What made you an atheist?

[Time Traveler]

I was indoctrinated into Atheism from a very early age. My parents dragged me to youth programming on various days of the week (where we were taught that no day was particularly any more sacred than another). The Grand Leader would then stand behind his lectern and read from the Old Atheist Handbook, reading passages from John Stuart Mill, Ayn Rand, Bertrand Russell and the like. Then we would all hold hands and sing hymnals like, “There’s things I don’t know, and that’s okay!” and “Evolution, Evolution” and my favorite, “Imaginary beings aren’t real (No Baby, No).” Afterwards, the Grand Leader would read from the New Atheist Handbook, quoting Hitchens, Dennett, Harris and Lord Dawkins. We would then eat crackers and drink grape juice (because we were a very poor congregation, not because these things held any symbolic value), and then be set free into the world where it was our duty to go door-to-door handing out reason-pamphlets and spreading critical thinking.

Some say I was brainwashed, but I don’t think so.