I've heard about atheists who have been homeschooled by religious parents, or went to private religious schools and it seems that played a big part in them actually being atheists. I had religious parents, but they weren't what you'd consider hardcore fanatics, and only forced me to go to church a few times when I was 5. I went to a public school and it made me hate government more than it made me really think about religion, even though I was close friends with the only known atheist in our class. I didn't become an atheist until my 20's, after I got around people who were debating it a lot and I got to hear arguments for and against it. It made me really think about it for the first time, when before I was just neutral on the subject.

There's a lot of talk among atheists about how religious schooling is bad and public schools are good, and I can see why they might think that, but it seems being raised in an extremely religious childhood makes a lot of people turn away from that religion and makes them more likely to find atheism. I'm not saying it's good to be raised by religious fanatics, I'm just stating what seems to be happening.

I'm just kind of interested in knowing if atheists who were raised in this kind of way think it played a big part in them being atheists and got them thinking more critically of religion than what most people do. Do you think you'd be an atheist today if it wasn't for that? Do you think religious homeschooling is going to make more religious people in the world, or do you think it's going to backfire on a lot of these parents and their kid are going to be more anti-religious than most people? Are there any studies on religiously homeschooled kids to see if it actually makes them more religious, or not?

TL;DR: Did being homeschooled by religious parents play a huge part in you being atheist? Do you think homeschooling is going to make more religious people in the world, backfire and make more atheists, or maybe do both?