I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.
My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that.
I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.
When I was young, I was religious.
I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.
I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.
I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective.
I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that.