Question

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I am here to ask if there are any of people who were a bible believing, Christ following, Christian who chose to "walk away" from that belief.  If so, how long were you a follower of Jesus and why did you abandon that faith?  What is your belief now?
Thank you so much for your time.
G.

I was raised in the Catholic faith, though it was never so much based on the bible, something we never did as a family, but more of a general acceptance of god's existence and Jesus' salvation. About the only interaction I had with religion was at a younger age where we attended a Catholic church where the service was in Latin, which meant we never understood a word of it, and then later the priest was Spanish I think and the language of the service switched to that. We left that church and tried another church very briefly, but overall we stopped attending church when I was still young. The only connection I had to religion after that was through nightly prayer before bed.

Later in high school, I befriended some churchy teenagers who convinced me to attend their church. I began to read the bible, and I think it was actually reading the book for the first time that truly began to open my eyes to the truth of its absurdity. Having been such a huge fan of reading fiction, I certainly recognized fiction when I encountered it, and the bible was filled with fiction. I tried sticking with Pentacostal Christianity, mainly due to the friendship I had with others my age, but I eventually left when those friends turned against me and showed themselves to be more evil than any non-believer I have since encountered in my life.

I am currently an anti-theist.