15-Day Atheist Challenge

1. At what point did you know you were an atheist? Why did you become one, what were the factors leading up to the decision, if you weren’t always one?

I realized I no longer had any god belief about age 15 but had no idea what atheism was until about a year later. I picked up Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian at a used bookstore, and that was the first time I realized there were others like me who didn’t accept all this god stuff.

Losing my god belief never felt like a decision. I compare it to no longer believing in Santa Claus because that wasn’t a decision either. It just happened. I realized that gods weren’t necessary to explain anything.