If the bible/quran/whatever was better, would you've remained theist?

[Angrboda]

I was a rather poorly read Hindu. I faced a choice of reading more of the stories and legends of Hinduism in order to become better educated. But this left me with a quandary as to which stories and legends to embrace, and which ones not to embrace. The only real criterion I could imagine would be reason. However my beliefs were based on intuition. If I were to embrace reason as the criterion of choice, it would have been at odds with the base of my religious beliefs. So I was faced with adopting a reason based approach to my religious beliefs. This signaled the end of those beliefs. I think if the religious scriptures were better, I would still have faced the same choice of what to base my trust in them upon. Once one gets to that basic choice, the appeal of reason is undeniable, and with it, the failure of faith.