I was raised fairly liberal, but parents who didn't really care or believe in god, but nonetheless thought that it was the bourgeois thing to do to provide their kids with the full catholic program offered by the church, communion and all.
It's hard to say how that fucked me up. I'm an adult now, and don't consider these things allot. Yet, there's this tendency to be hung up about guilt and consider myself the root of all evil around me that I suspect is, (among other things) connected to the morality that was shoved down my throat by the good priests. It's hard to disentangle the different factors. But I can tell you for a fact that it is psychologically unhealthy to feel guilty about masturbating because you can't knock of the suspicion that some obscure sky being was watching you all along...
It's really hard to put the finger on. Yet I am convinced that in my case, some damage lingers on. Of course, this is no guarantee that I wouldn't suffer from the same issues without ever having come into contact with religion. It's just that they certainly upped the odds for it, which I find bad enough in itself.
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