Ex-Christians, how long did you stick it out in Christianity before leaving?

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What did you try to keep your faith, if anything?
What I mean is, how long did you stay after you began losing your faith?
 
If you are an ex-Christian you were never really a Christian in the first place. Once you are truly a believer in Christ, you can never 'back out' and I don't believe anyone that is a faithful Christian would ever want to leave their faith and their God.
 
I delt with it for eighteen years.
When I was fourteen, I truly beleived and became a youth pastor intern.
the last year I went back and forth in my beliefs and I tried really hard to believe likeI use to.
Then I realized I was trying to hold on to something I created.

Now I pproud to be atheist but I don't regret my life so far.
I learned a lot.
 
I was religious as a child, and have always been interested in religions, mythology and science.

I realised in mid-teenage that faith was based upon nothing but itself, that science explained nature satisfactorily without needing supernatural beings, and that religious beliefs were no different to those of ancient beliefs in gods and goddesses.

When I first had doubts about my faith I thought that maybe this was a test of it, which was an idea planted in my mind by those teaching us about our faith. So I made the effort to accept it even more so. But the doubts came again, and I wondered what would happen if we took faith out of the equation; the world and nature still made sense, so I saw no reason to get back into it. And my understanding is that there's no theoretical or mathematical need for a god or gods, and there's no valid evidence of it or them; so there's no reason to believe. At the time this was difficult intellectually and emotionally (I was a teenager, after all).

That was over 40 years ago, and my escape from faith has freed me to embrace what science has to offer, which I consider far more plausible than belief in the supernatural, and is the nearest we can get to the truth about how nature and the universe work. I've felt a sense of freedom ever since, and am happy and at peace with this. And I've found the humility to admit that I don't know everything, rather than masking this by invoking a deity.

I still have an interest in religions, mythology, folklore and related matters, and am fascinated that people still believe in things that to me are clearly just not true.
 
I became an atheist in my late teens.

I don't recall exactly when or how it happened. One day, I just realized that, sometime over the year or two prior, I had stopped believing in supernatural things. Further study into the natural explanations for the universe merely confirmed my realization.
 
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