My family frankly they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.