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I demand a middle option.

My mother was pretty strongly religious, but more in her own observation than in trying to proselytize to others. My father was an atheist, mostly out of psychological self-defense from fighting in Vietnam (his mindset was basically "I've killed people, so that means I'm going to hell, so I'm going to convince myself there's no hell, no afterlife, and no god."

I went to church and Sunday School as a kid (I actually helped teach Sunday School for a year at one point), but there was always that corollary of "Yeah, well, you know, maybe none of this was actually real."

So I essentially grew up with a very positive view of religion in general (and nearly every religious person I know tend to be of the "nice, caring, helpful" type and not the "preachy, judgmental, hypocritical" type), but at the same time never really related to it on any level and wound up eventually becoming agnostic (after going through my obligatory edgy teen atheist phase).
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