Re: the OP - like others before me, I never lost any faith. I never had any to lose. I've never come across a theistic argument yet that I find plausible, let alone compelling. As far as I can tell, the Universe works perfectly fine without a god at the tiller. So either a god is unnecessary or it operates in a way that makes a god appear unnecessary and hence irrelevant. Thus it can be cut out of the picture with no effect on reality.
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.'
