God? Leaving Christianity

I grew up in a religious house. We went to church every Sunday; my mother was director of the CCD program; my brothers and I were even altar boys. This wasn’t all just ceremony. I sincerely believed in God and Jesus, and thought I could feel His presence when I prayed. But as I got older, I began to question my religious beliefs, and eventually realized that I’d been mistaken. There was no moment of epiphany. The gradual realization came after several years of research and intense self-reflection. During the course of that transformation and afterwards, I wrote a lot about my thought process and reasoning. I collected, chopped up, edited, and reassembled many of those writings, and then added a bit more to create this book. This latest edition is a major revision, with a lot of editing, purging, and new material, correcting some of the short-comings in the previous edition, and hopefully creating a better overall book.