Atheists who have converted to theism?

[God of Mr. Hanky]

Of course it hurts knowing that all of the fervently positive assertions made by your trusted elders wiere bull, and I still feel that pain when I think of it. It hurts even more when you realize that they had no better source than those lies for maintaining a positive outlook in life, and then you pity them. But when you are psychologically chained by ideas which you know cannot be true, one thing is for sure that llies which are known can do you no good. It is never positive to knowingly embrace falsehood! Let it go, and be free of those chains. Be free to choose your ideas based on their logic, and their descriptive merit, in order to best enable yourself to deal effectively with reality. The ideas which you are holding onto (that you need a metaphysical source because you seek a reason to care about what's good) is of strictly prescriptive merit, and the prescription is for medicine which is 2000 years past it's shelf life. To get a better prescription, start with a truer description. Stop running those old tapes that there cannot be any good without god, and you'll find plenty of good reasons why this isn't so.

I was distressed because I took my skepticism to the limit. First rule about doubting, know when to stop doubting.

You know that the doubt will always haunt you, and there's a reason for it. Its existence isn't of purpose, the reason is akin to the fact that the genes of animals which move under the presumption of a stalking predator when they hear a rustle in the trees exist today, while the genes of those which stuck around to find out are gone. The doubt won't ever truly go away, and it will cause you stress, and the only way that you can be truly free of it is to confront the unreality for what it is. Your own mind is begging you to allow it to explore reality outside of the constraints of your handed-down beliefs! LET ME GO, it's pleading!