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When did you stop believing in Christianity in your country and what did you replace it with? Did you replace it with anything or are you atheist now?

>>213645136 (OP)
I am European at this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my own intelligence.

Only Muslims care about "believing" in things. We civilized people accepted the fact that the existence of a higher power is meaningless. Religion is about what's culturally accepted( what calander you use, what is seen okay by the majority of the people).

When I was about 17, I used to go to a youth group at the nearest Catholic church, I remember seeing more respect between people in my internship than in the church. Boys who didn't know people or didn't had relatives inside the group were excluded, while ugly girls were also excluded, while all the pretty girls were invited to all sorts of parties after the meetings along with boys who knew people inside of it. And that's just 1% of it.
I didn't replaced with anything, i guess i just don't care anymore, religion isn't something that comes to my mind often.

>>213645136 (OP)
Give me a reason to follow a foreign religion when I have my own

>>213645136 (OP)
Became an atheist as a grown ass adult. I was almost thirty I think.

>>213645136 (OP)
I don't think I ever believed

I was raised Mormon but I left the church and eventually Christianity when I realized the entire religion is built on fear. Fear of damnation, fear of consequences for not following commandments, fear of ostracization from family for not going to church, etc. Even now my parents still tell me to go back to church because they fear for my soul or whatever. They fear for my kid that isn't baptized. It's constant, nonstop fear.
If God truly loves his children as we are taught then why do they have to constantly act in fear? And if he is truly all powerful, why do we have to follow some convoluted scheme to be forgiven? Why can't he simply forgive those who believe?
A lot of stuff happened in my life that made we question my faith and ultimately leave Christianity and question the belief in a god.
I discovered Buddhism and it just made more sense. It felt right for me and brought me the joy that Christianity never gave me. I've been learning a lot and decided to get involved with the sangha in my city and visit the temple

>>213645136 (OP)
Jesus Christ is my Lord, and will always be.

>>213645136 (OP)
> When did you stop believing in Christianity
Never, I’m still a Christian

>>213645427
Russian Orthodox?

>>213645471
Reddit poof
>>213645403
>We civilized people accepted the fact that the existence of a higher power is meaningles
you're hungarian

>>213645557
You seem mad

Went to a Lutheran school with religious classes and weekly goings to the church next door but I don't think I ever believed in it. I remember praying so my parents stop fighting, as it naturally had no effect I decided that there was nothing to it.

>>213645557
You are a Slavic immigrant to New Zealand.

>>213645499
It's still foreign no matter what you call it

>>213645136 (OP)
I went the other way around, from atheist to Christian after studying different religions and even dabbling in magick/esoteric traditions

I converted to the only true religion, which is Islam, when an imam opened my eyes with his wisdom.

>>213645136 (OP)
I was raised by a biblical literalist but I cannot epistemologically reason religion. everyone seems to have a fancy explanation that all boils down to utilitarianism or irrational adherence that is not too disimilair to gambling. While gambling and utilitarianism are two interesting poles for the entire world to swing on im not sure if hanging yourself on that rope is all its cracked up to be.

>>213645403
"At this moment, I am euphoric". XDDDD

>>213645136 (OP)
I actually had a phase when I was 17-18 about converting to Catholicism
But, because of the laws regarding apostasy here, no church would ever want to make me a catechumen

>>213645136 (OP)
I worship SOL INVICTVS

>>213645735
> t.Omar Medina Alcázar.

>>213645136 (OP)
Never believed in it as I’m a muslim. Unfortunately I didn’t always adhere to the rules but I changed that about 5 years ago. I did lose a couple friends because of that but I’m far more content with my life now.

When I was 6 years old I realized god is just another one of the imaginary friends I had and I decided it was time to grow up and stop wishing for miracles

All abrahamic religions are cringe

call me selfish but i was done with god when a very kind and noble person i personally knew died from cancer. am i a hypocrit for only caring when it affected me personally? maybe.its always gods bigger plan but i just cannot fathom how the all loving and knowledgeable god would let something this cruel and unfair happen to a person who never wronged anybody or anything in their life. its been so long since their death and i still think about it all the time.

>>213645136 (OP)
>When did you stop believing in Christianity in your country and what did you replace it with?

When i was 16, realised it's a man made belief like all of them. I didn't replaced it with anything, i don't think about this kind of stuff.

Did you replace it with anything or are you atheist now?

To me having a creationist entity that resulted in our existence makes more sense than a "God" with a human rationality that "created" us as beings to "his image" and everything that's in the sphere of existence in 6 days and then on the 7th he took rest(lol), or the belief that our existence appeared due to a fucking explosion and then from atoms or whatever microcells shit evolved with no logic push into whatever we are now

>>213645136 (OP)
I replaced it with Islam.
Islam just made more sense to me since it is a pure belief in God.

>>213646643
Saar

>>213645403
>We civilized people
>flag

>>213646643
GOOD MORNING SAAR

>>213645136 (OP)
i grew up in latter day saints church but i stopped attending service and church activities when i was around 16. i never stepped away from god just organized church. it was really good actually. not all free churches are ran by "lunatics" so to speak

>>213645136 (OP)
never started all i know about it is from usa movies/shows , why would you assume im one of those chisteins?

>>213645136 (OP)
I've never been highly religious. I do believe there's something after death but I've no idea what it is.
I try to treat other people like I want to be treated, if Yahweh or other gods exists hopefully they'll be merciful when all is said and done.

>>213646662
>>213646772
More respectful then I expected.

>>213646791
A Mormon in Sweden? Wild
How many of you are there?

>>213647122
no not mormon lds is a free church here but its just another free church not mormonism. my parents lost a child before i was born and i guess that church helped them the most through that so they joined it. anyways only good things imo but nothing for me

>>213645136 (OP)
I'm simply agnostic

Porsche 911 GT3RS is law

>>213647265
Latter Day Saints is Mormon though. "Mormon" is just their nickname

>>213645136 (OP)
about the time i learned to read and think

>>213647585
here they dont share the typicall traits that the mormon church does its just a free church like so many others

>>213645136 (OP)
also your question doesnt make sense since atheism is The replacement for thoose who still need something to believe in or identify as. the third option you didnt mention is to just leave it all behind and live on. its like me asking you whats your favourite farm tractor, chain saw, surgery knife, anal dildo, scart cable, 6,5x55 hunting charge, mascara, refrigeration vacuum pump, air fryer, window hinge producer... atleast one of these should be totally irrelevant or strange to you and something you have no opinion or knowledge about yet you live happily anyway. thats what religion is like once you stop believing.

>>213646005
And yet you still seethe like a good Muslim whenever there is the slightest mention of Israel, you can get the arab out of arabia but you cannot get arabia out of the arab

I don't know why or when I stopped believing, it just happened slowly over time I guess.

>>213645136 (OP)
>When did you stop believing in Christianity in your country
i was raised Catholic and left between the ages of 14-22 years old
>and what did you replace it with
initially /pol/ chuddism and then later communism
>Did you replace it with anything or are you atheist now?
nope, i came back to the Catholic church after i had a few very convincing visions and dreams of Mary, Christ, and other biblical figures back in 2022. i’ve been happily back in the Catholic Church since then.

>>213645136 (OP)
I was always an atheist, never believed in god not even when I was a child

>>213648237
They're gonna kick you out of Israel

>>213645136 (OP)
i was never a christian. when i was born (late 80's) religion was still banned and growing up it was never part of my life. to this day i've never even seen a bible in real life

I never believed
I was raised in an atheist family
I am a theist now though

for me it was never a question of "if christianity isn't true then islam is" or whatever. i don't believe any abrahamic religion to be true

>>213646791
>i grew up in latter day saints church
why do so many scandis get involved in that shit?

>>213645136 (OP)
i'm a pagan larper now

>>213649793
Believing metaphysics are so black and white it's either Christianity or Islam is pretty weird, given we know next to nothing about it

>>213645688
tengri will crown a new khan soon my brother

>>213645688
so do you follow slavic paganism?

>>213645566
ok
>>213645633
?

I remember when I was 12 I felt bad for jacking off in the shower on Christmas. Later when I got older and smarter and noticed there are plenty of religions and all of them claim to be the one true religion while at the same time none of them are compatible with modern science or basic human morals I realized it's just a scam from some older time. I get why someone who's isolated from the rest of the world would be religious but you'd have to be pretty retarded to be a a religious person when you have unlimited access to the internet

When i was told as a kid that I wasn't allowed to hang out with another kid because his family didn't go to our church

>>213645136 (OP)
I never did

>>213648606
jews don't believe in god they believe in satan o algo asi

>>213645136 (OP)
>When did you stop believing in Christianity
Never

>>213655635
I don't disagree that Jews are satanists, but are they really stupid enough to believe they can win a bet with Satan? Because even if they screw the rest of us over they'll still go to hell

>>213645136 (OP)
It came out of blue and it only got stronger as I studied the origins of the Jewish myths. El Baal and Asherah, the epic of Gilgamesh, etc.

>>213645136 (OP)
When I was 14 or so. I believed because growing up every adult in my life did and my private school was religious. But as an adult it really is baffling to see other adults believe in superstition like that. I do lose a bit or respect for someone if I find out they do. Call me a fedora tipper all you want

I have a friend I helped finding a church that wasn't state run, and that's all well and good, he's happy and that's great. Problem is he gets more and more extremist about it. The kinda guy where scripture is everything. I'm a faggot so it gets a bit weird when he starts talking about how being gay is almost like being a satanist. There's other things too, like female preachers, but I kinda fear I might lose a friend because he went too far down the Lutheran rabbit hole.

Blog post over, thanks for reading.

>>213645136 (OP)
>When did you stop believing in Christianity
Grew up irreligious like 90% of the population here.
I've only ever known one person who was religious and he was the weird kid in school.

>>213645136 (OP)
you know what's weird as a kid i never believed in anything. sure i went to church and was raised in it but everything was done through fear. I feared evryone turnign my arm if i didnt kneel right or paddlign me in the parking lot after church. i would constantly pester my parents as a little toddler autist and ask them why people didnt just kill themselves since life is meaningless and i asked them why we visited grandma is she was gunna die soon
but i think as i got older and less edgy once i left elementary school since my parents got less and less intimidating and i was no longer fearful of them beating me or cutting me but of me listening the void and doing it to them
now as an adult i understand that all morality derives from fear. fear of pain or death or shame or whatever and even if 'God' isn't real it doesn't make a difference because fear, war, etc... are still there. even if there wasn't a bible passage by father could point at to why the cane he used was the proper size he would fine something else the economy wouldn't change, my mother be a zombie of her parents wouldn't change, it would be all the same, you could say jesus made you do it, the devil, reason, justice, truth whatever it doesn't matter, your still going to knock the teeth out of that kid and feel better for it because your always right your the father, your god whatever you want to call yourself if you couldn't find someone saying your doing it right you'll find someone who will, a noble lie to show that your a killer not a murderer and your a executioner not a killer and your justice not an executioner. your waltz all the way down the thesaurus of ideas until your satisfied, print it, sign it and cross your heart. and anything less or more then that and your just kidding yourself. whatever yo want to call that, Satan? memetics? the devil? God? materialism? Goddess? fate? cycles? apocalypses? nothing? something? , I don't give a rats ass. it all tastes the same in the end

>>213645136 (OP)
my parents never drilled any of that into me

>>213645136 (OP)
Never started. Religion isn't really a thing here.

All this talk is proof that Christianity is dying. You are all going to join Islam in the next decade.

>>213656484
https://www.religionwatch.com/significant-numbers-of-young-refugees-converting-to-christianity-in-sweden/

>>213656484
You can hate Islam without being Christian, y'know?

>>213656484
????? Smartest moslem in indonesia btw

>>213656484
>if you're not Christian, you must be muslim
999 IQ logic.

>>213645136 (OP)
Christians are too timid. You guys should be out on the streets doing public events. Giving out free food and engaging people in discussions. The Christian society at my university did that and was well regarded for it. The two dozen churches in my town are less relevant in daily life than a random uni club started by Bible nerds.

>>213645136 (OP)
Always been atheist. My first contact with religion was history class in like 5th grade or something when we learned about the world religions.

>>213645136 (OP)
Never started, so there was never a religion hole that needed to be filled. Always been an atheist.
Went through the nihilist to existentialist pipeline when I was a young adult. That's about all I needed, outside of stoicism.

For all I know, Heaven is indifferent to our suffering. So we might as well live our own lives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adHwtOLoVjE

>>213645735
Like mohammad and the men of zutt?

>>213646643
>quran sun sets in muddy water
>it more sense

>>213656358
Every place has it's religion. It just goes by different names. Cultural norms is one of them.

>>213656752
Well, what do you want to be then? Hindu? Surely not

>>213657482
Sweden is irreligious.

>>213645136 (OP)
atheists can't breed and are trannies

>>213645136 (OP)
I never believed in it until i got depressed and suicidal and took it off by thinking about christ
Is good cope for those with nothing left
Altough i now cry... For the lord died...

>>213657482
Swedes worship black rappers and americans as a symbol of status
They obey to no god but their matriarchs and the status quo aproved media

Their lack of religion is replaced by some secular cult of black male worship, sodomy and faux morality based on a combination of a misled construction of empathy, human rights, cultural marxism, jewish progressive rethorics, liberal idealism and post ww2 grooming

>>213656484
Looking at the numbers, the future will be atheistic and islamic. Great. Deuteronomy 28:15-68
>>213656624
Masturbating because a little amount of people converted to Christianity, while in 10 years, islam grew by 300 million people. Typical, I see it everywhere.

>>213656484
Islam will be outlawed in the West.

>>213659808
kek

>>213645136 (OP)
I was never religious. I never went to any sort religious event in a church or whatever when I was a child, and I wasn't baptised. Being atheist/agnostic is just the way I've always been

>>213657482
I don't want to be a part of any religion. It's all fairy tale nonsense. Religion is the opiate of the people

>>213645136 (OP)
From the day I was born.
I wasn't being taught of Jewish fairytales by my parents or anyone else.
Why should I replace it with anything?
I wouldn't say that I'm an atheist, I'm more like agnostic.

>>213646537
I don’t know about Italy but we don’t eat manure here it might be used in agriculture though.

>>213648012
Well you guys make it really easy to hate you.

>>213661676
>here it might be used in agriculture though
100% your veggies have been sprayed with pig shit, enjoy hell abdullah

>>213661676
>>213661698
You know nigga there is no way you are escaping this, Allah sees and knows everythibg and you bet your brown ass he saw you moving out of your islamic nation to live among the kuffar, and then willfully ignore the fact the kuffar spray pig shit as fertilizer on the veggies you have been eating for years, because you are too dumb of a fuck to ever think about it even though the evidence was right before your eyes.
It's game over, bitch

The smartest people on earth (Jews) tend to be either non observant religious or straight up messianic zealots in breeding cults

Their slave races (mostly the whites) are generally atheistic
At the same time low iq races like Arabs escape foreign domination by being Islamic, in fact Arabs and islamists control street culture and all the "witty" things that require social intelligence in europe
They run the gangs, black markets, popular culture and often dominate in environments like the schools (european kids get bullied and treated like bitches by them)

I think the lesson is that religious people tends to be more dominant while irreligious people tends to be more servile and submissive
In a way but makes sense, religious people borrows their mind to a outer idea, and this idea transforms them into attack animals
Whereas irreligious peoplebis more like bacteria

>>213661698
>>213661766
Just put the pizza on the bag, Pancito

>>213645735
>fake subversion
You subhumans need to be kicked out

>>213646643
>I'm american, you must trust me

>>213645136 (OP)
Never was Christian, neither of my parents are religious. I did study a lot of religious arguments in college because I majored in philosophy but the atheist/agnostic position is just way stronger from a rational perspective. At best something like Deism or some type of mysticism might hold truth, but organized religion is pretty obvious bullshit.

>>213645136 (OP)
I'm Swedish. Grew up without religion. Just seems ridiculous to me.
The only religious folks I've come into contact with has been mentally ill Jehovas before our government outlawed door-to-door knocking for such things.

>>213645136 (OP)
I am neither atheist nor religious because that is a dialectic trap

>>213656484
Middle East is secularizing, they even have halloween in Saudia Arabia now

>>213645136 (OP)
>>213645448
>>213647899
>>213649892
Religion er historien bak filosofi og politikk,- for de ulærde.
Det å bli apatisk til hele greia er litterær idioti. Du trenger ikke snakke om din mening til noen som helst, fordi de fleste er innavlede kåvpere. Men, det å avslutte din egen reise mot sannhet fordi andre rundt deg er dumme, er enda dummere.

>>213645136 (OP)
Is this the non edited pic without that dead guy with a hard on on the cross lmao

>>213666594
Jeg er ikke apatisk, din tilbakestående mongo.

>>213667048
rasist

>>213655735
you need to go back paco

>>213656718
He is kind of right though.
Although not all Ex-Christians convert to Islam they are mostly atheists after.

>>213645136 (OP)
I believe Vivec from Morrowind is an actual existing deity that may be connected to Christ.

>>213666594
why do you reply in norwegian?

Wasn’t raised as anything in particular, discovered Thomism in university, became Catholic 8 years ago

>>213666594
en jødisk religion fra ørkenen er ikke min reise til sannheten, sorry.

>>213645136 (OP)
I stopped believing in atheism when Jesus Christ visited me. I will always be Catholic.

The only thing I believe in is violence

>>213645136 (OP)
I'm a brown white supremacist and I believe that Christianity led to the fall of the Roman Empire

>>213645136 (OP)
Even though I was raised a Christian and was Christened when I was 6/7, I never believed or felt a connection with Jesus, just God. I've been a theist all my life.