Poll of the Day > Were you raised in a religious household?

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were you?

My grandpa was a church minister. We rarely went to church, though. Saying grace only happened when we ate dinner at my grandparent's house. Religion wasn't really discussed.

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Yes.

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thankfully I was allowed to decide for myself, and wasn't brainwashed
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No. My dad only viewed religion as a status symbol and thought people who bought into it were stupid. He was Southern Baptist for when it was convenient for him.

My mom was generally agnostic, but wanted me to have a choice and bought me several religious books from a variety of religions.

I ended up being agnostic myself.

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Yeah, I had to go to church on sundays as a kid for some periods of time but we missed it plenty and my parents weren't really trying to force it on me.

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No option for me.

My mother was very religious (the sort of person who would kind of hush you for using the Lord's name in vain or anything too blasphemous), but also kind of in to a lot of New Age stuff that would get you burned as a witch (I've often made the joke to her that if she lived 500 years ago, she'd have to burn herself).

My father, meanwhile, was an avowed atheist who generally only ever mentioned God when shitting on Him as a concept, talking about how God was an asshole scientist and we're all just rats in a maze, and He just got off on watching us suffer.

Which I suppose made it kind of inevitable that I'd eventually turn out to be agnostic. Though that's also partly due to my cynicism and misanthropy (which definitely came from my dad), which has sort of led me to conclude that, no matter what the true nature of reality and the universe might be, humans are way too stupid to have managed to stumble over the "correct" answer, either via religion or science. At the moment, we're the metaphorical blind men fumbling around in the dark feeling different parts of an elephant and trying to figure out what the hell it is.
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Somewhat. Not strictly religious. I was sent to Catholic school for kindergarten, but it didn't take long for me to get kicked out.

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No.

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No. I had very limited exposure to religion as a kid. I went to sunday school a few times with a friend and I liked those stupid veggie tales movies in elementary school.

After I stopped going/grew out of those, I honestly thought religion was something like santa claus told to kids to get them to behave. It was a huge wake-up call when I found out in my early teens that people, including adults, take this stuff very seriously.

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not at all. technically we're jewish but by the time i was born nobody was going to temple or anything

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yes

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Nope.. not even close. And thank God lol

My parents brought my sister and me to church every week, but that's it.

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Yes. Mother still says a prayer at dinner and I only go along with it out of respect. Ive never outright said it but im sure she knows I'm not religious.

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my family went to church when I was a kid, but we stopped going around the time I was 11, I think.
we weren't super religious at home, although we did have a prayer before dinner every night.

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Church, mealtime prayer, bible readings at home, random reference to bible verses... I'd say so.

At my dad's house that is. Mom's was never like that.

not really

my parents are both Christian but they only had me go to church a handful of times

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Phantom_Nook posted...

my family went to church when I was a kid, but we stopped going around the time I was 11, I think.
we weren't super religious at home, although we did have a prayer before dinner every night.

About the same. My mother stopped going to church over gay bashing. She started saying after that church was for the self righteous and she didnt need them to practice her religion.

Little did she know I was bi at the time so that made me really happy.

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Yes. My great grandma was very religious. And only stopped going to church when became hard for her to move. My grandma and mom went for a long time. They took me when I was younger. But as I got older and started spending the weekends not at home, I didnt have to go. I did sing in the choir when I was younger, though... And my grandma couldnt go much because she took care of my aunt.

Even though they dont really go to church anymore, they still say their prayers and stuff like that.
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Eh, my dad wasn't religious and never talked about religion. My mom was religious but never talked about religion. She took me to church off and on when I was a kid and I had a couple years in a Christian private school.

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Yes. I was raised as a Buddhist and did the various prayers and whatnot at home but my parents were not strict about it. We did not attend any temples except for special occasions.

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Nope. We celebrated Christmas and Easter, but it was more for family togetherness than anything else. I went to church with a friends family but it was too boring for me.

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I went to church every sunday, every day if I was with my grandparents, went to youth group, bible study.

I've seen all it has to offer and I don't really like what it does to your brain. The only way to live with the fact that you could die at any moment and go to hell is to live life with your ears plugged, to not care if most people you know are going to hell, and to literally never find another human being sexually attractive ever.

You can do these things if you just prevent yourself from thinking about anything too hard. I can live with the magic powers stuff, I follow movies with bad plots better than most, but not the fact that most people you know are just going to be tortured for eternity and you're not doing anything to prevent it.

If I was going to be a religious person I could live with, I would have to be a fucking door knocker or something. So instead I'm an atheist, and I actively looked for reasons to stop believing in god, which wasn't hard.

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It's weird, I could turn from a religious person to an atheist, but now I literally do not have the ability to be religious again.

There were always days I remember where I just thought, "today I'm going to pretend god isn't real and we'll see how that goes", now I can't even pretend god is real.

I guess it doesn't speak much about someone's personality with the things they believe, because whatever they are they really have no power over it.

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I was raised a protestant (Lutheran specifically), which, imo, is probably the most lenient/least crazy out of the major Christian denominations

I am not a Christian anymore but I'm glad my parents weren't religious extremists that allowed me and my siblings to find our own things (like letting us listen to music they think is satanic for example)

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