What were you raised as?

Galphanore · Post by **Galphanore** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:07 am

I was just wondering what religion, if any, all of you were raised in.

k-nug · Post by **k-nug** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:25 am

Hmm, another person raised Mormon. I'm glad to see that.

Undertow · Post by **Undertow** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:46 am

I wasn't raised as anything. Religion is a non-issue either way in my family.

I was first a skeptic, then a scientist, then an atheist. The former two leading me to the latter through no outside influence. Well, to be fair, I did go to a Lutheran highschool.

Cathar1950 · Post by **Cathar1950** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:45 am

k-nug wrote:Hmm, another person raised Mormon. I'm glad to see that.

I wonder if I was that Mormon as my grandfather and my fathers side were strong Reorganized Latter Day Saints, now call a few new names. But my Mother's side were all Baptist or Presbyterian. Later was I Nazarene, Methodist and then Mennonite.

pwsoldier · Post by **pwsoldier** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:13 pm

I was born and raised mormon. My parents are both converts and very devout. They know that I no longer associate myself with the LDS church, but I have yet to tell them that I've made the switch to atheism.

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:36 pm

RC from birth til about grade 7 (when it was suggested that I go to 'public school'.

I don't ever remember believing, but I do remember trying to think of what to come up with for confession that would get me out quickly and without so much time on my knees.

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:37 pm

Confused wrote:...snip... moved to Alaska and after my dad left us. So never went into a church until 4 years ago.

Are you still living in Alaska? I am living in the north also (though in the Canadian side)

Fallibleone · Post by **Fallibleone** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:06 am

I was raised outside of religion. My father had abandoned Catholicism, the religion of his parents, as a young adult and my mother has only ever been agnostic. I was raised to believe that religion was nonsense and I was never christened. I spent a very long time trying to make myself believe in God and return to what I saw as my Catholic roots. God spectacularly failed to get in touch. Happily, at the age of roughly 19 I gave up on such fruitless endeavours and welcomed in logical thought.

OnceConvinced · Post by **OnceConvinced** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:19 pm

Most churches I grew up in were pentecostal. Varying degrees. Some where very mild, others more extreme. I've spent a bit of time in baptist churches, but they were always ones that endorsed speaking in tongues and gifts of the holy spirit.

Mcstar51 · Post by **Mcstar51** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:48 pm

My parents aren't religious and they always said I can believe what I want (but serious christianity is a load of crap). Some of my family are christians and I long for the day that I can have a proper debate with them but I guess I'm too young for them to take me seriously.

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:19 pm

Mcstar51 wrote:My parents aren't religious and they always said I can believe what I want (but serious christianity is a load of crap). Some of my family are christians and I long for the day that I can have a proper debate with them but I guess I'm too young for them to take me seriously.

I think you will do quite well if you only learn to ask and understand interesting questions.

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