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

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I'm more likely to believe we live in a simulation than I am to believe in any sort of deity.

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I tend to think of these concepts as one and the same. The closest thing humans have to compare the fabric of our reality to is a computer simulation. What is a computer but an artificial “mind,” and what happens within “thoughts”?

Personally I think thought is the basic unit of reality, and the closest thing we have to compare the mind of God to is a computer.

Same, my wife and I grew up Catholic. Our kids are both baptized in the Catholic church. We go to as many Sunday masses as we can, yet I sit there wondering the entire time if I'm really doing right by my kids and my wife by being there. Half the time I feel like I'm at a cult rally. The other half I feel bad for not participating to the fullest. I fall somewhere in the middle and find myself going out of habit/expectation more than anything.

I do believe in some higher power. Maybe it's God. Maybe it's a muse. Maybe it's the quantum physics of the universe. Regardless, I believe heavily in every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Do good, good will find you. Be positive, positive things will find you. Blah..blah..blah. I don't know if it's right or wrong or if what I'm associating it all with is appropriate, but I don't think you need a God to follow that thought process. I also don't think I have a pedestal to demean others one way or the other. The people who act like they do are the worst.

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What's always puzzled me is, of all the great miracles that jesus did, where is the monuments or the statues or the anything for that matter

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In every Catholic church in the world. Have you never seen a picture of the Christ the Redeemer statue of Jesus Christ in Rio? This has to be sarcasm right?

When I had the ability to think for myself

I dont know that there isnt a god but I believe that all religions are bull shite and the odds of them getting it right are slim to none.

I definitely dont believe god, whatever it is, is what Christians, muslims, etc believe him to be.

I dont remember the exact moment that I quite being religious but I was really committed to the catholic faith up until about age 19 or so. I think a contradiction in the bible (I dont remember which one exactly, there are many) got me thinking about it. It was kind of a tough time, I was realizing that everything I'd lived my life for up to that point was a crock of shite.


Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

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When I learned about the Holocaust as a kid as well as not believing in any of the tall tales like Jonah and the whale and Noah's Ark, Jesus walking on water, turning water into wine, etc. All of that struck me as illogical as a child but didnt really manifest into me flat out challenging it and not believing it until around late middle school. Then learning about how corrupt the church of any kind is (anything with power really) which is compounded by all the rape that goes and is constantly covered up, around high school I became very rebellious about it. I'd say Im probabaly agnostic now because I really just don't give a frick about any of it.

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This answer is spot on. I shall claim it as my own.

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

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When I learned what pediatric cancer was.

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Realized an un-god-like life was super fun

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Hey you stole that from Huxley.

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I'm more likely to believe we live in a simulation than I am to believe in any sort of deity.

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Who wrote the sim? Or did the sim just magically appear?

I haven't reached that point yet