"It never really occurred to me to believe in God"

Like David Attenborough I was fortunate enough to be brought up without religious influence at home. Attenborough said in a recent interview,

It never really occurred to me to believe in God – and I had nothing to rebel against, my parents told me nothing whatsoever. But I do remember looking at my headmaster delivering a sermon, a classicist, extremely clever … and thinking, he can’t really believe all that, can he? How incredible!

I am told that I turned round to the headmaster of my primary school (Turville C of E school, now a nursery) and told him that I did not believe in god because he couldn't possibly have created the world in 7 days.

Many years later the place became the setting of "The Vicar of Dibley" and "Midsomer Murders"!