Former Christians: Can you explain the process of how you came to denounce your Christian beliefs?

I would say it started with disenchantment with the church- I thought its stance on contraception was irresponsible, its stance on gay rights to be archaic and its stance on abortion to be immoral and negligent. At first I disliked the church but still believed in God and the teachings of Jesus. I always saw the bible as more metaphor than fact and I turned to science to answer my questions about the world. I thought that science and faith could work together and that science didn't necessarily discredit anything that was said in the bible but soon I found that trying to reconcile the different explanations was a lot of work and frankly I didn't need the biblical explanations to supplement the scientific ones- the scientific ones were enough. I was also questioning the authenticity of the bible in terms of the inconsistencies and contradictions therein. I decided that it didn't matter to me whether Jesus actually walked the earth or not- I could still live by the teachings he preached whether he was a real person or a character in a book. Then I found that I didn't rely on the bible for morality but rather I created my own sense of morality through experience and talking to other people and reading. After that there wasn't really anything left for me in religion. Intellectually I won't say that I know definitively that there is no god because I can't claim to know more than anyone else but emotionally I don't believe there is a god.