I was lucky I suppose. I was raised in a reasonable church. It's
   a methodist church in my hometown in NJ - a town with only two
   churches, a protestant and a catholic. So, we went to the
   Protestant one because it wasn't Catholic.

   The teachings if I had to summarize, were "Do Good, Be Good, See
   Good". Nothing about hell. Jesus was basically a really nice guy
   to look up to as a role model. Old Testament God was seen as a
   flawed interpretation, almost ignorable etc.

   I was lucky because I never really met or saw anybody that fit
   the Believer category til I was in my 20s. They didn't make
   sense to me. The people I grew up with were doctors, engineers,
   scientists, housewives, business people, etc. Well educated, no
   contradiction between going to church and Big Bang or Evolution
   and stuff like that.

   So while I'm basically a "Go Science Yay" guy, people who
   congregate reasonably about reasonable things and have
   reasonable goals to improve the world - I don't care what they
   believe happens when they die, so long as they're decent people
   here. So for me, I couldn't be Atheist; I don't know either way
   and it really doesn't matter much to me so long as people are
   decent and kind, have an accurate view of history and science
   etc.