As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.
God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.
Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.
Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.
People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.
I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.