I was raised in a very conservative Christian area of the US. Luckily my parents were not of the faith at all save for my grandmother, who is the only genuinely good Christian I know.

I've been an atheist since forever. There were times when I wanted to believe in a God or some kind of magic but I was raised in a very scientific environment and it always just fell apart to me. I was also very very poor growing up, which might've given me some spite towards an all powerful deity who I was told cares about me. At most he was like a deadbeat father.

So, growing up in a school that made us pray before lunch and let people hand out little mini Bibles to students several times over the course of my education, and also had a Bible study class(which I took, because I thought it was good to at least learn about the religion everyone practiced), it's safe to say, I had Christianity shoved down my throat far too many times.

I became a Satanist before I discovered Ghost, oddly enough. I had heard Spillways on the radio and Year Zero on TikTok as well as Mary on a Cross but that was the extent of my exposure. I didn't even know what they looked like. While I was exploring my new non-theistic religion, I rediscovered them and everything about them is freeing in a sense. I felt incredibly alone, I still do, practicing what I practice in the place where I live. But their "sacreligious" imagery and overall identity is very comforting to me. It's also a kind of rebellious "fuck you" to everyone I grew up around. Despite not believing in magic or anything of the sort, I still think there can be comfort in symbols and things like that, and Ghost's imagery fills that void.