Raised atheist. My father told me that god was like the tooth fairy for grown ups.

raised without religion by 2 white witches

Raised a cultural Jew by a mum who was booted out of her Orthodox family for marrying her goy boy. No love lost on her part, hence secular little me! My sons are the same - raised with a lean towards Jewish cultural identity, but none of the other rubbish.

I was raised I. Religion. I'm embarrassed I use to believe in that shit oh well.

I was raised "deep" southern Baptist. Hellfire and brimstone where there pastor does nothing but scream and spit at the audience for an hour. You can't make out what comes out of their mouths for the most part, but the louder they are the more enthralled the audience seemed to get. It just never clicked with me. The rest of my family is still baptist, but have at least moved away from that and gone to a much calmer, not so "deep woods", church. I tried hard to believe when I was young, it just never happened. I always thought there was something wrong with me because everyone else seemed to believe so fully.

i was neither raised an atheist nor left a religion. i was raised as a secular jew and realized at age 15 there were no gods. i didn't even think about not being a jew anymore; i'm still a jew. it's not actually a dealbreaker lol.

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I was raised a Christian with a fundamentalist tilt (anti-evolution, anti-homsexual, no ordination of women, etc.) but finally de-conveted in my 50's. The baggage was very weighty, but once it was thrown overboard, I was finally liberated. As a result of being brought up in such a faith, and memorizing large portions of the Bible, I now see the Bible for the sham that it is, and am likely biased in my views. Namely, that the Bible is a worthless piece of trash, and religion has, on the whole, been a net negative.

Raised primarily Catholic. But before that my Mom kind of tried out several denominations before settling on Catholic. So I kinda had a sense that a lot of it was.... optional?

My parents discovered god when I was about 13. Prior to that we were not particularly religious. The next thing you know I'm studying to be a Pentecostal minister. My parents must have "called me to the ministry." Lots of study, guilt, grief, and many years later I discovered that gods are imaginary.

raised atheist.

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Got depressed and Left religion. It comes with superstitions which were absurd.

Neither.

Born and christened in the church of England, but my dad said I needed to make up my own mind.

Despite my school's best efforts to convert me, I remained an atheist.

Parents non practicing xians. I was the regular church goer in childhood. When I was eight My doubt grew as questions went unanswered.. by time I was 13, I was a non believer. Didn’t even know what an agnostic was. Became an atheist in my early 20’s. Raising my children that way.

I'm a recovering Catholic...did the private school thing through 10th grade.

Raised Christian, but it never took. I kept waiting for proof that never came.

Left

I left religion nearly 7 months ago. I was raised baptist by parents and considered becoming catholic until I decided become enlightened. And joined this community friendly and honest free thinkers. I mentioned this in several other posts that I wish I left the dark years ago or raised as a non believer. Religion is why I a number of issues.

I left the catholic church on my 18th birthday when I could make that choice for myself. I had checked out long before that, but my dad could still force or coerce me to go to church.

Was raised Catholic, but didn't have it rammed down my throat-more like "that is the way it is". Being a good Polack, and all that.......

I don't think you get 'raised' atheist because it's ' a' = without; theist = god -

So nothing to talk about religiously I just went out to play on the bombsites with the other kids in the street (born 1948) U.K not a very religious place.

My childhood was very weird and complicated. I was mostly raised in a private boarding school run by a corporate philanthropy. My religious background was a non-denominational Christian, based upon fundamentalism.

I'm an Atheist now.

I was raised non religious, explored it in teens and 20’s, determination it wasn’t for me.

Sadly i was raised christian since the age of 6, and the church goers were gossiping Hippocrates with comfortable jobs. the only thing i liked about church was the trip to a vary big park? or the church dinner party's?. I've been atheist 2015.

Not raised particularly religious, but was exposed to religion in my early years. So, I can't really say I actually left a church as much as I just did not like the hypocrisy, and contradictions I saw and heard in the few services I attended.