Does your experience with religion as a child influence how you approach Atheism?

[dimbear]

2. My grandfather taught me how to sing "Jesus Loves Me" in Swahili.

I can still do it a lifetime later.

It was my grandmother who went kind of ballistic when she got of whiff of her pagan grandkid. Bad scene followed.

Since that incident, no problems with the relates. In fact my aunt was infinitely amused by my skepticism. I would argue her into a corner and she would laugh and laugh and go "My, my." I miss those arguments.

It certainly must flavor my behavior, coming out of that pious background.