Dear ex-theists

[Bad Writer]

Oh, me? I'm an ex-Mormon, and the first big one for me was finding out just by reading through it a few times (while I was a missionary, no less) that the Book of Mormon was more or less a bastardized plagiarism of the Bible. You can probably surmise where things went from there.

It was not the blatant silliness of the way in which the religion itself was created?

I was a raised in it, so even to the point of my initial doubts I thought it was perfectly reasonable for God and Jesus to appear to their prophet in order that their True Religion™ become restored. God appeared to Moses and other such prophets; it only made sense to a young, impressionable mind, and it stuck with me throughout the years.

Once those initial doubts took hold, everything else started falling into place, and reason flooded my mind.

As for me, it was when I discovered some of Robert Green Ingersoll's agnostic works on the internet. It was the first time I had ever read anything of that magnitude which actually placed religion in the light of the lie that it is.

The internet is where I garnered most of my information as well. I started with deconstructing Mormonism, and I eventually moved on to Hitchens.

What was your original religion/faith, if any?