What made you guys atheists/nonbelievers? (Just curious to know.)
I like this question
I grew up in a family where we didn't talk about spiritual beliefs. We went to church (Lutheran) on Christmas day, that's it.
I didn't really think about 'god' or where I'd come from, etc, until I was a teenager, and then the religious teachings I was exposed to made no sense to me.
Good and evil, to me, are not from another world or other sources. Humans are animals, and animals do good things for bad ('evil') reasons, bad things for good reasons, good things for good reasons, and bad things for bad reasons. Sometimes the outcome is tragic, but it is never not from this world (pardon the double negative).
I think morals are great because, really, they just help you live a good life. If I am good to others, they are good to me (it is just cause and effect).
I am much more of a nature girl than to believe that the universe was created by god. Stuff happens and that causes other stuff to happen, and so on. I don't know what the first thing to happen was - my feeling is that there was no first; there was always a cause. Umm, I can't explain it, and I feel I don't need to. I don't think it was the decision of something all powerful, though.
The primary principle of life/nature seems to me to be perpetuation. I don't know why it is like that, only that it balances another feature of life, which seems to be that stuff dies.
Hope that makes sense. I don't think about this stuff, or discuss it very often.
I haven't done a lot of philosophical reading (maybe that's obvious), but I expect it could help someone who is unsure about this stuff. I don't feel unsure.
More and more as I get older, I don't have time to worry about these things. I'm too busy trying to do what I want to do with my life. It's short, but can be completely fulfilling, I believe.
/rambling post