Path.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I try not to hold grudges.  The few that pop up unrequested are against a certain group of children, but the only one of them I can bring to mind is easily dismissed by the look on his face at his father's funeral, a father who shot himself in the head because he was as poor as I, but pretending to be as rich as the rest.  He was the ringleader of the group who picked on me and it turned out that he was as poor as the kids he picked on for being poor.

I see... That environment sounds abusive, to say the least.

The reason I'm asking is that if faced with similar circumstances, I would probably become a serial killer. I forget, but never forgive, you see... And the fact that people can just keep on going without getting back at the world fascinates me.

I think we have a professional detective here.

[PoopShoot]

Damn, sounds like a liberal version of the place I grew up in!  If you can imagine it any less liberal

I was lucky enough to be in a congregation of over 5000, securing the need for PR.

[Asmodean]

I think we have a professional detective here.

Me..? More like a homicidal engineer, actually... Running with scissors and all that.  

[Thumpalumpacus]

I think we have a professional detective here.

Me..? More like a homicidal engineer, actually... Running with scissors and all that.  

Well, yeah, there's that.

[Velma]

Short version:  raised catholic, converted to fundamentalist baptist, joined other churches - each more fundamentalist than the last, wound up in an extremely fundamentalist nondenominational church, returned to catholicism, then atheism.

Long version, here.

[hackenslash]

Born atheist, dragged to church till 13 'ish remained atheist, still atheist, will die atheist (unless given a valid reason to do otherwise).

Ditto, apart from the last bit. There is no valid reason for me to become otherwise. I have no god, regardless of the actual existence of one. I have no want or need of such an entity. What do you do with one anyway? Does it stand in the corner gathering dust, like the guitar you got for your 13th birthday that you always promised yourself that you'd learn to play? Wheel it out as a conversation starter at parties?

No, the idea has no utility for me whatsoever.

What is God does exist and there was sufficient evidence to convince you? You would no longer be an atheist. What you did about the knowledge that God existed would be another issue entirely, but you could no longer call yourself an atheist. To say I will die an atheist is impossible to say as I can't see into the future. I don't expect there to be evidence for the existance of God so I will probably die an atheist.

No, I would still be an atheist, because I would still have no deity. At that point, the accusation of the credulous concerning rejecting god would be true. It isn't mine, and I don't want it.