re: What was your moment where you were convinced there isn't a god?

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If you do not believe, then be silent for 5 minutes each day, and say, "Speak Lord, your servant is listening.", then listen silently. Write down whatever comes into your mind and heart. God speaks very softly.
After a week review what you have written.

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I just tried this and the first thing I wrote down is “steve shaw is a twat.” It’s gonna be a long week.

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It's obvious humans are animals, you don't need psychedelics for that. 

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I "knew" it, but in the same way I know the ocean is deep. I reached a deeper understanding that night thanks to that cow pasture.

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There's another thread for you to share your Christian experiences.

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You mean the one where you share your doubt in someone's moment of believing in God?
That's rich

What a dick stick

There was a time when I stopped believing in God. After many years of searching, I believe again in some sort of higher power. Not like I did before. Not in the biblical god, per se, just a higher power or creator that I know very little about.

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Not really at all even if God is benevolent. I’ve said on here that I view God at his base level as being nature and therefore his will is the way of nature. People living with free will within the systems of nature. And nature is brutal

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What does this mean? If god is simply nature, then he’s not god in the biblical sense. Your idea of god sounds a lot like an atheist.

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And I think it is completely possible to love something and be effectively objectively isolated. People do it all the time.

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No, this is not true at all. Do you have a child? Would you ever, for any reason, allow your child to die when you have the power to prevent it? Walk around a children’s hospital sometime and see the little kids with cancer. If a benevolent god exists, then there’d be no need for children’s hospitals to even exist.

It only makes sense if you define god as either not benevolent, not existing, or not omnipotent.

This thread probably won't last

Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky

at about nine or 10 when I reached the age of reason.

12 years old. My grandfather died unexpectedly. After that I stopped believing in a deity that cared about humanity. Eventually I stopped believing at all.

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Ah, yeah, the mysterious ways thing

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"God needed another angel"



The mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance required to believe in god in 2018 is impressive. I think much of it can me attributed to indoctrinating children.