Ex theists: what did you believe?

[Darkstar]

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

Yes, I really believed there was a god. I believed (because I had been told) that he was a paragon of wisdom and morality.

Did you really think your holy book was divinely inspired?

Definitely. I treated it as though it were a history book. (Un)fortunately, I never actually read much of it other than the parts everyone talks about. Even back then, though, something seemed... strange about the story of Noah's ark. I don't know when that feeling first appeared, because I'm pretty sure I believed in it unquestioningly at some point.

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

Sort of. After a confession, I felt as though a weight had been lifted off of my soul. Several years later, I played FFIV, and when Cecil became a paladin, I had the same feeling, only stronger.

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

I believed that miracles were real, and that prayer actually worked. I didn't even understand the concept of being an atheist. But once I did...