Losing belief

My parents are Anglican as far as I know, but they've never seemed all that religiously adherent. Oddly, I got landed in a Christian boarding school for ten years (I figure it gave them something to boast about at social engagements while they were still together). That significant a chunk of your life spent being belittled for faithlessness is no charitable experience. Three hours' detention spent analysing bible passages in return for skipping on a half-hour service? Oh, yeah, seems fair to me. Not really sure what I was thinking, willingly distancing myself from endless hate speech and patronisation like that.

I was never committed to anything as a kid, but being put through the christ-grinder was enough for me to drop any notions of spirituality forever.

Jam it back in, in the dark.