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Started out Baptist, formal Sunday school and church (grandparents were devout Baptists). Grandparents then died and influence of Methodist neighbors and my best friend took over, started going to a neighboring Methodist church and Sunday school.
During that time I became a hippy Jesus freak, gave away most of my belongings, became an ascetic, ate only fruit and whole grains, did not use electricity if I could help it, spent most of my time outside even in the dead of winter (I was about 15).
After a year or two decided that the religious metaphysics that I was exposed to was ridiculous and explainable as unconscious wish-fulfillment or pure indoctrination.
Became an atheist by the time I started college, became convinced of the value of rational empiricism.
Not much change since then.
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