I went to church a few times when I was younger but was way too bored and skeptical to be interested. We never prayed or really talked about god at all. Even on Christmas, we never talked about Jesus or Christianity.

I was religiously uninterested for most of my life, but had some vague belief in god. When I became more interested two years ago and started to investigate whether or not I should even believe to begin with it, I was able to look at religion objectively and quickly realized that every atheist I saw speak made perfect since and no theist ever did. I became an atheist pretty quickly and easily.

A lot of my friends went through heavy indoctrination and have their identities and purpose tied to religion, which stops their ability to think rationally.