Religions have done this to you in fear of what you represent. They fear they cannot answer your questions. They fear they cannot withstand your logic. Religions have little faith in themselves. Part of the reason for this is because there is a little atheism in all men, regardless of how fervently they deny this.
Religions run in the form of a religious conviction continuum.
Different individuals are on different points of this continuum. Men have been lead to deny the truth about their own atheistic doubts because they have been lead to believe that to admit it would commit them to eternal hell. How ludicrous for individuals to accept the idea that what they are mentally and what they feel mentally would lead them to be punished by eternal damnation. Granted, how one expresses this doubt can have everlasting consequences. Accepting a religious conviction, declaring that same religious conviction, and then becoming a leader within that very same religious group, places a responsibility upon oneself that will stretch into infinity.