Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

That's kind of you to ask, SGR - but I'm afraid there's no dramatic answer. After years of literal indoctrination at school, I shifted to agnostic. Later on I became mildly interested in astronomy, inspired by Isaac Azimov's great book, The Universe.
With all that science, the idea of a God became less and less plausible to me, then about 30 years later it occured to me: I don't need a God, I can't imagine a God, so that's when I changed my designation. (Prompted partly by living in Mexico, where 83% of the people are Catholics and churches are full every Sunday. People are so convinced that their religion is the norm that I have had students ask me without preamble in front of the class, "Are you a Catholic?". That was the question that made me think that I should have a firm answer. Funniest moment was when I told one student I was an athiest and she said in a surprised voice, "But you're a nice person!!")