Ironically, breaking free from religion is like getting out of Chinese handcuffs...you have to relax in order to free yourself. Well, it's not a totally accurate analogy (none are, really), but I find it helps. The more energy that's put into someone's belief--sourced either from one's self or others--the harder it is to get out.
All the former believers I've spoken with seem to have become free by not trying to do so. They were hit with an 'ah ha' moment while not expecting it, or (like myself) just one day realized that all the silliness wasn't true after years of small things building up to an inescapable conclusion. Those "small things," however, aren't thrown at people; they were discoveries made by one's self or overheard.
It's sad, but the mind of belief is almost always cracked slowly and alone.
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