i'm NF and i was an atheist for a while..as a child and young teen. maybe i was more philosophically agnostic, but for me personally, there was simply no god... i saw an unjust world of suffering and power imbalances and i believed that if there was a god, it would be too benevolent to allow for the creation or perpetuation of such constructs (it wasn't that i didn't think god could be more complex than just 'good', it's just that such a god would hold little interest for me at the time). that notion paired with the harsh realities of what organized religion had done historically just kind of scared me. socially i was definitely not in favor of the fundamentalists, at least not most of the time. that didn't help sell religion to me either.
also, as a female from a catholic background, i felt quite alienated (/insulted) by patriarchy and did not want to follow anybody that reinforced it. -why couldn't i become a priest someday if i wanted to? was i somehow farther from god than the boy sitting next to me? these kinds of thoughts barred me from feeling embraced, and thus from myself embracing, the faith in tandem with the religious culture i was exposed to. i felt like it was sham to say the bible was inerrant and perfect, and it was not a church of the love and brotherhood jesus talked about in that book because it did seek to exclude, and it did seek to profit. these were the things that cut me off from spirituality for years.
despite my distate for religion at the time, i was always fascinated by ancient history, especially cultures like the egyptians who had numerous mythologies and multiple deities, elaborate death and burial rituals, afterlife beliefs, and mysticisms.. thankfully my parents indulged me and took me to museums, got me books, and let me explore what i found interesting. things didn't quite 'click' in my head about my own attitudes toward spirituality beyond what i always had known: that i had an insatiable desire to know more, and that i saw faith and religion as separate.
..it wasn't until i had many strange experiences that i began to believe in something beyond what i could quantify or prove, or observe from a detached historical standpoint. it wouldn't have been a good choice to just ignore what i didnt like or what didnt match up with the world view i had at the time, that was something i had learned the reverse-psychology way by observing some older folks i had known.
so, ultimately, i guess you could say i became persuaded by somewhat 'mystical' experiences.. to at least become agnostic and open to studying modern religion again..
religion and ritual have powerful psychological effects, but that is the extent of what they are to me, at least i think that to be true at the moment i am typing this post.
i am an agnostic theist at this point.