The opening paragraph about becoming a skeptic after researching the bible seems to be a bad analogy.  One could list contradicting examples of skeptics who became believers by looking further into the subject (C.S. Lewis, perhaps Lew Wallace who later wrote Ben-Hur, and Lee Strobel in our own day).<p>&quot;The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.&quot; - G.K. Chesterton