Put it in context: There are people that have been taught all kinds of things all their lives, things that you would immediately dismiss, things on the opposite ends of the religious and political systems that you're attached to.
What we all have trouble with is realizing that there are ideas we've held dear, that perhaps have been part of our identities, that haven't been subjected to honest examination because we've always just accepted them based on their ubiquity among our peer groups, in our families and in our cultures.
Everyone has to one day look at the world around them and decide whether or not to be unafraid to independently consider these things, to come to terms with their own conformist natures, to forgive themselves for their own gullibility and acknowledge that their ignorance wasn't and isn't unique but is common ground across all peoples, times, and cultures including those who authored our sacred texts, and to decide for themselves if they are willing to honestly investigate their own beliefs and thinking habits, biases, heuristics, fallacies and metacognition.
The pressure to believe or not believe in a God has originated from outside of you. The definition, characteristics, views and demands of this God have been told to you, and the only evidence provided has been "it is known".
What would a God you could believe in look like? Would it be a God who asks you not to think? Or would it be a God that expects you to do the best you can with the tools God has given you? Would it be a God that wants you to use the brain you were given to the best of your ability, or a God who asks you not to think about that, not to the use your God-given abilities, to bury your talents?
Even atheists don't deny the possibility of the unknown, don't deny that they don't know what could be out there in the wide universe. They deny that "it is known". Believe in a benevolent God all you want, but maybe reconsider imposing your own beliefs on others, or believing in a God who demands you shut off your mind and claim to know things you don't know or aren't allowed to examine.