catzmeow
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Now for the rest of your reply you spend all those years doing the things you claim you did and all of a sudden you stop? Really dude I can smell the fraud in your post even on the internet. Something must have happen to you that was traumatic. Did you get busted for stealing church funds? caught cheating with the pastors wife? Deacon's wife? No one loses the faith their faith in God and do the things you say you did unless something they did was bad and are trying to run from their wicked way.
This is quite a leap in logic. I know the stories that the sheep tell themselves to provide comfort and reassurance, but for some of us, Christianity just becomes increasingly illogical.
For me, I was tasked with researching alternative religions for my job. Looking at them objectively impacted my view of my own beliefs. I realized that there was little or no evidence supporting my own paradigms (Southern Baptist). I did more research, and found that the foundation was even flimsier than I ever suspected.
This is why so many pastors talk about their years in seminary as the most challenging of their lives. They learn a lot about the faith that isn't much discussed in church. MANY seminary students have a resultant loss of faith. Looking at your faith in a scholarly way poses intellectual problems for many people.
Undermining the Faith – The Problem with Seminary « Porter's Progress