What Led You Initially to Deconvert, Some Surprizes

This multiple choice poll is closed and here are the results below. There were a couple of surprises.

1) The Problem of Suffering 306 (32%)

2) Science Based Reasoning 585 (61%)

3) The Problem of Religious Diversity 309 (32%)

4) The Far-Fetched Nature of Miracles 297 (31%)

5) The Barbaric God of the Bible 338 (35%)

6) The Misogynist Nature of the Bible 217 (22%)

7) Racism and Slavery in the Bible 207 (21%)

8) Philosophical Problems With God Concepts 400 (41%)

9) Doubts About the Existence of Jesus 161 (16%)

10) Biblical Archaeology 187 (19%)

11) The General Unreliability of the Bible 407 (42%)

12) Jesus Did Not Come Back as Promised 105 (11%)

13) Sinners go to Hell 243 (25%)

14) Pedophile Priests & Huckster Preachers 138 (14%)

15) Never Believed in the First Place 152 (15%)

15) Other 152 (15%)

953 people voted. I wasn't surprised at the result of # 2, but I was surprised by the results of #'s 8 and 9. I didn't expect them to be that high. Any surprises with you?