How did you become an atheist?

[God of Mr. Hanky]

So, can you tell us about how you became an atheist? Was it a process or an instance when you dropped your god belief? Did someone help you along, or influence you? Or maybe you were always an atheist? Please share your story.

Also, if you could address whether or not you discovered since you became an atheist that you had other irrational beliefs besides the belief in a God, and what you did about those.

Feel free to answer however you like. These are just guidelines. But I'm basically asking about your atheism(and maybe about your skepticism), so to speak.

Well, it began with watching relatives piss and moan over parent's defection from their Catholic church, then learning that Catholic children actually believed all Protestants would burn in hell for not being raised like they were, but most of all it was the teachings of dour evangelicals in my school (now how's that for irony) which were too fucked up even for the dumbest members of my family. I knew there was something wrong, but sadly I never really considered atheism an option for me until decades later while online, when I read the ExChristian site. (don't even know if it's still there or what I would think of it now, it's been around 10 years since my last visit there). I later read some books, watched Dawkin's "Root Of All Evil", watched more videos, watched atheist debates, read Letter To A Christian Nation, watched The Atheist Experience, read more books, and hung out on Patheos Atheist Channel until it became rather monotonous and a bit choked by so many SJWs (although my respect for Hemant Mehta of Friendly Atheist remains very high).

Oh, other irrational ideas, such as those exploited by astrologers, psychics and palm readers only helped me in making the jump to atheism. I watched others interact with these con artists, and the idea behind "cold reading" was more than obvious before I ever saw that term. The eyes were basically making the same patterns of motion as those of any evangelical liar who I had encountered. If there's really any truth to any of these ideas of gods or other supernatural forces, then why must everyone with a claim on interacting with them resort to lying?