Thanks, robomatic.

From grade 2 to grade 4, I was in public school in Rhode Island (Warwick). There was one Jewish family in our neighborhood. Everyone else was either Catholic or Protestant. I used to be told on a regular basis that I was going to go to hell by some of the kids I went to school with because I didn't belong to their religion. But I was not the only kid of my religion in my school, and I imagine that kind of thing had a lot less impact on me than your situation had on you.

Grades 5 through 12 were in the Washington DC area where there was way too much diversity for anyone to be bothered with getting on anyone else's case about their religion (with the notable exception of that one teacher in the 6th grade).

Interestingly, when I have lived in areas that had very homogeneous populations in terms of religion (as well as race and ethnicity), in the absence of more obvious differences, people would create differences to squabble over.

In one town in western Maryland (Accident, Maryland), there are three Lutheran curches. Two of them are right next door to each other.