Cherlylynne,
After encountering many atheists myself, it has become clear that there exist precious few reasons why they became atheists.
THE major reason for becoming Godless or agnostic is poor religious and history education.
Many atheists were taught some wacko version of Christianity as children and then went into a perpetual state of rebellion once they reached the age of reason (puberty).
Another factor is that the history of Western Civilization is not taught properly to undergrads and public school students.
Even back in the early 1970’s I was taught the history of Western Civilization minus the profound influence of the Catholic Church from the 5th century through to the Renaissance.
That’s like gutting a fish and expecting it to swim.
After studying Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in grad school I learned how to reason my way to faith.
The Christian faith is in fact quite reasonable.

Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle is given credit for first developing systematic thinking.
He was a student of Plato who was a student of Socrates.
As we know, the ancient Greeks were pagan.
Yet, through reason, they developed various proofs that God exists.
Further, modern scientific discoveries and methods have all but proven God’s existence too.
And atheists like Dawkins and Hawking are long past panic and into straight up denial.

I’m not sure the existence of God can be “proven” by reason although believing in God is a whole lot more reasonable than atheism. I think that faith, by it’s very nature, would not be faith if it can be 100% proven by reason and completely invulnerable to doubt. I have struggled with doubt many times over the course of my life but cannot forsake my faith because I have experienced too much to know that it is anything but true. I also guess there are probably as many reasons for a person becoming an atheist as there are atheists.
Blessings

Thanks so much for your kind reply and for representing the respectful portion of atheism. I apologize if I have in anyway been part of the Christian crowd that responds to unbelievers with any vitriol. I am glad your are looking for the truth and pray you will find it.
You can stand on your head and walk on your hands? Awesome. I can barely manage to walk upright on my own two feet sometimes without falling over. 🙂
Blessings