Atheists & Agnostics
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(9,116 posts)I am a middle-aged white guy at the tail end of his 31st year.
I was born in Ohio, but moved to Connecticut at a very young age. I spent six years or so tooling around San Diego after college, before eventually settling in Michigan with my wife and my two cats. We both work in academics.
In the sense that my immediate family was nominally Catholic and that I was sent to Catholic school for a number of years, I guess I was raised Catholic. But I don't really like this term; unlike my extended family, my parents were never enthusiastically religious. I wasn't raised to believe anything, really.
I can't remember a time when any of the church's teachings made sense to me, even in my youngest and most credulous years, so I didn't experience a "deconversion" like many others have. I never felt duped, lied to, or used. Mostly, I felt like a cigarette smoker at an American Lung Society fundraiser.
In my off hours, I write and compose. I am also an avid gamer. I discovered DU in the mid-2000s or so, but while I came here often for the articles, videos, and Conservative Idiots of the Week, I was loathe to participate until recently (I had other haunts at the time).