 were you always an atheist were you raised one uh no i 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 and to major in theology and you know i took the whole thing pretty seriously but then after about seven years i ended up um giving it up i didn't i wasn't really an atheist i just was nothing um and you know this was back in the