Yxl1, I really enjoyed your post and the thread that followed it.
I think it was a combination of conversations on this forum, my children asking me questions about life and death and recent press announcements regarding Christianity and homosexuality.
See, the WT Society was right.... Hang around apostates long enough, and you get corrupted! LOL
The Bible is merely one of many vigorous attempts to try to understand the mysteries of life and to try to promote a particular way of thinking about it. But now that you've gone beyond face value, you can see that it isn't "perfect and inspired".
While it seems logical to some that God exists (and I think he probably does), I'm in full agreement with Gumby that he holds himself aloof from us. It doesn't really seem he's interested in "sanctifying his name" here on earth or "vindicating his sovereignty" or any other such thing that was pounded into our heads as JW's. If he was, why has he waited so long to act? How much more suffering by innocents has to happen before he says "enough already" if he were going to do so?
Christianity fails to answer such questions, and provides a deity that will kill you if you don't abjectly submit to his whims.