Well, you’ve been able to understand the reasons much more clearly than you first did, but they’re still essentially the same reasons. It’s not as high a barrier as understanding quantum mechanics, for instance; once you just stop sabotaging your mental processes, atheism is the obvious conclusion.
Not to say there’s anything easy about the first part of that, of course! I’m just saying it sounds like you’d advanced far enough there at the time you left religion.
Well, you’ve been able to understand the reasons much more clearly than you first did, but they’re still essentially the same reasons. It’s not as high a barrier as understanding quantum mechanics, for instance; once you just stop sabotaging your mental processes, atheism is the obvious conclusion.
Not to say there’s anything easy about the first part of that, of course! I’m just saying it sounds like you’d advanced far enough there at the time you left religion.