People - I /was/ a Christian

Yeah, I hear He (PBUH) gets pretty irritated with all this talk of Him having a Son.... I grew up a Presbyterian missionary/then preacher's kid. My dad should really have been a math or science teacher, I think. He was a very caring person, but not a literalist at all. He preached from Genesis, treating it all as instructive moral lessons, not "facts." I learned all those Bible stories, some as the Sunday School pupil of THE Sam Walton, and pretty much bought into Christianity for a long time. I was pretty inactive for a long time, up into my early thirties, too. I then got very well immersed in the Episcopal church, and really tried hard to believe in all that Nicean Creed and such. In my mid-forties, though, the cognitive dissonance got to me and I gave church up. By fifty I could admit to people I was an atheist.Now I'm about to get militant about atheism.