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No I was never religious. I went to a Catholic school where the teachers would read all kinds of books to us. We read things like Clifford the Big Red Dog and even as a kid I knew that this giant red dog didn't actually exist. It was just a story. The Bible was literally just another book to me. For whatever reason I never saw it any different than any of the other books we read, other than it was a super old one and had big words and a lack of pictures. And it was kind of boring.
As I got older and started going to church, I thought everyone just really really liked this book. Like it was such a good book they would all get together and read it and talk about it because they liked the story so much.
Then I finally clued in that, no, these people think all of this is true. It's like they read Clifford and thought that an actual dog the size of a house existed. It was all true, every word. That's also around the time I realized adults aren't all super smart like I thought they were.