Hi, to counteract all the memes here, I want to start a discussion. Maybe answer the question I asked and tell why you “lost faith”.
Lets start with myself. I went to a catholic church as a child, my mothers parents are devout christians, my father is atheist as long as I know. After the elder in the community bullied a very nice priest away when i was around 10, I stopped going to church. I never joined the church as full member as you have to do a confirmation as a late teen and left the church when I was around 20. And now even my mother left the church, so she does not have to pay taxes to them. My Grandparents don’t know this, I think my Grandpa would die of an hearth attack, if he ever found out.
So I would say I never had “faith”, it was just routine that you went to church.
Technically the only way to become an atheist is to lose faith, since atheism is the default.
Parents raised me as a Christian. The worst part was having nightmares about being in hell from a young age, maybe six-seven. I deconverted when I was twenty, and it took five years after that for the nightmares about hell to end.
Telling children about hell should be regarded as child abuse by law. That shit fucked me up.