For a time I was also an atheist. I grew up in a very small church in Iowa that taught simple piety. As an intellectually inclined youth I needed more substance. It didn't help that the children of the most outspoken congregants acted rebellious, drinking and having sex, more than the children of the more restrained parents. Throughout high school I couldn't seem to get enough of the existentialists like Sartre, Camus and Nietzsche. I could never really make sense of concepts like the Trinity, the hypostatic union, etc. And I found no one around me to ask. So my 'simple faith' just withered on the vine, so to speak.
How I became a Christian again is a whole 'nuther story.
How I became a Christian again is a whole 'nuther story.
