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or like raised in a religious household?

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there was an attempt, but kinda half hearted. my mother claims its her greatest failing with us...

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Yeah, grew up in a small town that was Southern Baptist.

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Prestoff posted...

Yeah, grew up in a small town that was Southern Baptist.

you're religious now as an adult?

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Raised by my grandparents and taken to church every Sunday. I'm a Christian now.

JebronLames posted...

you're religious now as an adult?

No, I am an atheist but still pretend to be Southern Baptist to my parents because they would have a heart attack otherwise. The only people that know Im an atheist are my super close friends and my wife (who is Roman Catholic). Im pretty good at BSing prayers that people would think i pray everyday lol

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Christmas & Easter Christian for the most part.
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nope, not at all

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I was. I still am, but I don't go to church anymore
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At home, no, not at all. My school had assemblies every morning, with the Friday one being led by the local Vicar, but that's about it.

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The kind of extreme Catholicism that comes with first generation Hispanic immigrant families. Didn't take.

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Nah. My family is like sorta Christian maybe, but we never ever went to church. Non-denominational as it were

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My mom took us to church every sunday but it felt like she did just because that's what you do. My dad never went and, at some point, I kind of realized none of us really cared and we stopped going. We still celebrate Christmas but that's barely a Christian holiday anyways.

specialkid8 posted...

My mom took us to church every sunday but it felt like she did just because that's what you do. My dad never went and, at some point, I kind of realized none of us really cared and we stopped going. We still celebrate Christmas but that's barely a Christian holiday anyways.

Scholars believe Jesus was born around early-to-mid-September. Christmas is definitely more pagan/secular/commercial than Christian. That being said, my family celebrates it too, and we TRY to make it about Jesus.

I've been to church like 4 times in my life and it sucked every time. I seriously cant imagine wasting so much of my life on it the way some people do

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Yes, and I still have Catholic guilt.

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Catholic Mexican household.

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Gafemage posted...

Christmas & Easter Christian for the most part.

This, I've never actually been to church outside of going to a wedding or funeral.

My father is some sort of vague Christian, but I've never once seen him pick up a bible (oddly enough since he's super-conservative), and it turns out my mother is Atheist.
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Sort of. My mom took us to church most Sundays when I was young, but that stopped the time I was a teen. My dad usually didn't go to church except for Easter and Christmas some years

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Yes. Some of the bullshit I saw drove me away from religion.

Pastor drives to church in an Escalade or some other expensive vehicle
Pastor has a huge house
Church doesn't have air conditioning
Said church service in said building that doesn't have air conditioning lasts for 5 - 8 hours every Sunday
Religious people cherry-picking parts of the bible to bash over other people's heads
Same religious people often not following other parts of the bible

Just to name a few

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CableZL posted...

Yes. Some of the bullshit I saw drove me away from religion.

Pastor drives to church in an Escalade or some other expensive vehicle
Pastor has a huge house
Church doesn't have air conditioning
Said church service in said building that doesn't have air conditioning lasts for 5 - 8 hours every Sunday
Religious people cherry-picking parts of the bible to bash over other people's heads
Same religious people often not other parts of the bible

Just to name a few

People are flawed. Even when given something intrinsically perfect, we will find ways to misinterpret it and screw it up. That's an indictment on people, not on Christianity. Have you ever fallen short of your own standards in any way?

BuckVanHammer posted...

there was an attempt, but kinda half hearted. my mother claims its her greatest failing with us...

Pretty much this but much less dramatic at the end. I know she wishes she tried harder but she's not vocal about it and she seems fine with me. Not saying homies mom isn't fine with him. None of us kids deny God but it's very evident we're not giving our lives to it.

My closest cousin is actually deep into the Jehovah Witness life, but he doesn't push it on me either. And never calls me out when Id smoke weed and shit in the other room or outside his house. He accepted Im a good person that likes drugs. He's a forever sober.

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OfDustandBone posted...

People are flawed. Even when given something intrinsically perfect, we will find ways to misinterpret it and screw it up. That's an indictment on people, not on Christianity. Have you ever fallen short of your own standards in any way?

IMO there's a difference between "being flawed" and "actively making other people's lives worse by bullying them with your own cherry-picked beliefs."

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OfDustandBone posted...

People are flawed. Even when given something intrinsically perfect, we will find ways to misinterpret it and screw it up. That's an indictment on people, not on Christianity. Have you ever fallen short of your own standards in any way?

This sounds a lot like how communism is good on paper.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

I was. I still am, but I don't go to church anymore

Yeah, same. I definitely still consider myself "just as much" of a Christian as I was growing up but I don't really want to go to church. I do kinda sometimes think about going because while I don't want to force my daughter to go every time the door is open for 18 years I would kinda like her to have some basic little kid Sunday school experiences. And I had fun in youth group.

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CableZL posted...

IMO there's a difference between "being flawed" and "actively making other people's lives worse by bullying them with your own cherry-picked beliefs."

Thinking you're right and shitting on people you perceive as wrong is a pretty big characteristic of humanity. Definitely goes beyond religion.

specialkid8 posted...

Thinking you're right and shitting on people you perceive as wrong is a pretty big characteristic of humanity. Definitely goes beyond religion.

Correct, but religion has been specifically used as a justification for so many things in this regard, so it's hard to separate the two in those cases.

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I did. And I'm not sure why I turned out different than the rest of my family and left the religious ideology behind but I'm glad that I did

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Puerto Rican Catholic household. I was into it until my late teens.

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My mother was a believer but not a practicing christian, so I only ever ended up in church on Easter with friends' families or as a nasty surprise after a sleepover. Went to a christian private school later cuz I was a lil delinquent, and that honestly did more to sour me on religion than anything else.

She never forced it on me and I am grateful.

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Not particularly. My parents raised my sister and I to go to church every week, but that was about it.

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no and thank the god I don't believe in for that

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Not at all. I was raised by an agnostic & a hardcore atheist.

Yes. I haven't been to church in over a decade outside of certain events and would go back for the social benefit of such but I don't REALLY believe in God. I mostly haven't gone because nervous about being judged and whatnot.

Yes I was raised in a religious household. We went every Sunday and me and all my siblings sang in the church choir. My mom has played the piano/organ for churches ever since before I was born and still does to this day. I can probably count the number of times she's ever missed church in my lifetime on both hands. I stopped going a lot when I was 15 or 16 (which also happened to coincide when I started to lose my faith) and stopped going all together when I got my first job right before I turned 17 and started working on Sundays.

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I was raised culturally Christian without attending church. Believing in Jesus was more of a background thing. As a teenager I became more actively personally religious.

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Balrog0 posted...

I've been to church like 4 times in my life and it sucked every time. I seriously cant imagine wasting so much of my life on it the way some people do

Yeah, majority of the time it's just preaching to the choir. Though I do enjoy it when the Priest/Pastor does give a good homily that is practical advice (even though sometimes it's just common sense) like getting married too quickly is bad for a long term relationship and stuff like that. I say this as a person who is forced to go to Sunday mass because my wife is Roman Catholic and we promise to raise our kid as one (luckily for her my knowledge of the Christian religion is pretty high). I also like the fact that the Priest at our church makes his mass end on the 1 hour mark unlike the Pastor at my old town that can go on for +2 hours.

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Prestoff posted...

Though I do enjoy it when the Priest/Pastor does give a good homily that is practical advice (even though sometimes it's just common sense)

Probably 99% of the good advice that I had ever heard come out of a preachers mouth was basic common sense stuff.

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Twin3Turbo posted...

Probably 99% of the good advice that I had ever heard come out of a preachers mouth was basic common sense stuff.

You're not wrong.

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Religion: People just literally say stuff. Nothing miraculous or magical ever happens. They need money though.

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Yup, still am
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Nope. My dad's not religious, mum I think believes but isn't practicing. I'm not religious in the slightest. I kind of wish I was, it'd be nice to have something like that to cling to when things are bad, but there is just no calling or connection or spirituality or whatever it is with me. I'm too unemotional and need cold hard facts all the time.

Doesn't bother me when people are religious. My wife is a non-practicing Muslim, we have the Quran and those beads in our house, totally fine by me.

I still celebrate Christmas, Easter and Eid, but it's not about religious, more about family gathering.

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