I was lucky I suppose. I was raised in a reasonable church. It's
  a methodist church in my hometown in NJ - a town with only two
  churches, a protestant and a catholic. So, we went to the
  Protestant one because it wasn't Catholic.

  The teachings if I had to summarize, were "Do Good, Be Good, See
  Good". Nothing about hell. Jesus was basically a really nice guy
  to look up to as a role model. Old Testament God was seen as a
  flawed interpretation, almost ignorable etc.

  I was lucky because I never really met or saw anybody that fit
  the Believer category til I was in my 20s. They didn't make
  sense to me. The people I grew up with were doctors, engineers,
  scientists, housewives, business people, etc. Well educated, no
  contradiction between going to church and Big Bang or Evolution
  and stuff like that.

  So while I'm basically a "Go Science Yay" guy, people who
  congregate reasonably about reasonable things and have
  reasonable goals to improve the world - I don't care what they
  believe happens when they die, so long as they're decent people
  here. So for me, I couldn't be Atheist; I don't know either way
  and it really doesn't matter much to me so long as people are
  decent and kind, have an accurate view of history and science
  etc.

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