Poll of the Day > Were you raised religious?

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yeh

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No. My dad is a devout atheist and my mom briefly entertained the idea of going to church as a way to expand her social circle but that passed as quickly as a fart

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darcandkharg31 posted...

yeh

so you still are very religious?

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DoubleOSnake posted...

so you still are very religious?

yeh

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Only moderately so. My folks tried putting me in a catholic school when I was around 5. It did not work out very well.

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Not really

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Yes. Got dragged to church every weekend for certain periods of my childhood.

No I am not still religious, if anything it pushed me away from being religious.

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No. Out of all my family that I know my late nan from my dads side and my late granddads late wife was religious. On that note there was a point I could have been brought up my my granddad and his wife due to reasons. As she was a Jehovah's Witnesses things could have worked out very differently. I'm a atheist but do miss my conversations with her.

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thankfully I was allowed to chose, instead of being brainwashed.
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Yes.
Religion is a joke for weak minded people who cannot find their own reason to cope.

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No. Although like many families, the farther back you go, the more religious people tend to be.

Well, I was raised going to church when I was in 3rd grade, but it closed a while after that. I did go back to church in like 2013 and still attend. I consider myself a Christian, though.

Somewhat

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Yep, in my adult life I went away from religion though, went atheist for a bit would consider myself a deist now. I don't believe in God the same way most religious people do though, I think there is something out there that could be considered God but I don't think it cares about us or gave us a purpose. With that being said I think there are really good parts of religion (the story of the good Samaritan is a good example) but it just gets muddied by extremists and people that want to take it literally.

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Off and on.

My stepmom was seventh day advenist which per her religion I was doomed to hell, do not past go do not collect $200 because I at a pepperoni pizza and watched tv on a saturday. I said why would I join a religion that gives no forgiveness for something most other religions allow

Then when I was 12 my dad joined essentially what was a cult. It was based on pentacostal but boy they got weird. I didn't fit in because I wouldn'td do the talk in tongues or faint from prayer. Also she kept preaching hard that the rapture was gonna take place before she died...........well I ll let you figure how that worked out.

After that nothing and luckily I moved out long before he started his new dopemine detox. Where my sis baa nd mom are not allowed to have there phones while at home, no tv, no games, no music, nothing that brings pleasure as that is a gateway to depression and anger.

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Kind of, despite the fact the my parents are barely religious at all now.

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No. We might have gone a few times when I was very small but the memory us very vague. I was maybe 3-4? Religion wasn't talked about in our house. No family prayers or grace, even on holiday meals.

Still, I have become a Christian but I don't attend church and my ideas probably don't fit any organized group.

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for the most part no, but believing in christianity was kind of like an unspoken commitment that i never signed up on

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Nope not at all.

The correct term is "raised proper".

Half and half. My father briefly insisted we try out religion for a while. We didn't like it much.

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No. I went to church a couple times with a friends family to see what it was like, but my family never did. We celebrate Christmas and Easter on the family side instead of religious side.

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Yes. When I was 13 I finally came out as an atheist and refused to go to church ever again even after threats of extortion and punishment from my mother.
Nowadays shes an atheist as well.

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I pretty much lost sleep at night because they scared me with that hell shit. I kept coming up with mathematic models on what percentage of people went to hell, and determined that nearly everyone would, because nearly everyone knows touching yourself is a mortal sin, and everyone does it, and there's only a short window of time, 10% at best, when even the most devout people aren't "cursed" with mortal sin.

Then people tell me, "You had a bad experience, it's a shame", but that was the intended experience. I was supposed to use religion as a tool to prevent myself from going to hell and instead become an immortal god that would never die. Some people use it as an imaginary friend, and that's nice, but that also reinforces the idea that people should focus on the happy parts of their life instead of their impending doom.

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Yes. Got dragged to church every weekend for certain periods of my childhood.

No I am not still religious, if anything it pushed me away from being religious.

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Hey religious people, you know you can't commit a mortal sin without knowing it's a mortal sin, right? Hopefully no one tells you something you do often is a mortal sin. Masturbation is a mortal sin.

I've just damned you. Enjoy.

You can either
A) Tell an old man every week that you masturbated again (very traumatic)
B) Not masturbate (not healthy)
C) Tell an old man every couple months that you masturbated again (bearing a 95% mortal sin downtime, a 95% chance of going to hell)
D) Ignore what I just said and go to hell, because of the rules I just mentioned.
E) Stop believing in stupid shit and plaguing society with your fundamentalist laws

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Well we went to Sunday school every Sunday till I moved to London, but we were never raised religious by my actual parents.

Dont think either of my parents have ever even mentioned god or even hinted that they hold god in any kind of high esteem, let alone believe in him full stop.

I think they have the same opinion I do where church and Sunday school are more for sense of community and a cultural thing rather than to strictly follow the religion.

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Yes. I was forced to go to church until I was 14. I stopped going as soon as my mom stopped making me.


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No.

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Yeah. Though, I wasn't big on church after I stopped being in the choir. I wanted to relax on my Sundays. And eventually, I was able to. But recently, a few of my cousins became super religious lately. I'm not sure what happened since it was after I left for the Air Force...
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I sort of was. I used to go to church and sunday school off and on when I was growing up. My parents tended to stop going when I was around age 9 or 10. as I got older I was agnostic then became atheist in my 20s. I also married someone who was very religious and dragged me to church every sunday for years. Eventually she stopped and I'm surprised how quickly she became atheist when she actually looked into how science and evolution and carbon dating actually works.

My father says he believes yet if a topic turns religious he can grow tired of it. He also didn't go to church until my mom dragged him off an on. He also never seems to pray unless someone asks him to.

One of my kids says he believes in god a bit although my wife and I are atheist. We don't push him towards the imaginary man or away from it we let him form his own discisions. he knows my and my wife's disbelieve in the magical sky daddy.

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Household was atheist in the sense that there was a total indifference to religion. I was never taught to believe a certain thing, I was never taught not to believe a certain thing. That said I grew up in a deeply religious community so I picked up and held a lot of religious views until I figured out that it was all a bunch of bullshit.

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At some point my mom became a born-again Christian. I question the sincerity of it, I think she just likes being part of the church and would gladly venerate FSM all other things being equal.

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no, i became religious in my adult life

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No, but i went to a church primary school.

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Not really. My grandparents took me to church when I was a little kid. My mom put me in a Christian school for a couple years before middle school. I wasn't "home schooled" or anything, if you get my meaning. I.e., I wasn't forcefully indoctrinated.

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Very. Baptist then evangelical. Bible school every week in addition to church+sunday school and youth group Wednesday.

Atheist now.

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No.

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I chose eh because while we occasionally went to church and I did go to vacation bible school every year until I was a teen, neither of my parents took it all that seriously.

I am glad they didn't. I know several people who grew up in super religious households and almost all of them are atheist now.

Yellow posted...

Hey religious people, you know you can't commit a mortal sin without knowing it's a mortal sin, right? Hopefully no one tells you something you do often is a mortal sin. Masturbation is a mortal sin.

I've just damned you. Enjoy.

You can either
A) Tell an old man every week that you masturbated again (very traumatic)
B) Not masturbate (not healthy)
C) Tell an old man every couple months that you masturbated again (bearing a 95% mortal sin downtime, a 95% chance of going to hell)
D) Ignore what I just said and go to hell, because of the rules I just mentioned.
E) Stop believing in stupid shit and plaguing society with your fundamentalist laws

Well according to wiki, so is pre-marital sex, abortion, and contraception. This is all Catholic dogma, though.


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I am essentially a 4th generation atheist/agnostic. Well, 4th generation as far as I know, it is possible my great great grandfather was also one.

I have family members who are more religious, but it was never a thing with my parents when they were married (my mom joined a church years after they divorced).

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No. My mom occasionally says "I hope that if there's a God that blah blah blah", so I feel she has religious underpinnings, but it seems to stem from some form of existential anxiety, and never resulted in attending church.

They put me in a Veggie Tales Church camp when I was 7 for some reason, and I left after two days. I can't perfectly recall, but I think I got upset when they told me that dinosaur bones weren't 64 million years old.

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Grew up in a catholic household. My parents weren't very religious, but my grandparents have always been strong in their faith.