I am a devout atheist, if there is such a thing. I was raised Protestant. My parents sent me to a Southern Baptist school for high school and I hated every minute of it. I tried to get expelled a few times. Listening to them drone on and on about how everyone but Baptists were going to hell got old very fast. It has given me a very bad opinion of religion in general. The fact that I am lesbian doesn't really help too much, since I have gone toe to toe with a few hate-spewing Christians at protests/demonstrations.

Some people can hold faith in the most graceful ways and I have the deepest respect for them and others seem to use it as a way of feeling better than someone else.