You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
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I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective.
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.
I was the black atheist kid in the all-white Catholic school run by nuns.
I'm not an atheist, but I'm not a Christian, either.
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
I was raised Christian; I was raised in the South where everybody's raised Christian, but at this point, I'm 41 years old, and I've been an atheist, at this point, a little more than half my life.
When I was young, I was religious.
I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.