Why do people get into atheism? [Spirituality & Religion]

I few years ago I moved town and I started hanging round with Atheists. I guess I was just trying to fit in I guess but pretty soon I decided I didnt like being Atheist and it made me feel silly. Looking back, it was justa phase I was going through. Why do atheists do it?

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CopperCicada · M

In my experience there are two types of atheists and agnostics.

One is of a philosophical confession. And there are three types here. One has investigated the world and life and has decided that there is no God. The second has decided that God simply isn't necessary for life or to explain the world. The third has decided that there is no way to know, so it's a largely irrelevant question.

And then there are those of a social confession. They have looked at the world and have decided that there is so much damage inflicted by religion that one is better off without it.

It's not exactly a fad. People have come to these same types of conclusions as long as the written record of human experience goes back.