Were you a theist who became atheist, or an atheist who became theist?
I find it interesting that many who were theists become atheists; however, from my very limited experience, it seems those who are atheists rarely become theists.
Obviously it wouldn’t be fair to conclude anything based on such a small poll, but I would like to try to make a point based on the results.
I was an atheist last night for about 3 minutes, but I’m all better now.
haha. 
I was an atheist (and a particularly militant one) until I was 17 (am 18 now). I’m now a theist.
Darn, we might have caught eachother at the wrong time. I went theist last night and woke up atheist!
SilentSoliloquy
How’s the water over there? You aren’t really missing much on my side.
Ha, polluted with evolutionists!!
Oh, can I borrow a cup? We’re running low over here.
Was raised atheist. Had a brief stint in middle school where I went to church, tuned in to buddy Rush and was right wing in my politics.
Take that Mom and Dad!
But like most teenage rebellions, I got over myself.
I couldn’t vote in the poll, scope is too narrow.
Hold on to beliefs only as long as they serve to promote direction in life. At the moment the beliefs become perfunctory, and not a matter of the qualitative forward movement of living, they are dead.
My lira’s worth anyways.
That’s awesome. I didn’t know people really did the reverse rebelling thing. Did you meet anyone else who did that?
I was raised Roman Catholic (emphasis on the “Roman” – as I was raised it was a Roman-pagan-like religion of rituals and public requirements with little interiority), and (who would have guessed?) became an atheist.
Does the term “always” imply, at least poetically, some kind of metaphysical existence?
I think most have been atheist, tried theism, found it hard, then decided to take up a much easier spoon fed atheism. I could be wrong though, maybe it’s just the dogma talking, shhh dogma, settle boy.
When I was born, I was an atheist.
[size=150]The natural instincts [which God created me with?], the instincts which make me feel emotionally drawn towards food, water, and the opposite sex… I had no natural, inborn desire for God. Considering how my eternal life depends on it, I tend to have FAR LESS survival instincts programmed towards God, as compared to survival instincts programmed away from me cutting my throat or starving myself to death.[/size]
I was born without faith in God. I was born without a desire to know God.
Later on, people told me that God was really good, and that God had the answers. I saw that it was a really big group of people who believed this, so I trusted them.
Later I found Jewish perfectionism, and pitched it out.
I became ‘theistic’ in some sense of the world, accknolwedging higher beings and amaterial beings, but not inslaving myself to them or thinking that they made everything.
i can’t vote. i was a christian, then agnostic, then christian again.
Always? Well, for untold billions of years I didn’t even exist. Or are you just counting since birth?
A hypothesis of countless cults/religions seeking to explain why not everyone believes what they believe. I wonder if you came up with that hypothesis on your own, or received it via “spoon fed theism”.
As odd as this seems I have always been kind of awed by nature but dismayed with humanity. That is just one of the reasons I am an athiest. I feel that much more is going on and have my breath taken away at the simplest things, like waking up to a nice breeze and the sun shining. It is those moments I live for. I also grew up with a vested interest in the Eastern mindset and continue to this day.
My astromorphic body wants to touch you.
You sound like an appreciative spirit.
Something tender and deep, which shall not forsake or be forsaken.
Yeah it was original, just like the words you use.