Reading holy books isn't the problem. In fact many an atheist got to be that way after they read them. The trouble starts when you start thinking it's all true.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'