Dear ex-theists

[CapnAwesome]

For those of you who used to believe in a deity or subscribe to some kind of religion, what was it, and what was the very first thing that gave you pause? I'm not asking for you to tell your entire deconversion process, as there is a perfectly awesome corner of the forums for that. Just tell us what that first spark of inspiration was that led you away from faith.

Oh, me? I'm an ex-Mormon, and the first big one for me was finding out just by reading through it a few times (while I was a missionary, no less) that the Book of Mormon was more or less a bastardized plagiarism of the Bible. You can probably surmise where things went from there.

I don't think I had a spark or some such. Even when I was young I remember being very skeptical of the claims of my church. As I got older everything started to chip away until I was more or less a deist, then an agnostic and then I finally just said fuck it, I guess I'm an Atheist.