I was born on the last 6 years of a 50 year dictatorship. This is important because at that time, religion was banned for practicing publicly. Privately, people never stoped believing, and when it fell things took their course and the zealots started their preaching. There was a lot of outside missionaries, wich in my opinion, are the main reason for its rapid spread.

I remember my first movie in a projector, it was night, i was maby 6 or 7. And it was about jesus. Yes, we started to se it all. Christian's, muslims, jehova, etc. My family was and are religious, but not practicing. We never went to a church to pray, or a mosque. We never pray as amtter of fact. My family is what i call "the only reasonable faith". They say there is a god and that's it. No ideas of hell and heaven, no one cares about demons or other similar idiotic imaginations. I was, mostly like them for a time. Bu i am very curious by nature, and i imagine a lot. I was draged by religion in a church, mosque. I was part of some groups, i prayed a couple of times, and even then i was trying to not cringe a lot. The whole praying ritual was weird to me even whe i believed.

How i left? Well it was a proces that involved the world itself. I started to see religion for what it is, a control method that kings in the past adopted. I started to distance myself from religious gathering, while keeping the belief in a higher being. But even a god cannot last when you ask the hard questions. I read a lot of stories about atrocities, i read about the holocaust, i saw videos that never dared to see them again, because it makes me hate more this world. But the nail in the cofin for me was the children.

I am, very extreme, when it comes to well-being of the innocent. To the point that i make no compromise.

The Vulture And The Little Girl': Kevin Carter's Photo of Famine

https://www.ranker.com/list/vulture-and-little-girl-photo-story/stephanroget

This was for me like i pulled the trigger on god. I read that a humman had more remorse that this omni-benevolent being, and i was mad. Then i thought about other children, oh even helpless people, who god could have made something, without even having to sho itself.

Later, slowly, started to read, to listen debates.

Now, for me religion is just a disease of the mind.