[Serious] For former Christians only, why did you leave your faith?

[Angrboda]

Truth.  Jesus' teachings are truth.  They hit me hard - very impactful.  I am a sort of seeker of truth - so in a way eventually I found Him (or perhaps more accurately He found me).

Are you willing to consider the possibility that how hard something hits you doesn't determine its truth? Or that teachings being true don't make everything said about the person who is supposed to have taught them being true?

I'm reminded of Mystic Knight's belief that the degree of confidence one had in something being true was a good indicator that it is true. It's reminiscent of one of the cognitive distortions that I've learned about in my CBT work, being the idea that how one feels reflects how things are. So if I'm anxious about my score on a math test, I might incorrectly conclude that I therefore probably did poorly. It's difficult to break the link between feelings and thinking for most people, but some may have more difficulty with it than others. This is not to say that I, myself, am good at it -- I wouldn't be doing CBT work if I were -- but it is a common cognitive bias that finds easy prey in people with few critical thinking skills.