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

[Rittermeister]

4. I'm still largely closeted, both politically and religiously

and listening to my family members and acquaintances speak candidly over a number of years has filled me with something very near loathing for them. These people universally despise me. They despise everything about me, my chosen profession, my beliefs, everything, and they don't even know it. Every problem in this country is blamed on people like me - atheistic liberal big-city scientists. On the few occasions I've been provoked to speak candidly, I've made it clear: I am hostile to religion. I think it provides no benefits but generates a great many horrible side effects. If you want to practice your delusions, fine, do it like tinfoil helmet crowd - in the shadows of rational society, with zero respectability or attention paid. And to hell with their tax exempt status. Our public schools and universities are starved of funding, students are paying crippling tuition, and we're letting little mini-Hitlers get up and speak every Sunday tax-free?