I've been very philosophically open during my life. I wasn't raised as anything. My parents didn't raise me as a christian or an atheist - they just didn't tell me anything about the matter. I always considered myself an atheist in my childhood, and felt alienated a lot by authority in school. About half way through attending a Church of England school, I took to spiritual satanist - almost as a form of personal protest. Upon high school, I switched back to atheism and after having many in-depth conversations with my philosophy tutor, I almost became a Christian (I had also read parts of the Bible). Since, I have read and watched the words of Hitchens, Dawkins, Dennet etc. and I couldn't agree with them more. My hatred for religious authority burns deeply.