Ex theists: what did you believe?

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I'm interested in hearing from those of you who have come out of religion. What would you list as your sincere beliefs while you were a theist? For example:

Did you really believe there was a god, and if so, what did you feel you knew about him?

Did you really think your holy book was divinely inspired?

Did you have experiences which you really thought were divine interactions?

What else did you believe then that you don't now?

I hope it goes without saying I'm not intending to make fun of anyone, I'm genuinely interested. Having never been the slightest bit religious, I can't even imagine what it must feel like to have any of these kinds of beliefs. How did they make you feel?

Thank you

I was brought up Southern Baptist and attended church as a child but my family stopped attending when I was a teenager.  For awhile I flirted with agnosticism. If I had a support group, I think that I would have probably become an atheist. For a long time, I read about many religions because I imagined that one must be true. That led me down some interesting paths. 

I became 'saved' in my thirties. Looking back now, I think the salvation was the result of a lot of pressure from my mom and friends. Once I became Christian, I went whole hog. Damn it, if I was going to be  a Christian, I would find the correct church. I went back to Baptists churches but their theology didn't seem to always line up with the bible. Later I would realize that no church can line up with the bible because the book is too  contradictory.  At one point I converted to  Roman Catholicism because that was more lenient than the fundamentalist church that I attended. Faith slipped away from me in my early forties and here I am. 

At one time, I am ashamed to admit, I was a long skirt, homeschooling mom who followed some very fundamentalist views. During that time, I grew physically sick but there was nothing wrong with me. I think now that the pressure of fundamentalism was making me ill. 

Yes, I believed the bible was divinely inspired and I thought god talked to me by giving me feelings about certain things.