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It worked for me. Former Bible Quiz champion turned atheist, checking in.
I mean, it was a complex situation with a lot of variables, but my knowledge of the Bible (which I had been taught was absolute truth) along with my knowledge of my church's dogma (which I had been taught was 100% based on the Bible) couldn't stand up to my experience of the world.
I went to university and the "heathens" were nicer and more accepting than the Christians. None of my gay friends were actively trying to make me gay or to stop me from being a Christian (some of them were Christian themselves). My religion professors had a very different view of Christianity than I had been taught in church. The more my world expanded, the less relevant a literal interpretation of the Bible seemed. And my childhood church was just so narrow and sad by comparison.