I grew up Catholic. My belief in God was strong when I was young but declined asymptotically over decades. It was not until about age 58 that I explicitly said that there was no God (though in practice I had already ceased believing).
I had an immediate sense of freedom, of control lifting from me. But was that good? With no justice and punishment in the afterlife, and probably no afterlife anyway, I was free to do whatever I liked, even if bad. I was quite conscious of this change.
My behaviour did not change though. The Catholic system shaped me and I did not shed that. Religion works as even atheists such as Hegel understood.
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