Well you know me, radically inquisitive and a formerly closet freethinker...the fact that I would base my beliefs in dogma seems highly unlikely.
Here are a couple of reasons why I became an atheist:
If one has doubts about God, meaning that one recognises the possibility that God might not exist, they are an agnostic theist. Let's break it down...
Atheism: Without God
Agnosticism: Without knowledge
Atheism and theism are about belief, while agnosticism and gnosticism are about knowledge. What pulled me towards atheism was the fact that I had a belief in God, but I had no knowledge of God's existence (''I don't know whether God exists but I believe he exists''), it would be impossible to have scientifically sound knowledge over God's existence. By definition I was already an agnostic theist. Afterwards any remaining beliefs I had about God capitulated, I found that my religion had too many logical fallacies and contradictions. Thus one can argue that most Christians have a little bit of atheism within them...you simply need to doubt God a little and you're already in the agnostic camp
The following quote by Thomas Paine (a Deist freethinker) pretty much summarises my views on religion:
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church."
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