Although my deconversion to atheism was intellectual, not emotional, I suppose it is true that I suffered some “deep disappointments.” I was initially saddened, for example, to learn that the bible is not as reliable as I had been taught to believe it was. So, yes, it hurt to know that I had been deceived, deliberately or innocently, by people whom I had trusted. But my problem was not with those people: it was with the truth of the claims of Christianity.
