4 Weird Questions That Might Make You an Atheist

Remember to give me your unusual questions about god! If I get some interesting ones, I might have to make another video like this!

I remember when one of the people preaching at my church said, “don’t question it too much or the devil might confuse you”

For me the whole idea of "God loves you unconditionally but if you don't bealive in him he will send you for ethernal suffering" and "It's all God's plan he's too perfect for us to understand it" is extremely gaslighting.

My favorite to toss around at church as a kid was that if god has a predetermined plan for everything youve spent most of your life actively fighting gods plan with prayers

Teenager here, was debating with my highly religious dad the other day about my personal beliefs and how he tries to convert me to christianity and i told him how i listened to him and never ever took anything as it is and always highly researched every aspect of everything i choose to believe. What he said after that was along the lines of “i wish you weren’t so smart for your age. Sometimes being dumb and not questioning and going with the crowd is better”.

my question was: Why would a so-described fair and loving God first create me when I didn’t ask to be created, and then condemn me to eternal suffering and damnation for losing a game I didn’t ask to play? late edit: my statement was not “I wish I wasn’t created”, it was “I didn’t ask to be created”. There’s a stark difference.

I remember when one of my classmates asked our religion teacher "what if Jesus was just really smart took advantage of how dumb people were?" They got suspended for two weeks and wasn't allowed on the computers for 3 months

I was raised christian. Somewhere in my pre-teens I began to question all the other religions. Why were there so many different religions and gods? Then I begun to ask what separates christianity from other religions............ that answer lead me to atheism. I think I understand why religion is important, but I also understand that a lot of it is purely a cultural hand-me-down.

i remember in 9th grade we were learning about the big bang theory and everyone was asking how and why questions to the teacher and she just goes "don't question it too much because it leads to atheism"

The question that broke it for me was the whole "if you repent and accept god into your heart all sins are forgiven". I then asked the priest would Adolf Hitler or Pol Pot be forgiven if they repented. Of course, he said God forgives all who accept him in their heart. So god forgives the very worst human being if they worship him? But if you are good, but you don't worship him you are punished with eternal pain? It seemed like un-controlled psychopathic narcissism to me.

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I used to ask a lot as a kid, "what happens to people who never get a chance to learn about God?" The answer usually was, "They go to heaven anyway." Took me a while to come up with a follow up question: "Then shouldn't we keep it a secret?" That's what finally changed my mindset.

Following are some of the questions regarding Christianity that lead me to become a non believer. 1. Why do some people get the privilege of living for 70-80 years even after commiting all kinds of sins, but a new born dies a few days or even hours before they're born? We are told that suffering is a way for God to test our faith in him, but those new born babies die even before they could understand what suffering is. My own elder sister died when she was 3 years old and i get really frustrated when people say God called her to be with himself in heaven; a place none of us have seen. 2. What is the purpose of praying, exactly? There is a 50-50 chance we'll get what we prayed for. When our prayers do not get answered, we just say that God did what was best for us. Then why would you even bother praying in the first place, when he is going to do what he wants at the end? 3. My dad taught me that everything I am, everything I do, think or say is advocated by God. They are God's words not mine. So this whole thing about me questioning my faith in God, must also be something that he wants me to do. No? Of course when i do things that are considered good by the church or the society, it would be considered God's Will or God's Plan. But if i do the opposite, it is my own doing, something I am fully responsible for, that God does not want me to do. 4. We all know about Jesus' painful journey up the Calvary mountain during his last days. Every Friday, during the lent season, we remember this journey that lead to his crucifixion and eventual death. During Good Friday, there is a dramatic representation of the same shown to the people. Every torturous detail of the soldier's cruelty is narrated throughout the enactment. I remember seeing this for the time when i was 4 years old and being absolutely horrified by it. I had continuous nightmares about nails going through Jesus' hands and legs as he was being nailed on the cross. Do people really think it's ethical to show kids that young something like that?

I remember when I first started questioning the Bible, and it was in church about God testing Job. Short version, Satan states Job only loves God because his life is good. If his life was tough, he wouldn't love God. God allows Satan to test Job with bad things. Now, the question that came to mind when hearing this as a child, "Why?" Why does God allow this? If God was all knowing, he knows what will happen. Satan knows God knows everything. What is the point of this experiment? If God loves us, why torture someone to prove something that is already known? Let's change characters. My friend Bob from accounting says my dog only loves me because I treat it well. If I were to be cruel to the dog, it would stop loving me. So I then go and kick the dog to prove it loves me. That isn't love, that is abuse. If I loved the dog, I would have told Bob from accounting to go to hell, I'm not going to hurt something I love just to show off it loves me. If I did, I didn't really love the dog. When I was married, I didn't hit or cheat on my wife to show the world she loves me. Who in the world would say a man who abuses his wife and dog loves them? So why is God bowing to Satan's demands? What does God have to prove to Satan? What audience is God proving this to?

The concept of prayer started my questioning. I was always told to pray about it. You see people with cancer pray to be cured and they beat it and proclaim it was their faith and the power of prayer, while 10 more do the same, with the same devotion, and still die.

The first one I had when I started questioning about God and religion was: If God really wants everyone to worship him and will deem anyone else to hell, why don't we just have a single universal religion? If he is omnipotent, it shouldn't be that hard to just spread the exact same religion to everyone in the whole world.

I was raised Mormon. I was also born with a chronic pain condition. I hurt everywhere all the time, because my immune system thinks my own nerves are a low-level threat and creates constant inflammation around them. Naturally, no matter how many times a group of men huddled around me and put oil and their hands on my head to ask God to reduce my then-undiagnosed suffering, He never did. Can you imagine telling a child who is always in pain and doesn’t know why that someone did this to them on purpose, who wants them to go through this every day for their entire life, and that person is a being of perfect love? If anyone else did that to their child, they’d be arrested, and no-one would be arguing for their tautological goodness. Or, maybe, this happened to me out of simple chance, because we’re all glitchy meat machines and this is my glitch. That’s certainly a thought better for my mental health than constantly being told that God will cure me eventually, but I need to die first.

In first communion I asked, "Why is there a devil?" The answer was always, "Well, if there's a god there has to be a devil." Makes no sense. Then I asked, "Who made god?" I was slapped by a nun.

After a lot of mental gymnastics and trying to rationalize God's behavior, I asked myself the question that made me an atheist: Why am I having to explain God's actions? Or in other words: "Why is it our job to make excuses for his behavior?"

One of my favorite questions is "If Jesus could walk on water, could he also swim on the ground?"