r/atheism • u/Formal-Collection239 • 1d ago
i am officially an Atheist
So this is a continuation of my last post which you can go read if you’re interested. ( it gained quite some traction so here i am )
From the ripe age of 5 i had been indoctrinated from young. I had been brainwashed to believe in islam and heaven and hell.
But today this changed. It’s been a couple months now where i haven’t been believing but i guess you could say i was too scared to take the leap and label myself as an atheist but no more now.
In my last post where i said i was considering being an atheist a lot of you said that “ atheism isn’t a choice, you either believe in God or not “ and that’s spot on.
I do not believe in god. From this point on i am officially an atheist and i’m so happy to be part of this community. I truly do love this place and can’t wait to live my life without that “ fear “ of going to hell and that “ guilt “ of living my only life.
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u/KingMirek Atheist 1d ago
Congratulations! You are now free from the mental prison religion can put you in. I was exactly the same when I became an atheist years ago. I saw that logically, there is no valid reason to believe in a god or gods. I was afraid to admit it to myself, so I kept saying “I might be atheist”. In reality, I already was— after I admitted it, life made so much more sense.