If someone would have asked me 5 or 6 years ago if I would ever say the words " I am an atheist", I would have laughed at them. I was raised Christian, Church of Christ to be exact. I was devout in my religion and it was something that I held very dear to me. There were things that didn't make sense, things that had raised my eyebrows, but I always chalked it up to the typical statement, "There a…