What religion were you (if any) before becoming an atheist?

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Originally Posted by Grandstander

I might respect it as well if I didn't suspect it was just a manifestation of some perverse obsession with blood and gore on Gibson's part. Remember how "Braveheart" ended? It was with the gooey, gruesome torture and death of William Wallace. "Apocalypto" was filled with gore and violence, forced marches through deadly jungles, people being used as human targets in an archery practice, human manhunts, a sadist named "Middle Eye", a village attacked and destroyed.

When Mel is directing, you can't have too much stage blood on hand.

Yeah, I noticed that. It seemed to be associated with a an expression of Martydom "How could you do this to me?" In The Patriot. Which was hardly as faithful to the history as "The passion" was to the gospels.

[The Dissenter]

Originally Posted by BBCjunkie

The thread title pretty much says it all. :-) I'm just curious as to whether any one religion (Catholic, Lutheran, Jewish, Muslim, Baptist, Pentecostal, etc etc etc) might tend to produce more "escapees" than others.

Recently I had a conversation with someone who is a believer but was raised Protestant (don't know which denomination) and eventually abandoned organized religion altogether when in her early fifties. She asked me "if most atheists used to be Catholic" and I said I had no idea but it got me wondering.

I was raised Catholic.

Raised Baptist, became non-denominational Christian, considered studying and converting to Islam, became agnostic before arriving at Atheism.

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That's quite a CV.