I'll try to be fairly brief as my de-conversion story is fairly hum-drum and probably similar to many others on this forum. I was raised in a Protestant fundamentalist household ( ie, Methodist, Baptist ) and was raised to be receptive to their theology. Like most young people brought up in a religious home I eventually "received Christ as my Savior" at age 15.

All was well ( more or less ) until I entered my early forties and began to examine some of the atheist / skeptic websites. The first to destabilize my faith was the Biblical Errancy web-site that was put up by C. Dennis McKinsey. As inerrancy was one of the bedrocks of my Christian faith this discovery was something of a shock. Also when I read the pathetic responses from Christian apologists ( Tektonics.org ) I could see that they were simply grasping for straws.

At any rate the gradual destruction of my faith was centered around my having reluctantly discovered that my religious mentors had lied to me about Biblical inerrancy. If they were wrong about this foundational belief, what else could they be mistaken about ?

As a side note the many stories of outright butchery that Christians would defend as acceptable ( Hosea 13:16 ) began to strike me as repugnant. These Christians were no different than Muslims ( whom most Christians despise ) in the way that the most brutal behavior imaginable was made totally acceptable simply by rationalizing as "God's will."

At any rate I have abandoned my faith. That faith, which was once a valuable possession, turned out to be nothing but useless, and as such I simply threw it away.

Welcome to the forum!  I have to say thanks in advance for the nightmares I'm going to get from your avatar.  I think clowns are scary enough in their own right but that shit just takes the cake. 

Thank you to everyone who has stopped by and said "hello". I'm happy to be here.

( Yes my avatar is hard to ignore but sooner or later I'll get bored and change it. )

Welcome to the forums.