I was raised Catholic, but have been an atheist since age 10 or so. I kept going to church until Confirmation (two more years) because it was important to my parents.
Hey, another ex-Catholic here. Went from accepting whatever people told me is true, to adopting what I called “relaxed Catholicism” (birth control is OK, babies don’t go to limbo/hell if not baptized, etc. basically live your life in the “do unto others” fashion), to searching through protestant religions, then pagan ones, then realizing that none of them fit because I just couldn’t buy the supernatural hooha involved in all of them.
Now I’m a secular humanist.
I’m totally tolerant of others’ beliefs as long as they don’t infringe on the rights of other people, including the right to be left alone after saying “no, thanks.”
My mother was a Catholic, my father was a respectful agnostic. I was raised Catholic. Gee, sounds familiar, doesn’t it.
I actually didn’t have any major problems with being Catholic, but my divorce and remarraige meant that I needed to explore other options. So now I’m a pretty middle-of-the-road, mainstream Protestant-type Christian.
I don’t proselytize, I don’t condemn. If you’re interested, I’ll be happy to tell you what religion means to me (I happen to like it). If you’re not interested, that’s okay, I have many other interests I can use to make conversation.
And good luck to all of us.
I think I’ll keep that as a backup sig 
A joke for all the former Catholics:
Person one: F*** you!
Person two: And also you.
Ex-Catholic, now Wiccan.
Formerly Christian, currently atheist.
Have been known to suggest the occasional goat sacrifice, just to piss off the neighbors.
Was nominally raised Episcopalian. In my teens, I went thru an agnostic/atheistic phase. When a couple of Catholic friends found this out, they read me the “religious riot act” which just confirmed my non-believe even further. 
Whilst in the military, I tried the “born again Xian” thing. It didn’t work. For 3 days I went around with a LOUD arguement in my head between “God” and “Satan” apparently. I gave that up.
Found Wiccan in the early 80s and enjoyed it. It was peaceful, happy and wasn’t concerned about who I went to bed with. Was touched by Freyr (the God) on Winter Solstice of '84. Been gleeful ever since.
My view of other religions, if you’re happy with it and it’s not hurting anyone else, go for it!
If it appears I have a problem with Xianity, it’s because many (especially fundamentalists) Xians often walk around with the attitude of “I’ve got the ONE TRUE religion and you don’t!” That gets very boring very soon.
Lesse…
Raised Catholic (Mom’s side is Catholic Dad’s side I dunno what they believe but I think they’re Protestant) Um myself I have no clue what I believe so I don’t follow any religion. (Yah I’ll pray if I’m at a Christian function… most of the people I knew/know before my move were Christian/Catholic) I just try to be a good person in general and stuff like that. Um my family probably thinks I’m Catholic/Christian but I haven’t had the chance to correct them about anything like that. (We don’t talk about religion… or politics really for that matter)
About other religions I guess I feel okay they are cool just as long as they don’t start telling me what to believe. They can believe what they want and me what I want (even if I’m not certain what that is) and as long as we are good people in general I think we’re fine.
Militant Agnostic
meaning I get into fistfights with atheists.
“to be certain is to be uncomfortable. to be certain is to be ridiculous.” proverb
definitly. another of gandhi’s greatest-
interviewer: what do you think of Western civilzation?
gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
As a kid, my family was Church of Christ. Later, we attended a nondenominational Christian church for a few years. My identity as a Christian took a rather big hit when I was in the sixth grade or so. I started having major doubts as to whether or not any religion can really claim to be the one truth religion, with only faith as the justification for this claim. I was especially put off by the Christian (esp. fundamentalist) assertion that heaven was accessible only through Jesus, and that all others are going to be char-broiled for eternity, regardless of how they conducted their lives. As I got older, I also started having difficulty with some of the concepts in Christianity, such as mankind being inherently evil, and that conducting oneself in the proper manner was not as important as “being saved.”
My best friend in the sixth was Jewish, and so was a person who played such an instrumental role in my life between the ages of 2 1/2 and 6 that I cannot calculate the debt I owe him. Had a hard time with the idea that God would keep a torture chamber and condemn these individuals and so many others there simply because they never “found Christ.”
I’m not a church-going type. I do believe in God, but not the anthropomorphic God that many believe in. I don’t think of myself as a Christian. (Incidentally, I have no internal conflict between the Big Bang, evolution, and my belief in God.) My personal attitude about religion can be summarized simply as, “worry about your own faith, and don’t worry about your neighbor’s faith.”
I was born Anglican. I now swing between atheism and Wicca. I guess that would make me an agnostic neo-pagan. I never went to church, and I cannot make myself believe there is a ‘supreme’ being. OTOH, I have had experiences involving Wicca that are beyond my understanding. I have been given the proof that the Goddess exists, but I still can’t believe IYKWIM.
I guess you can just put me down as confused.
Heathen, and proud of it. 
No, seriously, I try to avoid all forms of organized religion. I just don’t see the point in it.
Formerly atheist.
Currently atheist.
BTW, opening a thread on the subject of religion won’t get you “so killed” unless you’re being intentionally abrasive. Here at the SDMB we are usually quite happy to discuss our religion or lack thereof politely. Unless you start baiting people I wouldn’t worry about getting flamed.
I’m a devout athiest. And except for a couple of years in the mid-1980’s when I gave Buddhism a try, I always have been.* My own headspace nowadays is not incompatable with many of the tenets of Buddhism, but I do not actually practice any kind of religion at this point.
As for other people’s religions, my view is that other people can believe whatever they want to believe as long as they extend me the same courtesy.
(And I can get particularly nasty with people who won’t extend me that courtesy. To a Christian Bible-Thumper who took my being an athiest as some sort of personal challenge, I gave a moderately severe crisis of faith: first, through calm discourse, I got her to agree that Mahatma Ghandi was the best example of a Good Person that the 20th Century had produced… then I showed her that according to her beliefs, Ghandi is burning in Hell for not being a Christian. She had a hard time dealing with that…)
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- Both of my parents had long since abandoned the religions in which they had been raised by the time they got together. I was raised in a household totally without religion. I was never baptized. It wasn’t until I was in the third grade that I heard about God and Jesus. By that time I already knew that entities such as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny weren’t real, and so I put these “new characters” into the same category…
I have no religion. I don’t like to call myself an atheist because that gives me a label which defines me according to my religious beliefs or lack thereof. I wish there was a place where people didn’t feel a need for religion or even have to discuss it. Japan comes pretty close, so I suppose that’s one reason I stay here.
I’m definitely an agnostic… and like most people, I would say that I have no problem with what anyone believes as long as they respect me… BUT, I think that that’s a tiny bit of a copout.
I’m going to try to make my point by bringing up an even more controversial topic, abortion. I myself am pro-choice. And I would like to join in with the many people who condemn the apparent hypocrisy of people who bomb abortion clinics, shoot abortion doctors, etc. But I don’t think it’s quite that easy. What if someone really truly does believe that a fetus is a human life? In that person’s world view, here’s this building in which apparently responsible and professional people go into work all day long and kill people. If someone really does believe that each fetus is a human life, I don’t see how they’d have any choice but to put huge amounts of will and effort into protesting it, and it would be easy for that will to push over into violence… imagine if there was a place of business where parents could take gay children and have them killed. Could you really blame someone who eventually took the law into their own hands in an attempt to stop such a thing? (To repeat, I do not believe that newly conceived fetuses are people… but if someone else does and follows the above chain of logic to the conclusion that violence against abortion clinics is justified, I can’t come up with a strong argument against them…) (I also believe, and I wish this weren’t the case, that one of the reasons that a large number of people (perhaps including myself) believe that a fetus is not a human being is because they look ahead and realize the implications of a fetus being human… which is very understandable if one does not like the idea of lots of young women ending up with babies they don’t want and thus mistreat and other women suffering from badly performed illicit abortions… but being understandable and being logically sound are unfortunately not the same thing). (As for myself, since I’ve already hijacked the thread this far, I believe that the most reasonable definition for when human life begins is the point in time at which the fetus could reasonably survive outside the mother.)
Getting back to the original topic of religion, if someone else truly and honestly believes that I and billions of other nonchristians are going to burn in hell for all eternity, yet could relatively easily be saved and spend eternity in paradise, well, not only can I not blame them for trying to communicate this wonderful truth to me, even somewhat insistently, heck, I should thank them for caring about me so much
(There’s a big difference between someone saying “I have the one true religion, and you’re going to hell unless you learn what I have to say, and I’m going to really go out there and get in your face with my information, because I honestly care about your eternal soul” and someone saying “I have the one true religion, and thus all other people are subhuman devilspawn who it is my duty to exterminate/torture/expell/whatever”)
Born and raised as a Conservative Jew, I vacillated between different Eastern religions for a while, and then settled upon a vague conglomeration of Animism and Wiccan.
Currently non-practicing.
I am now and will always be a Latter-Day Saint. We (as does everyone) profess to be the one true church in the last days. However, I know that this is the one. There is no point in trying to get me to believe otherwise. Our church also actively strives (you may already know) to convert others. This may seem like an intolerant view to some, but just think of this analogy I’m making up as I type:
You are about to take a finals math exam and everyone around you has mistakenly learned that 2+2=5. You know that it isn’t true because you paid attention in class, but some of your best friends will surely fail if you don’t do something, and then you would become the CEO of a major corporation while they get stuck as bathroom attendants. Wouldn’t you try to get your peers to recognize their folly? Would your friends say you were being intolerant of their views of addition?