Are you an Atheist?

I don't know what makes me an atheist. I was born an atheist?

I grew up believing in God but in my teens, for a while, I stopped believing mainly because my religion did not make any sense and when 20 started thinking seriously about everything and came to see so much evidence that God existed. One teaching that did not make any sense was "hell-fire", that the wicked are thrown into an everlasting fire where they will burn forever. How could God make such a place? Why is the devil, who is wicked, be allowed to run a place where he can torture people forever? I have met a few atheists and found that they are all different and so I usually ask them how did they become an atheist?

Am not an atheist nor do I like they compulsion to try ridiculing others. They just can't digest that others have some beliefs they don't share. Pretty rude persons!

I'm not an atheist. There is one member on this site who is an atheist whom I have good discussions with. We respect each other and we are able to share our views in a proper manner. Many atheists I think have lost faith in religion not God. It is my belief that atheism itself is a religious movement which satan supports. But if a person is truly an atheist they don't believe in any of this so to an atheist that is meaningless.

I am an Apatheist.

More and more people these days attracted to be an agnostic rather than a pure atheist, and some people thinking that it's cool to be one, so they be. And some of them are actually arrogant also narcissist, but some of them too are very humbled by their knowledge (or lack of knowledge). My ex bf is an agnostic so are some of my friends, but I'm a proud monotheist. The thing is they, who dare to declare as an atheist/agnostic, mostly had their journey trying to proves/disproves something, so they know more about theology than the non-practitioners who claim themselves as part of some particular religion. I think have faith in God is more than about believe in His existence just because, sometimes all you need to do is to choose to believe rather than waiting/looking for proves. Well...practicing religion is a way of physical life, while faith is the way for the soul. About which God or religion is just matter of the journey.

I grew up going to a Pentecostal church. By the time I was a young woman I was on the border. Now I'd say I'm probably atheist, or maybe agnostic. I've spent a great portion of my life watching the God fearing people I loved living rough lives and dying horrible deaths. I have prayed and prayed and prayed and watched every prayer go unanswered. Meanwhile other people are praising God for his goodness and talking in great lengths about the miracles He has worked for their families. It has come in my mind to 2 choices. 1. There is not really a God or 2. There IS a God, but he has forsaken me and my family while giving his blessing to others. Choice 1 seems less painful than choice 2. PS. The "Christian" response to why my prayers are never answered is always, "God always answers prayers, but you don't always get the answer you like" which would point to choice 2...instead of giving relief to my family and myself He chose to say NO to all our prayers.

no. i have religio. in my country people who proclaim him self atheist in public will go to jail

I know a few....they are just people who don't believe in things they can't understand with logic and reason and proof. It is just another way of thinking. I am not religious myself, but i do believe in the power of nature and energies.