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

[Odin2005]

17. No. I grew up in a mainstream Lutheran household.

My mom made me go to church more out of Upper-Midwest small town social propriety then out of conviction. To her going to church is "just something you do", belief never entered the picture. In fact I don't think my mom has given a single thought about religious belief in and of itself, she is a liberal Theist who believes that (quoting her) "God loves everybody", but doesn't seem to reflect much about it. She is "concerned" that I don't go to church, but that has to do with said social propriety and nothing to do with any fear that I will go to hell (because she thinks only "bad people" go to Hell, not non-believers).

My Dad and his side of the family (all Lutherans as well) are somewhat more religious than my mom, but they are very tolerant and have the same "God loves everybody and only sends bad people to Hell" attitude at odds with the bigotry of the doctrine they adhere to.

There was never an exact moment that I "became" an Atheist, I slowly just fell away from religion in my late teens after I was confirmed.