If you truly want to understand "ex-believer" then you need a better analogy.
As I showed you, your example is not the same.
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It would be as if I once went to visit my Uncle Bill in New York City when I was 7.
You are talking of Uncle Bill, a physical being that you can see and your parents could also see at the same time. You could all point to Uncle Bill and describe exactly what he is wearing, color of his hair, color of his eyes, etc.
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In my example, I believed because I experienced.
You can't experience the title of Uncle. The title has nothing to do with wether you can get to know the person or not.
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What if you experienced what I claim to have experienced.
What did you experience exactly?
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In other words, do you refuse to consider belief because it is uncomfortable, impossible, or merely threatening to your own sense of control over what you allow to influence you?
Remember you are trying to understand
"ex-believer", which means they once believed.
I was a believer. There was no discomfort in believing and it wasn't impossible to believe. In my belief I gave God complete control over my life. I understood the Bible as it was presented to me. Then I got involved in a church that was big on Bible study. I read and studied and saw the reality of the Christian Bible.
I don't think you understand who "ex-believers" no longer believe (at least this one anyway). I no longer believe in the tenets of Christianity, which is all I ever knew of God. If God does exist outside of the pages of the Bible, then he will have to make himself known to me on his own.
"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which lasts forever." --Anatole France