The Bible by Picture

I didn't say it was a guarantee I said it was the fastest, surest way. And, actually, there are quite a lot of pastors who are atheists. See: The clergy project. They go on acting like they believe because it's their job, mostly.

I've heard it said many times by people who have firsthand experience with this that it's basically impossible to get through seminary and still believe. Because they actually study how the Bible came about. Many pastors at Protestant churches never go through the same level of training or study. Stalin went through seminary. Matt Dillahunty was studying to be a preacher when he was younger. Bart Ehrman is one of the most respected Biblical scholars alive today and used to believe, as well. Most atheists I meet in fact became atheists because they learned about their religion.

Also, while I have met people who, after studying the Bible or Quran carefully decided that their faith was stronger, they are, in my own experience, the minority. Most of the people I know who went from being less religious to more religious, or believers in one god and then converted to worshipping another, have spent very little time studying the texts they are supposed to venerate. It seems to be more the norm that they believe in what they are told at church, at mosque, by friends, et cetera.

But this is all anecdotal evidence which I recognize the weakness of.

Samson, meanwhile, was confronted by a lion and "[t]he spirit of the Lord rushed on him, and he tore the lion apart barehanded." (Judges 14:6) Besides, the painting in the clue is called "Samson Slaying the Lion," by Peter Paul Rubens.