Guys, he gets the point about atheism being a total rejection of the existence of god already, the point he’s wondering about is if you’re more likely to totally reject god based on the view of god and religion you were brought up with. It’s going to be a lot harder to believe in a system that’s “full of contradictions and backasswards logic” as ABoyNamedBoobs03 says. I was neither raised Catholic, nor am I currently atheist, but I can tell you my status as agnostic was thoroughly influenced by my upbringing in a Protestant sect. My view of the religion I was raised with (specifically the take that my relatives and minister had on it) was that it was morally consistent (and forgiving), but not entirely consistent factually, and had evolved from a system that hadn’t been even vaguely logically consistent (read: Middle ages Roman Catholicism). Not to mention being inconsistent with various archeological findings. To be completely honest, the two reasons I’m not atheist are that I’ve experienced and seen things I consider spiritual, and that the religion I was raised with was morally consistent. The reasons I’m not religious involve the factual inconsistencies, and the fact that there’s little evidence of anyone contradicting the crazy crap the Catholic church came up with in the middle ages. If I’d been raised to believe that the only god that existed was supposedly omniscient, yet wouldn’t forgive me for my human failure, I’d probably be atheist. If I’d been raised in a religious system that was entirely consistent, even with historical data, I might still be religious. Even if I’d been raised in a system that had always been logically and morally consistent, that might even be enough for me to at least call myself a participant of the religion.