People write about "religious instinct". The search for meaning in the universe so closely connected to an existence past death, doesn't show up in people whose upbringing was wholely secular.
You're going to talk about the converts-to-whatever-fundementalism who speak of the emptiness of the unreligious lives they and their families led. The lack of religion tends to be overstated. If they're Jews, they went to temple, and sporadically kept kosher. If they're Christians, often they were Main-Line protestants of a rather ethereal sort.
Not atheist.
Those raised away from religion tend to look at it with interested curiousity, not fervor.
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