I did consider myself an atheist for quite some time after leaving the WTS. It was the only logical conclusion based on emperical evidence alone, as many of the above posters have cited. That said, I have come to realize that their is some value in the concept of faith. Without getting into too much detail, a level of faith maintains sanity. There is a HUGE difference between fundamentalist beliefs, (= belief that theBible or any other holy book is technically accurate), and spirituality. When one learns to think in these terms it is far easier to "bridge the gap" when faced with religious inconsistencies. It is VERY difficult for an ex-jw to think like this. The concept of spirituality has always been tied to having "all of the answers", to a jw. One has to learn to get beyond that way of thinking if they want to consider alternatives to atheism.
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