Religion was a daily nightmare my fundie parents sticking a soapy rag in my mouth every time I said gaaawdddt when I was 4&5 years old.....my parents were racists hated my African Black kindergarten teacher who I loved like my Jehovah Witness Aunt Mabel who I also loved and everybody made stupid jokes about her.... bigots drove me to Atheism for honesty science and peace from Onward xian Soldiers 1957

Quite the opposite... I rarely gave a thought to Satan, it was the Hebrew god of war that frightened the crap out of me.

I don't remember nightmares, but there were monsters under my bed. My stuffed animals bravely protected me from them.

I dreamed or thought I saw the boogie man when I spent the night with my grandmother. He was bald and crawling on top of one of those cars with the big round back. I remember being worried but not terrified.

As a child, bad thoughts as to the death of my parents...

No I didn’t. I had nightmares about not that kind.

The Satan/Lucifer/Devil things were the biggest things that I let go of very quickly yet I still believed that a 'god' would cause eternality.

Not Satan, but vague shadows of unseen terrors. I suppose every child has something similar, thereby giving religion the perfect excuse to define these fears as an invention called "Satan".

It is unfortunate that Christians instill an image of a monster in a fiery environment that torcher you forever if you don't follow Christ.

Only after seeing the exorcist.