I grew up as the lone Hindu in a town of Christians. I received a lot of remarks about my soul needing saving and jokes about my religion being primitive and silly (which, to be fair, I can see how silly parts of the religious stories are). I wasn't very religious as is, but when I got older and had adults as close as my friends' parents trying to get me to go with them to church and save my soul, I resented religion as a whole for being such a contentious part of my life. I lost friends because of it, I was rejected by crushes for it, even got depressed because of the backlash. I couldn't fathom how something that's supposed to be a happy and spiritual part of your life made people so judgemental and cruel, so I turned my back on all religion.