I was raised Christian (United Church of Canada, a fairly liberal Protestant denomination), baptized and confirmed. I never was really into the church stuff, and (I found out later) neither were my parents, especially after they moved to Montreal. They’ve stopped going, even though they consider themselves deeply Christian (my mother was recently baptized).
Anyway, around the same time I came out, I found a copy of The Spiral Dance in my school library, recognizing it, believe it or not, as it had been plugged in Cecil’s column on love spells in the first SD book. (True!!) Anyway, that book is a fascinating introduction to Wiccan theory, and I felt a very extraordinary net of insights growing in my mind in response to it.
Over the next few years, with the help of friends, various work, public rits, the Internet, and hefty amounts of just pondering, I developed my own religious beliefs, which are of course peculiar to me, although I find the term Wicca (or more specifically, animist existentialist humanist Wicca) applies best to me.