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I'm curious which religions drive off more people.

Most of my extended family is Protestant, but my parents weren't religious. I've never been baptised (have some great aunts who think I'm going to hell for that) or attented a single church service, other than weddings and funerals.

Roman Catholic.

I was born Roman Catholic......but i'm feeling much better now

From my mother's side I'm descended from a Lutheran vicar... and I used to be more or less Christian.

This means that I'll have to vote Protestant.

Roman Catholic, the ultra racist variety.

Picked Roman Catholic, since my mother is one, but I wasn't raised in much of a religious environment at all, so it's not like anything "drove me off" so much as I "was never that interested."

Adopted via a catholic adoption agency, which meant part of the contract was that I be raised a catholic...gotta love religion eh?

I was raised more or less in religious absence, my parents are CoE and CoS by upbringing, in that they believe in God but dont go to church, pray or observe any particular christian ideology, they never pushed any of it on me, and the school system taught me enough about all the religions for interest level, in the end, I just decided that I didnt believe in a supreme diety and that science was the way I wanted to go.

on the paper i was protestant but i can´t remember ever believing in a god.

Protestant CoE, though it was my school, not my parents that taught me that.

I wasn't even christened, and have never been in any church...

I was Protestant. Pentacostal to be specific, and yes it most definately drove me off; although it took forever.

The religion thing never got me, though I kinda remember my mom trying to get me started on some eastern religion, probably Buddhism or Confucionism but I can't remember that far back.

Protestant.

Not raised anyway, but they did send me to a Christian school for the education. Probably Protestant, I didn't really know much about Christianity at the time.

Not atheist per-say, but I never had it pushed on me and from the time i can remember i've been reading and learning and watching educational tv. So i geuss born atheist is probably the best description.

Grandmother (Mother's side) claimed to be Roman Catholic, and my Mother Presbyterian. Not sure about my Father, but I'm thinking Southern Baptist (in his later years).

Me: Completely uninterested (Girlfriend wants otherwise, she's a Southern Baptist).

Protestant. It wasn't any particular practices of the sect that drove me away, it was my own thinking and realization.

Christian Scientist.
The aparent contradiction between such outragious bullshit, and the emphasis on rational scientific thought immunized me once my brain fully matured to the point of reason. (About 9/10) Ahhh! Grownups are full of shit!
Christian Scientists believe that since God made man in his image, and God isn't material, neigther are we. (Cookoo! Cookoo!)
The real world we see is an illusion by errors in perception.
There is no evil, only mortal error. The false belief in the material world. (Cookoo!Cookoo!)
If you have enough faith, and believe that sickness is just bad reasoning, you will get better. (Cookoo! Cookoo!)
Eventualy, when confronted by the aparent contradiction of you bodies death, (hey, what's that down there, ugh! It's my dead body. Funny I don't feel dead. Death must be BS)and your survival as a spiritual being, you will be given irrefutable proof of the falseness of corporiality.
Even the slowest of learners can't shrug that one off, so off to the true "real world" (Heaven) you go.
If you are particularly smart, you will ascend, like the Ancients of SG1, and skip the dying part.
Cookoo! Cookoo!
This left me well prepared to deal with solopsists idiots.

Greek Orthodox

I was baptised twice. Once at a Uniting Church, then a few weeks later at an Anglican church. It happened twice because my great-grandfather planned the first one. (He was very much a patriarch.) Mum didn't really like it so I had a second go.

Roman Catholic...apparently I'm baptized and such not.

Protestant...Free Presbyterian (an ultraconservative Fundie denomination that originated in Northern Ireland). It was not the policies of the church that eventually convinced me to abandon religion, however: it was the Bible itself.

Well, my mother's side of the family was mostly Anglican, but she converted to nullifidian when I was born. Ditto for my father, though his side was mostly catholic. So, I was raised by a pair of nullifidians, and didn't even hear about the concept of a 'god' until I was about 12. By then, thankfully, I had the rationality to put the claim right alongside Santa and the tooth fairy.

-Damien