Then I have no idea what he ' s talking about <| sep |> Hmm I wanna avoid c 2 ' s as much as possible . If you could replace the c 2 for a c 1 c 3 or a nice painted topper we have a deal <| sep |> I don ' t have a ton of time to play P So doubtful <| sep |> I did completely . At first it was because I was born into a very religious family . I respected my grandfather , who was a minister of that faith . I went to parochial schools elementary and high school and planned to become a pastor or teacher . In HS , I realized I have crippling social phobiastage fright , which nixed that possibility . I had learned a lot , and trusted what I learned about it for years . Things like our particular doctrine of belief came from translating the oldest possible Hebrew and Greek manuscripts . That in our translation of Genesis . the evening and the morning were the first day . the word day meant 24 hours . I loved science , but always held the facts of science in a separate place in my mind from faith , but when they had to meet , I always sided with faith . Then , I started learning . I did my own research . Spoke to experts , read a lot of books . Turns out what I was told wasn ' t always true . Our translation wasn ' t necessarily the best translation just the best way to support our faith . I learned that faith ' s ways of dismissing evolutionary science ignore specific facts about how carbon and other radiationbased dating work . And other facts , like how some whales have vestigial hind legs . I remembered how all the nice people at church as a child were actually quite horrible . I remembered how despite all the lipservice given to love and God loving us , and how we all want to do good for each other , that most of the believers didn ' t care about each other only themselves . How even my parents would have deepseated hatred of certain types of people , and didn ' t care about the environment known as being a good steward of god ' s gifts when confronted , because The world will be ending , soon , anyway . When I realized that nearly everyone who believed as I did was pretty reprehensible , I decided I didn ' t want to be part of it . So , I kept searching for evidence , one way or another , and kept finding more and more evidence against . And , eventually , despite faith in god being something which you believe despite evidence , I had to stop . The ironic thing is , that one of the other things I was taught to believe was this That what WE believed was the right and proper doctrine , and we can ' t know if god will save anyone else . The whatever you want to believe is ok attitude would not fly with us . So , once I stopped believing in my doctrine , I really didn ' t have any need to believe in any of it . One of the tenets of my doctrine made it impossible for me to continue believing , at all . TLDR Raised a true believer . Stopped because of knowledge . Edit And , yes , I ' ve heard all the arguments . Believe as children do , because Jesus said to do so . or , You can ' t believe what the intellectuals want you to they have ways of twisting your words and thoughts . etc . , etc . You know what ? Blind faith is fine willful ignorance is not . And the intelligentsia do not have a monopoly on twisting words and thoughts . Religions have been doing it for millennia .