Before we start, it’s useful to define a couple terms.
Atheism and theism are positions of belief. Atheism is the lack of belief in a god while theism, as you might expect, holds the opposite meaning. The words
agnostic and
gnostic both stem from the Greek noun for knowledge: gnosis. While many theists who hold their holy books as a source of belief are gnostic theists (in that profess to know with certainty that god exists), most atheists are contrastingly agnostics. They lack certainty and so merely lack the belief in a deity. More on that can be found
here where the author uses the more common term
weak atheist to refer to agnostic atheists.
So how then did my journey begin? How did a devout bible thumping Jehovah’s Witness abandon his faith and become an anti-religious sceptic, rationalist and atheist?...