I was a Christian in high school, not devout but I took it somewhat seriously. After getting completely turned off by what was happening in the Catholic church at the time, I decided to really give atheism a try and to at least hear out their arguments.

I was really shocked at how dumb their arguments/apologetics were. After really trying to understand it, it really boils down to "religions are bad, therefore god doesn't exist". This led me to wonder what was happening in society in general, because I thought that these were the smartest people in the world defending the smartest worldview there is. Yet here these people are, making these non sequitur arguments, and not even getting called out for it. This is when I started to see through leftism, secularism, and most of all, academia in general. In general these academic atheist types have no respect for philosophy whatsoever. It's all just a show. That was over 10 years ago and every year I just get more confirmation on how much of a racket modern academia is. It's sad seeing other kids go through college and not seeing through this BS.