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I never had any contact with any religion until I was…dunno…20 years old.
At some point I decided to give religion (well, christianity) a chance and went to church for a year or so. That included sunday mess, going to a bible study group three times a week, conferences, knocking on people´s doors, playing in the church band and whatnot.
I left church because, deep down inside of me, I knew all that was just not true and I didn´t want to pretend to be something that I´m not and I got the impression that most of my “brothers and sisters” felt the same way, but valued their (perceived?) happiness more than facts or intellectual honesty. I think, “on a human level”, all this is more complicated than some people think. It goes beyond “this has evidence vs. this is made up”.