thru several processes he has proved it.

There was dis tym my Dad wasn't paid fr a full year. We had prayed and prayed cos dad is d breadwinner. Still dere was no hope. I neva doubted Gods power. He drew closer to God. Stopd all forms of immoralities. Lived pure n holy n engaged in mid night prayers specifically against witches n covens.

Some wks later, i dreamt. I saw my dads name in an altar wt d inscription "no progress", n thru out dat night i called on d God dat answers by fire to consume the altar. Dunno but am sure he did cos dat same week, during service my dad was called out by prophecy and d pastor told him dat he saw his name on an altar ( mind you, i had no contact with d man of God). He told him dat d person who is d cause of all dis is a woman n she is going to die.

True to d word of d MOG, 3 wks later we got a call frm our village dat my aunty is dead n bfr she died she mAde some shocking confessions. Immediately after dat my dads salary was released and frm dT tym till nw it has bn promotion upon promotion fr him.

So in my own life i hv lots of reasons to believe God exists n am still redi to share more if u "atheist" like.

virginboy1:
In Summary,

"Why would my creator make me a sexually active entity at a tender age and still tell me not to sex before marriage,abi na because of sex make I marry ni?"

As the urge keeps coming in,I prayed thinking it was the devils work, not until I incidentally come across some books about the psychological and physiological features of man and found out that a part of my brain, d hypothalamus is the culprit.

Well, that is how d curiosity and skepticism started ooo.

But I still go to Church, casually pray incase of incasitive.

In fact "Cognitive dissonance" is what I am exhibiting and I Know.

Sighs.

Greenlandncom:

One of the greatest atheists and Skeptics of all times, David Hume, himself concluded that no one can prove the existence of God just as no one can unprove it.
No satisfactory evidence of the existence of God.

SirWere:


You can't prove non-existence, sir. Flawed logic.