Hoping some atheists can share regarding the below...
- Did you belong to a religion previously?
Yes, I was a Christian before becoming an atheist.
- What was the kicker that basically sent you down the path of investigating atheisms
The lack of evidence I had for my faith. Seeing other Christians routinely humiliated when they tried to prove or share their faith.
- Do you miss theism (if you were into it previously)
Yes, a lot. I loved fire and brimstone Christianity. The faith provided a lot of rough emotions, like fear, angst and sorrow. I became chemically addicted to them, so once I became an atheist, everything feels pretty much dead and gray. Drives me insane just thinking about it. I 2007, I could feel butterflies pretty much all day, but when I lost my faith in 2008, my emotions all pretty much died. It's literally like a 99% lost in emotional feeling.
I have ideas of how to reboot it, but so far.. not much. Depression and feeling like I'm in a hole isn't helping either..
Do I miss God? No, I never looked to him for comfort.
- What do you think people think gods are?
Hmm.. I don't know.. I wonder why they are called super natural beings. If they're real, they are as natural as the rest of us. I like to ask Christians what makes God worthy of worship and intrinsically higher than us, and I usually get no answer.
