Yeah, SG, I'm a lapsed Catholic, and my Catholic school, church, and CCD classes did not kill me. But I've seen what hard-core Catholicism has done to my mom and our relationship.
I recognize cool religious things like the Inverted Arch at Wells Cathedral, all the "smells and bells" of the Catholic Mass, the scary paintings of the stations of the cross etc. I don't know. I don't and likely won't have kids anyway, so it's a moot point.
There are societies/cultures that are basically agnostic and/or atheist. I think of France and perhaps the Netherlands here. I don't know. It's the fanaticism I see, and the literalism. I think the Bible DOES have some life lessons to offer, but people tend to mix those up with righteousness. I don't know.
Maybe this is why I like the modernists (Klee, Kandinsky, Miro, etc.).