- Raised Catholic - was pretty religious when young.
- In adolescence, started questioning things that didn’t make sense to me (e.g., why would God not want people to use birth control if they couldn’t afford kids? Why would he make people have a strong urge for sex but not want them to have it except for babies, and all the more typical things).
- Struggled more and more with things that didn’t make sense to me as I i got older (if God created everything, knows what’s going to happen, etc., how does it make sense to pray for something? Should he changed his plan because I asked really nicely? Etc.).
- Finally realized that all the myriad things that didn’t make sense to me disappeared if it turns out there is no god.
- Free from that notion, everything has clicked into place for me and the world makes more sense. It’s been 40ish years since then.