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.

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

Hi, Michael, and welcome to the website.

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raised atheist.

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 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?

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.