I used to be religious, but (perspective sharing - I want to hear from you)

I was raised in a household that did not regularly attend church until I was about age 7/8 or so, then I was in a Lutheran church until my teenaged years. At one point, I actually believed in a god, heaven, hell, the devil, the Bible, etc. But I think that was just because this stuff was being pushed down my throat in church and my parents believed it, so it just was. I guess I must have been 14 or 15 and I started learning more and more about the world and science, and things just did not make sense anymore. I could not reconcile the new realities about the world I lived in with Christianity. A big eye opener was finally learning about evolution. That was in 9th grade....I don't remember learning about it before at all! Then I started reading about all the terrible things that were going on in the world, and all the atrocities that have occurred in the history of the world. I could not compute that "God" would be able to let these things happen if he is all-powerful and all-loving. Also, learning about the universe really helped. When I really started getting a grasp on how vast and endless our universe is, it made me realize the earth is basically nothing but a speck in all of existence. So I started losing my faith in any type of god existing. Over time, that faith dwindled further and further as I learned more and more until now I identify myself as atheist (agnostic atheist).

I feel like my turning point was when I was able to get my mind outside of my Christianity bubble for just a bit, and I started asking myself questions about my belief in "God". I stopped blindly believing and starting doubting and being more critical. My thought processes matured as I became a teenager, and it allowed me to think about the world and the universe more logically. I kept asking questions and kept finding it harder to answer. It got to the point where I could not logically believe in "God" given all the evidence against it.

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