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[quote=Anonymous]I was Catholic up into my 50s. One day, while sick with pneumonia, I began to pray to get well. But in the middle of my prayer, it hit me like a bolt of lightning that there is no God. It was exactly like a conversion story, but in reverse.

For the first couple years, I tried to regain my faith. It would make family life easier, as the rest of my family is Christian. (I don't talk about this with them, but I stopped attending church.) I realize what a security blanket religion is, especially when this world is making no sense and it would be nice to think about an afterlife. Sometimes I feel relief, but I also sometimes feel sad. Maybe a little bit of fear, but that's faded. I finally stopped trying to talk myself back into belief. It's never going to happen. I feel that as strongly as I once felt in my heart that there is a God.

Every atheist I know either was raised that way or became so in college. Did anyone come to a sudden realization later in life, and for no apparent reason?[/quote]

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