Doubting Thomas

[Tonus]

My loss of belief was gradual. My "ah ha" moment was probably the moment when I first accepted that I was an atheist. One of the early things that started chipping away at it was questions about how Judas is treated in the NT. Other things were more specific to the Jehovah's Witnesses and what they believe, and some of it was trying to make my beliefs work in the face of any doubts or counter-arguments made by non-believers. To me, the Bible should have been able to clearly and unambiguously convince anyone of its veracity without requiring a person to be in any particular frame of mind; what good is a book from god if you have to accept god before the book makes the proper amount of sense?

I didn't realize it through all of that, but I was stepping outside of the "belief bubble" that I'd been raised in. Many of the arguments I see put forth by theists here are not much different from what I found so unsatisfying as I tried to salvage my religious belief. And some of the arguments are so bizarre that even when I was a believer I would've done a double-take.