Have you ever had bad or weird thoughts and then just concentrated on making them go away?
It's kinda the same with theists, they go though a great deal of effort to make these thoughts go away because they fear it may break their views on what is normal and what is not (at least that was it in my case)
It's kinda the same with theists, they go though a great deal of effort to make these thoughts go away because they fear it may break their views on what is normal and what is not (at least that was it in my case)