Hey! Just FWIW. Kid I was tutoring about 10 years ago told me she was sick of religion and Christians and all the bravo sierra connected therewith, and that she'd decided she was an atheist. She was, and is, a super logical, real-world, no-bull kid, and all the emo stuff that seems to be part and parcel of Amurkan Christianity was wearing her down. On top of that, she comes from a culture and family where education is the be all and end all, and a B on a report card (not that she ever got one) is like a stain on the family's good name. This is a girl who aced AP Calc and Physics but struggled in English and History, which is why I was there. Anyway, what I offered to her was A) the unavoidable acceptance of pure materialism implicit in any atheistic cosmology, B) the equally unavoidable determinism that must be accepted in a materialistic cosmos, C) the resulting destruction of any rational basis for any epistemology that isn't wholly arbitrary, and ultimately D) the rejection of logic itself as a basis for, well, anything. You reach a logical point (before you reject it, anyway) where you no longer question human agency, but question the existence of agency itself, or even agents (i.e., us)! You end up with a kind of creepy solipsism; sort of "I think therefore I exist...I think". Lot of stuff to address when you're 15 and exams are coming up. She ended up (it took a while) chucking atheism (it is idiotic) for deism (which is at least rational), and over time has since eased back into the Christian faith, albeit into a different, much less "feeeeeeeeeeeeelings" based denomination. She is also an engineer now, working on fighter planes, and making an old man (me) very proud. If there's any of that story that's helpful you're welcome to it, if not, sorry for the waste of time. Take care mate!