No, he didn't say in 8th grade he had doubt and asked questions, solved is cognitive dissonance or resolved his "crisis of faith". He just continued his own private journey into not getting answers from what the article says and "The whole time hoping at some point it would click, and become true for me." So it's just reading that it was never true for him. Just because calling a spade, a spade, is common, it doesn't detract from the correctness of the spade being a spade.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari