Your beleifs.. from your parents?

[loinburger]

My parents are Catholic, I'm an atheist.

[Ramo]

My mom's a practicing Muslim and my dad seems vaguely unitarian (i.e., my parents are a combination of practicing organized and nonorganized). I'm an atheist.

[Wycoff]

My parents are practicing Protestants. I'm an agnostic (I selected athiest in your poll).

[Mao]

The people demand a banana option!

[Sava]

my mom considers herself Serbian Orthodox, but in reality she is basically agnostic... she identifies herself as Orthodox because the Church is more or less part of her Serbian culture more than anything else...


my dad is not religious at all... he never talks about religion one way or another... his family is Lutheran, but I suspect he is either agnostic or atheist...

My parents have never told me what to believe.

When I was younger, I went to Sunday school. I hated it. I got into arguments with the teachers.

Can you imagine me as a 6-7 year old kid basically with the same arguments I have now, only in Sunday school?

Well, that is what it was like.

Finally, I stopped going to Sunday school when I called the priest of our church a "fraud", the Bible "an evil book of twisted lies", and all the church goers "ignorant sheep".

I think I was 8 or 9.

it was quite a scene



My grandmother was disappointed because she wanted me to be brought up Orthodox. She was really pushing my mom to have me go to Sunday school. But my grandmother wasn't mad. In the end my "Baba" (grandma in Serbian) said that it had to be my choice and she understood why I felt the way I did. She told me, "God gave us a mind to use it, lose it, or abuse it". And that I was a smart boy and that I should use my mind.

[Stuie]

My parents were both practicing Catholics. I am an atheist.

[Arrian]

My parents... for all intents and purposes, they're atheists. But they used to occasionally show up at Church on Christmas Eve and they will call themselves Congregationalists if asked in the right way...

My father's primary religious assertion is that God is an Englishman.

I'm an atheist (well, as per the usual, technically I'm an agnostic).

-Arrian

[Zkribbler]

My mom was a practicing Methodist. My dad was more devout than her, but rarely attended church.

I'm a great believer in God, but haven't found a religion I'm confortable with yet. There was a quiz several months back on Poly and I was scored as a reformed Jew. Oi vey!

[Mr. Harley]

My father was a fundamentalist Catholic - going not only to services every Sunday but all the Holy Days.

My mother was rural - farming Methodist, who converted to Catholicism for my father. (i.e. practicing but more in actions than in service the closest Church was over an hour a way).

I am now a deist who doesn't believe in a significant afterlife (i.e. God has no involvement on a personal level, we have the significance to him that an individual bacterium has to us). If anything maybe I should have answered "organized to unorganized," (I answered other please post). I am closest to Toaist if I'm anything, and I do read the Tao Te Ching. I also really really hope that I'm wrong.

[Dis]

my mother was a catholic, though she wasn't a devout catholic. She tried to attend church fairly regularly when I was young. But when she worked on sundays that was difficult. Now she's not working. But she still doesn't attend church. But I think she's still catholic. She just doesn't like all the mexicans at the church. And many church services in her neighborhood are in spanish. I think my mother is racist against mexicans. oh well.

My father's family was mormon, but he himself wasn't mormon. He never discussed religion at all. I really have no idea what my father's religious beliefs were.

So I guess I take after my father. I have no religious beliefs.

P.S. I voted athiest. Though agnostic may be closer. I just don't give a **** one way or another. If there is a god and/or heavan, I'll find out eventually. But none of it really affects my life here on earth. I just go by what I see and experience. And so far, I have not experienced any divine intervention.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Mr. Harley
My father was a fundamentalist Catholic - going not only to services every Sunday but all the Holy Days.

My mother was rural - farming Methodist, who converted to Catholicism for my father. (i.e. practicing but more in actions than in service the closest Church was over an hour a way).

I am now a deist who doesn't believe in a significant afterlife (i.e. God has no involvement on a personal level, we have the significance to him that an individual bacterium has to us). If anything maybe I should have answered "organized to unorganized," (I answered other please post). I am closest to Toaist if I'm anything, and I do read the Tao Te Ching. I also really really hope that I'm wrong.

yeah, I think you would exactly fit into organized to unorganized...

thanks for the psot

JM

[lord of the mark]

I tend to think of going from Reform Judaism to ultraorthodox as going from organized to disorganized


Reform(esp if its a shul of German Jewish origin) : The service WILL start at 10AM. Luncheon WILL be served at Noon. Arrive late, and dont eat.


Ultraorthodox:Its 10 PM, Im starving - we cant eat till uncle Shlomo gets back from shul - but MY shul finished at 9 PM - well Uncle Schlomos shul they go slowly, and sometimes he stops to talk with his friends before coming home - grrr, looks at watch.

[Mercator]

My parents were practising Catholics when I was young (though apart from the going to church on Sunday there wasn't much else going on), but now I'm not so sure what their beliefs are. I think they still believe to some extent. I'm a hard atheist.

[Odin]

Parents are non-practicing Lutherans, I'm Atheist.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I'm fascinated that atheist/athiest is winning, and organized/athiest is in second place. Apparently, athiest parents have an easier time transmitting family values.

Anyway, for me it's practicing/nonorganized; parents churchgoing Catholics, me deist flirting with Buddhism.

(Just our of curiosity: my sister also ran screaming from the arms of the One True Church, and is now a Unitarian; is she different-organized or nonorganized?)