>>798930>what was your journey to atheism like?Throughout the years, I read parts of the bible, not all of it in its entirety, mostly the old testament and the revelation, so things like Noah's ark, the story of Moses, Sodom and Gomorrah, plus whatever else I learned in catechism. Basically, I had a logical mind even in my youth, so I deduced the absurdity of the scenarios these stories presented, and was also unconvinced by their morals. It all felt so fantastical, no different from dungeons and dragons. Since I don't believe in dragons or other fantastical beasts - Tolkien's Middle Earth isn't a real place - why should I believe in this sort of thing? I also was unconvinced by the sorts of rhetoric that they filled my head with in catechism, general platitudes like "God works in mysterious ways" any time I asked for a material explanation of God's will, or why the world works in the ways that it does. Finally, I stopped talking to God once I realized that no one was actually listening. People like to attribute good outcomes to God's will, and then make excuses for God's failure to intervene when they experience bad outcomes, which is an irrational double standard.
>did you pass through agnosticismI'm more or less still an agnostic atheist, but the admittance that there may be some phenomena that is outside of my perception out there in the universe is something that I will always have to acknowledge. This alone is not a good argument for the possible existence of a God, and can't be used as convincing evidence, so as time goes on I afford the possibility of God less and less credence, but it's always going to sort of be there, isn't it?
>do you have a concept of a historical jesusI'm not historian, so I take no stance on the issue. I don't see why a historical Jesus couldn't have existed, but he most certainly was not the son of God, and should be viewed as nothing more than a particularly influential philosopher of his time.