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I grew up in a couple of different denominations - Assemblies of God, then Lutheran, then Methodist. When I was about 14 or so, I started reading the Bible cover-to-cover, and was disturbed by the contradictions in it, and by the mental convolutions it took to make it all make sense (the concept of the Trinity, salvation by faith and not by works, etc.), not to mention the way people used certain scriptures and ignored others to defend their bigotry du jour. I started exploring other religions and found that they all were just trying to explain how the world works and how to live with each other, and I didn't see any reason why any one of them had to be The Truth - it was pretty obvious to me that they were all man-made anyhow.
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"If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
- Anatole France
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