If you no longer believe in God, what caused you to stop?

The Christians where I live pretty much believe the bible is 100% true and that evolution is a lie.
At12 I realized how inconsistent the bible was and that evolution just made sense.
And a goodly number of the people who got me hating myself and wanting to die were Christian.
They seem pretty hateful for people who are supposed to be following Christ's example.
I looked into gnosticism, but eventually discarded the Christian God and Christian doctrine entirely
The Christians around me have no little part in that. Had I been accepted, I probably would've drifted into a very relaxed Christianity.
As it is, I think of my spirituality as something that's illogical, but I seem to need it somehow. It seems to make me closer to whom I aspire to be.

Well, it's not that I don't believe anymore...it's more like I have begun to see different viewpoints. This ended up with me concluding that everything is a possibility that should be respected and studied so that we may understand ourselves.

That and all of the emotional abuse I suffered at a private Christian school when I was a boy sure didn't help

I never really believed but one day I had a kind of epiphany - if "god" is our father, then he is a really ****** parent - and an absentee one at that. If there's a god then he doesn't deserve us for his children. Would you let your kids do the things we do to each other?

At around 12 I had a creationist scripture teacher. I knew his arguments were angry and stupid (I believed and still do in evolution) and it disillusioned me in Christianity seeing someone as dumb and angry and argumentative as him trying to hammer his teachings into sniggering highschool students. At that stage I became agnostic, I didn't know if there was a God, but I knew I didn't agreethe Bible was His words, I became convinced the Bible was just written by people.

At around age 37 I became sceptical of all my spiritual beliefs, through understanding how easily peoples minds could be tricked. It related to my mother and her narcissism, a mentalist called Derryn Brown influenced me too. I became a full blown atheist and didn't believe in God, I even wore an atheist t-shirt!

However at age 42 I rediscovered my spiritual side from profound personal experiences that fully convinced me, though I wouldn't expect them to convince anyone else, I wouldn't believe them if they were someone elses experiences being told to me. I now believe in God again, as a great vine of purely good feelings connected to everything and within everyone.

I wish you the best, feel welcome to talk to me if you want to ask anything.

By the way, thank you so much for asking this question! What a great topic!

As one who was drawn to the outdoors earlier on in life, I rather excelled in Biology and in Earth sciences. I come to understand the physical evidence there is for evolution, what we know of our universe around us, and then I began to appreciate it all as quite a remarkable thing indeed, but no need really for a god to have created all this. I have come to see our existence as cosmic roll of the dice in an enormously huge universe(s)

people. i'm not positive that i've completely stopped believing, but the people were really what got to me. i was raised in a very small church, and as i got older i realized the people i had looked up to weren't what i thought they were. then i started going to other churches, and although there are some truly great people, there are also some huge fakes. One thing I remember specifically was going to church with my ex, and he was in the choir. I was always really moved by the music, because the choir was so into it... then i went to choir practice one night, and realized the director would tell them, "okay worship here, lift your hands here, pray here... " and I felt like I had been fooled because everything was so rehearsed. I just have a lot of questions that I can't find an answer to.

I grew up in a Christian home, and read the bible a few times. I got sick of people not answering my genuine questions but replying by accusing me of lack of faith (even the bible says you shouldn't blindly follow something you don't understand). Also, I grew up in a really evil household, the bible was used as an excuse for sexism, pretty significant abuse, theft, to control people, homo-negativity, and various forms of discrimination, and was repeatedly taken out of context to justify diff individuals own personal agendas. There are great Christians, but I can't stand being near organized religion anymore, and if God is an angry God allowing evil to go on in his name seems like the kind of thing he ought to be upset about.

Sorry, I'm really wordy.