Question for those not raised in religious homes

[vulcanlogician]

I didn't think about religion a lot when I was a kid.  I know people in fundamentalist homes do, but for the rest, in the average home, I don't think people give it that much thought.  Maybe that just reflects my experience.  There were the late night talks about God, but not a lot of actually really spending a lot of time alone thinking about it.

Meh, it can be an issue. I was raised in a Catholic home, and my sister was/is deeply religious. She was not a nutcase or anything. Just a devoted Catholic girl who said her Hail Marys and accepted the Catholic doctrine in its entirety. When I was a teenager, she picked up on the fact I didn't believe. There was drama involved--and not due to my expressing my lack of belief in the slightest. At the time, I went to Mass with my family, took communion, and more or less kept my atheism to myself. I was sort of a closet atheist. 

I remember one year she got me The Student Bible as a birthday present. It was a blatant attempt to proselytize. Actually, it was a pretty nice gift. It was heavily annotated and gave tons of background information and context for specific verses/passages. And it really helped seal the deal for me being an atheist. 

For one thing it had something resembling this image in Genesis:

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It also pointed out the contradiction with the number of Noah's animals. I remember reading things like "not having contact with a women during the uncleanliness of her period" and thinking, "this is some backwards ass shit."