 Were you always an atheist? Were you raised one? No, I wasn't raised anything. I became a born-again Christian, actually, an evangelical Christian in 1972 when I was in high school. Then I went to Pepperdine University in Malibu to major in theology. And I took the whole thing pretty seriously. But then after about seven years, I ended up giving it up. I wasn't really an atheist. I just did nothing. And this was back in the 70s and 80s when the whole atheism thing didn't even exist.