How did you lose/maintain your faith?

[Dexies]

I thought that the answers to this might be able to make both the believers and the non-believers more open-minded. (Not saying that you aren't)

How and when did you question the existence of god and why did you choose to believe/not believe?

Please don’t comment on others experiences.

If you don’t agree with their decision, keep it to yourself.

I'll start with my own.

I was going to church with my parents every Sunday until I was 16 when I finally told my mum that I didn’t believe in god. I think the reason for this is that, although of my high exposure to religion, the idea of a single controlling entity shaping life and destiny was never explained to me in a way that I could grasp and say, “This is fact”. The idea of god to me just disappeared like the idea of Santa Claus. The rest of family still believe.