I was raised as a Unitarian Universalist to UU humanist parents. I got flak in middle school for being class feminist-atheist, but my true friends didn’t care I learned about the Bible from attending weekly after school Bible study with friends—there were snacks and prizes! As a UU, I also learned about myriad faith traditions and sources of wisdom from Sunday services.
I have read several books about the Koran and the Bible, including a fascinating one about errors made by Biblical translators and calligraphers, both intentional and not.
I am still a UU, I work for the national headquarters, and I am an itinerant lay speaker for Sunday services. You could say I’m all wrapped up in religion, but I remain a feminist atheist humanist.

Same as you really. An interesting part of my schooling and hymns in assembly. No fear of God smiting me and throwing me into the eternal furnace.

Dabbled around with occult stuff in teens, then entered the world of work where no room for religious practices. Always been interested in physics and psychology which lead to study of religion, not just Christianity!

Messed around in the New Age playground in 90’s and got a BA (Hons) in Religious Studies. Never been effected by any of religion’s orthodoxy. To isolate religious thinking is an injustice to the human mind.

Religion is an aspect of being. Nothing to be afraid of, it’s the extreme people that are the unnerving as in any organised ideology, whether it be politics or sporting fraternities.

The people who were never really believers often tell stories about realizing what a bunch of bunk it was when they were very young. In our society, there's always something to tell about how you've dealt with religion.

Your experience sounds very similar to mine. We never went to church except for weddings. My aunt took me to church for a few months when I was in early elementary school but I just didn't connect it with anything more than stories. It wasn't real. I remember at one point them saying something like"someone is always watching you." It may have been watching over you, I don't know, but my little science kid brain was like, oh, right, because there are so many people in the world you can't possibly get away from everyone. I also remember one night I stole a cookie from the kitchen, then dutifully prayed to Jesus to ask for forgiveness and thinking "this is dumb." I think my mom got tired of arguing with me because I didn't want to get up early and wear a dress on Sundays. After that I never went except the time I got tricked into it. My friend asked if I wanted to eat pizza and watch a movie and I was like sure! She goes cool, it's at my church. And inwardly I was like damnit!

The natives look the way to me is like I'm from another planet because of i didn't obey or follow the rules (religious)
So in a way the shape of atheistic is a hard job to the people from the country like india ,

Every day to us is like a protest but we're love to do that
They are religious people and serious people so I have to tickle on them, its a critical job you know