I do have to say that my years in Catholic grade school were not wasted. I learned two very important things:
1: The Catholic Church is full of crap.
2: Whoever this Jesus person may or may not have been, he was a really nice guy for the most part and I like to think that, even though I am now an atheist, if he really did/does exist, he would approve of how I live and treat my fellow beings on this earth.