Where I grew up it was considered kind of inappropriate to be too outspoken about one's religious beliefs, and when it was discussed, it was generally in an intellectual kind of way. As a result I had a very live-and-let-live, nobody-knows-for-sure attitude toward religion. It wasn't until I moved around the country a bit and started running into more and more pushy religious people that I started to develop more of a you-don't-know-what-you're-talking-about, leave-me-the-hell-alone position.
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