Didn't really grow up in much of a religious family. Everyone in my family was basically a non-practicing Episcopalian. They never even got me baptized. My friend got me to become an Fundamentalist Evangelical Protestant in my teens. I finally got baptized then. But, I couldn't continue being one based on many of the contradictions between early Christianity and the doctrines of Evangelicalism. Searched for alittle bit. Thought of turning to my family's tradition of Anglicanism. I also thought of becoming a Lutheran. But, some of their ideas about marriage, and women's ordination caused me not too. I even thought of joining religions not Christian such as Judaism or Buddhism. I started learning more about the early Church's theology which caused me to start thinking about becoming an Eastern Orthodox. But, the evidence for Petrine Primacy caused me to become Catholic. I consider myself now to be a traditionalist Catholic. That basically means I do the stuff in the Church that was practiced before the 1969 missal and Vatican II.