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* ''Fanfic/MyBrotherCainMyBrotherAbel'': After discovering that witches are not inherently evil, [[WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse Caleb Wittebane]] begins questioning everything he had ever been taught about the Will of God. Which turns out, is not the safest thing to do when you are living in a zealous witch-hunting town in 1600s New England.
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* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate3'' has this as a key point of some companions' personal storylines. [[spoiler:Shadowheart can have hers in Shar's Gauntlet when confronted with the Nightsong, an immortal daughter of the goddess Selune who is used as a sacrifice to uplift Shar's Dark Justiciars. The Nightsong, however, knows something of Shadowheart's past, knowing full well of her recurring nightmare from her childhood, and can convince her to forsake Shar and pursue a new path to find the truth. Meanwhile, Lae'zel can suffer a crisis of faith in regards to her queen, Vlaakith, if she is convinced to spare the Guardian of the Astral Prism. While she continues to believe in Vlaakith after her death is called for, insisting that she is simply having her loyalty tested, she eventually learns that the Astral Prism also contains Orpheus, the son of the first githyanki queen, whom Vlaakith wants dead to protect her own power. This discovery leads to her openly rebelling against Vlaakith.]]

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* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate3'' ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' has this as a key point of some companions' personal storylines. [[spoiler:Shadowheart can have hers in Shar's Gauntlet when confronted with the Nightsong, an immortal daughter of the goddess Selune who is used as a sacrifice to uplift Shar's Dark Justiciars. The Nightsong, however, knows something of Shadowheart's past, knowing full well of her recurring nightmare from her childhood, and can convince her to forsake Shar and pursue a new path to find the truth. Meanwhile, Lae'zel can suffer a crisis of faith in regards to her queen, Vlaakith, if she is convinced to spare the Guardian of the Astral Prism. While she continues to believe in Vlaakith after her death is called for, insisting that she is simply having her loyalty tested, she eventually learns that the Astral Prism also contains Orpheus, the son of the first githyanki queen, whom Vlaakith wants dead to protect her own power. This discovery leads to her openly rebelling against Vlaakith.]]
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* Music/{{Grimes}}' song "Know the Way" from ''Music/{{Visions}} is about giving up Christianity. In her notes for the album's re-issue, she said that she wrote the song as kind of farewell to her "religious brain."

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* Music/{{Grimes}}' song "Know the Way" from ''Music/{{Visions}} ''Music/{{Visions}}'' is about giving up Christianity. In her notes for the album's re-issue, she said that she wrote the song as kind of farewell to her "religious brain."
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* Music/{{Grimes}}' song "Know the Way" from ''Music/{{Visions}} is about giving up Christianity. In her notes for the album's re-issue, she said that she wrote the song as kind of farewell to her "religious brain."
--> ''She's giving up the cross\\
She'll end her faith in love\\
I don't know the way, I don't know the way\\
I can't believe in your heart''
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* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': This happens to Stan in "Daesong Heavy Industries" two parter. While Stan has alway presented himself as a hard-nosed believer in God up to this point, this episode reveals that Stan has never actually read the Bible. Steve, who is an unbeliever, challenges Stan to prove the Bible's authencity by reading it to him. It doesn't take long for Steve to poke holes in the first few verses of Genesis, with Stan coming short of an explanation to his questions, especially the Noah story. This causes Stan to spiral out of control, and Roger only makes it worse by convincing him to go break all the commandments. When an attempt to revitalize his faith by Steve at the insistence of Francine, Stan becomes obsessed with becoming a new Noah.
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* ''Literature/TheBookOfEve'': Beatrice was complacent in her worship of the Father, neither terribly pious nor doubtful. When she is introduced to the cult of the Mother, however, she is made to question her entire worldview. Here is a deity that embraces uncertainty and transformation, in opposition to the Father's constancy and preservation of the status quo. Here is a deity who protects women and interferes directly in their lives, in opposition to the patriarchal and distant Father. The Mother runs counter to everything Beatrice associates with the proper order of the world but she is irresitably drawn to it.

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* ''Literature/TheBookOfEve'': Beatrice was complacent in her worship of the Father, neither terribly pious nor doubtful. When she is introduced to the cult of the Mother, however, she is made to question her entire worldview. Here is a deity that embraces uncertainty and transformation, in opposition to the Father's constancy and preservation of the status quo. Here is a deity who protects women and interferes directly in their lives, in opposition to the patriarchal and distant Father. The Mother runs counter to everything Beatrice associates with the proper order of the world but she is irresitably irresistibly drawn to it.it, even if a part of her fears she'll be eternally damned for worshiping another deity.
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* ''Literature/TheBookOfEve'': Beatrice was complacent in her worship of the Father, neither terribly pious nor doubtful. When she is introduced to the cult of the Mother, however, she is made to question her entire worldview. Here is a deity that embraces uncertainty and transformation, in opposition to the Father's constancy and preservation of the status quo. Here is a deity who protects women and interferes directly in their lives, in opposition to the patriarchal and distant Father. The Mother runs counter to everything Beatrice associates with the proper order of the world but she is irresitably drawn to it.
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* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate3'' has this as a key point of some companions' personal storylines. [[spoiler:Shadowheart can have hers in Shar's Gauntlet when confronted with the Nightsong, an immortal daughter of the goddess Selune who is used as a sacrifice to uplift Shar's Dark Justiciars. The Nightsong, however, knows something of Shadowheart's past, knowing full well of her recurring nightmare from her childhood, and can convince her to forsake Shar and pursue a new path to find the truth. Meanwhile, Lae'zel can suffer a crisis of faith in regards to her queen, Vlaakith, if she is convinced to spare the Guardian of the Astral Prism. While she continues to believe in Vlaakith after her death is called for, insisting that she is simply having her loyalty tested, she eventually learns that the Astral Prism also contains Orpheus, the son of the first githyanki queen, whom Vlaakith wants dead to protect her own power. This discovery leads to her openly rebelling against Vlaakith.]]
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* ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'': William (a Christian) admits to having doubts about Christianity to Esther (a Jew). His Christian biological father died while on pilgrimage to the Christian Holy Land and he long wondered why and was answered with "the Lord works in mysterious ways". By contrast, [[spoiler:his Pagan adoptive father]] was saved by a Pagan doctor who was brought there by Pagan Dragon Riders (who only met the doctor in the first place because Jews from his land came to Berk).
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* Kristen Applebees's arc in {{WebVideo/Dimension20}}'s ''Fantasy High'' centers around her religious troubles. She begins season 1 as a devout follower of Helio-the god of corn. After dying and meeting her god, she discovers that he's nowhere near as great as she'd been lead to believe he is and begins doubting him. At the end of the season, after she dies for a second time, the universe allows her to create her own god. But, as an indecisive high school freshman who just wants someone to tell her she won't go to hell for being queer, she ends up accidentally creating "an enthusiastic yes" (aka "Yes!", which manifests itself as Buzzfeed-esque positive headlines and block letters), which she immediately regrets. Between seasons, "Yes!" becomes "Yes?", but she still feels unsure in the god she's created. When she hears about the Unknown Goddess, a force that accepts confusion and not knowing all the answers, it immediately intrigues her. [[spoiler: When she dies for a third time and meets Helio and Sol again, she discovers that the power she thought she was gaining from doubt and "Yes?" was just Helio still providing her power. She punches Helio in the face, returns to the land of the living, and begins worshipping the Nightmare King/Unknown Goddess, renaming them "Cassandra" and accepting the ideas of confusion and not knowing the entire truth.]]
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** Another character named Lagerfeld also went through this after one of the main characters, [[BrokenHero Zephyr]], survived his execution in the past despite the terrible things he had done, causing Lagerfeld to question Zenith's judgement and to abandon his position as Cardinal so he could try passing his own lethal judgement against Zephyr.
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