I understand that statement, I just don't understand why people want to abandon the faith. Do they just decide they want something else that within the faith they can not have? Or was it because maybe they saw too many people set a bad examples of what being a Christian is?
Could it be that God never left you.... even though you feel you left him?
Even though this was incredibly insulting, I'm going to
assume, that the points you brought up were simply a result of the BS you've been fed, and that you meant that as a sincere question.
I was raised in what could best be described as a non religious household. My mother was raised in a very fundamentalist Christian environment, but had largely abandonned her belief system by the time she married my father.
I was, however, sent to a Catholic school, as it was the nearest french school to us (by about 45 minutes), and the education in the separate system tended to be of a higher caliber. While I was not baptised, and my parents did not attend a Catholic church, my father bribed the Bishop to let us enroll (I only found this out many years later).
While I had been exposed to certain aspects of the Christian mythology previous to that, it was lumped in with Santa, the Easter Bunny, and Nancy Drew. So it was a bit interesting to learn about it when I started school.
To make an incredibly long story short, I learned within a year or two that while there were some aspects I didn't fully comprehend, questions weren't welcome. How could someone profess to have all the answers, yet couldn't answer the questions of a child?
Sometime in highschool, I quit doing the agnostic flipflopping I was doing, and 'converted' to nontheist.
Why? There's
no evidence to support anything other position, in my opinion.
And you know what? It's awesome.
Nice to meet you......