Atheism and immaturity

In 2012, a Georgetown University study was published indicating that only about 30 percent of those who grow up in an atheist household remain atheists as adults.

Vox Day declared:

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...the age at which most people become atheists indicates that it is almost never an intellectual decision, but an emotional one. (This is why most self-identified atheists are angry, bitter, and immature. The anger, bitterness, and immaturity are usually the cause of the atheism, they are not, as many Christians erroneously suppose, the effects.)

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The Christian apologist Mariano Grinbank concurs in his essay The Argument for Atheism from Immaturity and writes:

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It is widely known that some atheists rejected God in their childhood, based on child like reasons, have not matured beyond these childish notions and thus, maintain childish-emotional reactions toward the idea of God.

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In the United States, 70% of individuals raised by atheist parents abandon their atheism (For more information please see: Atheism has a lower retention rate compared to other worldviews).

The popular YouTube Christian Shockofgod received many hostile responses from YouTube atheists when he asked for proof and evidence that atheism is true.

See also

• Causes of atheism
• Ex-atheists
• Atheists who have doubted the validity of atheism
• Resources for leaving atheism and becoming a Christian
• Evidence for Christianity