I was brought up in a very vague CoE household. We never went to church, never did anything overtly religious - the topic was never really brought up.

When a girlfriend of mine 'converted' to Christianity - or more accurately, she became fervent about it, I decided to look into the whole thing a bit more. I read the Bible from cover to cover and found the whole thing faintly ridiculous. I couldn't understand how anyone could believe that this was the word of God - it was boring, inaccurate, contradictory, violent, immoral, unethical and just plain silly.

I did some more digging into belief and found that I was, essentially, an atheist, although I went under the agnostic banner for a while. I just didn't believe. The god of the Bible was a petty, small minded, geographically illiterate mountain god with a persecution complex who would torture you for all eternity for a finite crime.