What is your faith/religion?

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Practical atheist since age 10, highly theoretical atheist from 14 onward (naturalistic and dysteleologically mechanistic thinking started around age 12).

Never convinced otherwise.

I have strong inclinations toward atheism, but I prefer the label "non-religious".

I am an atheist. I don't think I can be considered to have turned one at the age of 9-15 though. Hard to say though. When I entered my teenage years, I turned more into a constructivist about God. That is to say that God is a construct that should be constructed in a manner such that it will promote proper societal order.

I turned a bit more atheist at the end of high school.

Then in Freshman year of college, I converted to an extreme fundamentalist Christianity. My reasoning was that it was there, because I didn't really care, and because women on average are more religious than men. The strange thing is that while at first I was just playing the game, eventually I gave myself in to it. It didn't work out, which is strange among the lives of those who know they are to be morally perfect, but it didn't. The way I left was itself deeply psychologically scarring, and I jumped into atheism moral rejection first, and dysteleology second, which is odd because for a time I ended up basically being a satanist, and also because a lot of atheists hold to more teleology than they ever should.

And so yeah... I am an atheist, but I really turned one in college.

Born roman catholic, and it was a very literalistic version of RC.

Since become an agnostic anti-theist, who tries to live like an atheist.
Converted slowly through a more spiritualistic version of christianity which started 2nd year univ.
About 5 years later after getting involved in politics... I gave up religion. I threw it away like a dirty habit.
It was a slow realization that came to me that it was all BS!

But if i have to pick something as god... and if i had to worship it, it would be free will.
But, as strongly as i lean to free will, I am just that bit of an agnostic toward it too.

The thing is with me, being anti-theist, it means I don't care if there is a god, he's irrelevant to me, and I will live regardless of it... In that i would not change my life, in any way, were I to know that there was a god... At least in any god that is possible.
Many people interpret it as being closed minded toward religion.

Dudeism

I was raised in a non-religious environment, baptised solely for societal purposes. My first real encounter with religion was during communion, where I was required to have a talk with the local priest. It was enlightening in the sense that I then realised this Man of God couldn't hold up to the questions of a 12 year old without spouting nonsensical tales containing some alledged moral lesson.

I've been an atheist since, open to the possibility of spirituality but closed to the notion of religion.