Did you ever believe?

[Chido-Wan Kenobi]

That's really hard to answer. I was raised Catholic, but I think my mother was actually a closet Atheist, so we never attended mass or prayed at home. Perhaps we were Catholic because it was the accepted social norm. Now I also realize that you can't possibly know if a 6 year old kid truly "believes", because at that age, you have been trained (like a puppy) to just give the "correct" answers.

I attended Catholic school and was a very good student - to the point that the priests tried to recruit me (imagine that!) But three things happened by the time I reached the 10th grade:
1. I began to notice some of the obvious fascist inclinations of my teachers.
2. Another stupid closet pedophile teacher made a clumsy pass at some of my friends and me.
3. My hormones kicked in, at just the time when miniskirts were becoming very popular

The end result of all this mayhem was that I talked to my family into sending me to public school, were I was promptly "seduced by the Devil"... and I've never looked back.