How has atheism changed you?

[Whateverist]

Leaving religion behind has made me more self reliant in many ways. I was only religious until about 8 or 10 years of age, and most of what I knew of Christianity was what my parents would say. Nonetheless having been religious also changed me, perhaps for the better in some ways. It is never possible to compare one's actual experience with a hypothetical of course. So lets just say I have no regrets for having had the notion of Christianity in my consciousness .. up until I evicted it.