I was born in Delhi in India and I grew up in Bombay. I grew up as a Hindu and I've been living in London for the last 18 years.

Around about 2003 I decided that I'm not going to be a Hindu anymore.

I decided that I am not going to be a Hindu anymore. I decided that I am not going to practice any religion.

My name is Aliath. I am an ex-Muslim atheist. I grew up in London and I left Islam

when I was 19 years old.

For me, leave in Islam was a means to become free. I felt like I had got to a place where I had torn apart the fabric of so many things that I'd been indoctrinated with almost by myself. I was really proud of it.

My name's Johnny. I grew up as an evangelical Christian, I guess you'd say.

There's this narrative within the Christian circles that I grew up with that if you start to hang out with the wrong people or you start to watch the wrong people or you start to watch the wrong TV shows

read the wrong books that the devil will get to you.

And that's essentially what happened to me.

I'm now an atheist and a humanist and pretty much everything that I believed was of the devil growing up.

I grew up within charismatic evangelical Christianity.

We believed that you had to be born again in order to be a true Christian.

So when I met someone and they told me they were a Christian, my automatic reaction was not to believe them.

Because we were taught, a lot of people believe that they were Christians, but they weren't true Christians because they hadn't

had that experience of being born again and they just thought that it was enough to

believe in God and we used to say well even the devil believes in God and it was

really important to make people become Christians because otherwise they were going to go to hell.

And that was just awful. I didn't want my friends to go to hell.

So I did take it upon myself to try and convert some of them.

And I remember one day talking to my best friend and asking

him if he was a Christian and him saying that he was, as I was with everybody,

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