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I was wondering earlier today, why after years of being a god-fearing person, many stop believing and move on to, IMO more rational thoughts, such as atheism. For instance, I used to be a christian-actually more of the hypocrite that most 'christians' are, but later had the epiphany that there is no god. A rational way of thinking, I think, but it seems that so many people never stop believing. I want to know why. I'm aware that a majority of MA users are most likely atheists, and I was wondering what it was that changed your minds, that maybe I could find a pattern, which from what I have so-far gathered, is that when a drastic change in one's life occurs, your thuoghts seem to shift to what seems rational at the current time.

For instance, I believe that what it was for me was when I was depressed for a couple of years, I guess what happened was I began to reshape basically all of my thoughts and what I found one day was that I was being so, so irrational back when I believed the things that they said in church. So, in a way the depression was the turning point in my life, I will call it the 'drastic change' that I mentioned earlier. Was your revelation similar, or were you an atheist all along? If you were an atheist all along, what did you think of all the people that believed in god in your early years?

If my writing seems unclear, point out what confuses you (I know I am not always clear with my writing, but I'm working on that