What was your religious upbringing like, /int/?
>>58783263
Catholic
My parents used to be religious
>>58783263
Missouri Synod Lutheran. We were taught some pretty crazy shit (how can evolution be real if the bible is real, condoms don't work, your non christian friends are going to hell, etc.)
It was """kinda catholic.""" My mom just let me play my gameboy during the sermons and she was only really in it for the community or habit.
Then we moved when I was 12 and never went to church again
>>58783263
Atheist. My dad's a fervid Christianity hater due to his own opbringing. My mum's slightly sceptical towards it, yet relatively neutral.
I feel bad for my grandma. She raised seven Catholic kids, and all of them have forsaken their faith. It hurts her a lot.
>>58783926
hey
>>58783926
same with my family
My grandmother was a staunch catholic and all of her sons are athiest socialists. Bit sad that 1600 years of religion goes down the drain.
>>58784010
w-what
Catholic
Catechism class once a week, church every so often. My mom is pretty sceptic, so I didn't go much to church. The rest of my family is very religious, a cousin of mine considered becoming a priest, he studies Biomedicine now.
None, I've read everything on my own.
>>58783263
My father's side is 200% catholic
My mother's parents are catholic but she is atheist and pretty much anti-religions
>>58784152
>athiest socialists
That's the result of my Catholic upbringing
>>58783263
Muslim. Dad was super strict(sisters had to wear hijab, would scream at them for wearing jeans) now they wear skirts and he gives a shit but doesn't say it
>dad is religious
>none of his kids are
sadly it feels like me being the youngest I have to act religious, at least around him ;__;
>>58784169
I think you heard me, netherlander
My parents are agnostic/apatheist/don't even know. They didn't raise me to be religious at all but they didn't actively raise me to be against religion either. I do have some British family that are religious but I think they're only into it because of culture and tradition and stuff like that.
Born Catholic, converted to Baptism (without really knowing or understanding why) when I was like 4. Went to preschool at the church and of course Sunday school and service.
We were the only Hispanic family in an all white church of about 500 members.
>>58784350
pls no bully
>>58784386
CHI
>>58784347
Can't your dad stone his daughters for disobeying him?
Most of my extended family is atheist but my mom is an evangelist. My dad doesn't care as much but is still moderately religious. I love my mom to death but I'm pretty disappointed in her desu
>>58784449
remember that time the US invaded your country?
Nobody in my family is religious at all. At least back to my grandparents. I guess I just wasn't indoctrinated into it. I see no point in it
Raised in a Methodist church, left and went to more contemporary churches when I was almost out of middle school. in high school I only ever went to a small youth group I liked. Honestly starting to go back to my faith a bit tho
Mom is very religious and Catholic and keeps getting more religious as she gets older.
Both me and my brother are agnostic and don't give a fuck.
>>58784673
>Honestly starting to go back to my faith a bit tho
Tends to happen when life humbles you and you grow out of the edgy teenage phase.
>>58784719
hey Luka
>>58784541
wanna post >american education so bad but ill inform you
that shit only happens in shitholes like Afghanistan, where we live(UAE) is one of the most secular gulf countries, that wouldn't happen without him getting executed for it lol
>>58784745
Thing is I was never that edgy, I never openly went against my religion, I just didn't care for it as much.
Either way, now I'm mainly just trying to figure what sort of church I want to start going to.
>>58783263
Sunni Islam
Born in Algeria parents moved to Arizona instead of France because my father had a visa and worked in states. Religiously we weren't strict. I never eaten pork and never will
>>58784745
I had something kinda similar. I never had a super hardcore edgy phase, but with some stuff I did start using my religious/political views as a front to feel superior to others.
When I was 17 or so I started reading more philosophy, and discovered atheism, utilitarianism, enlightenment thought, etc. I was pretty anti religious at first, but as I got into far left politics I grew somewhat sympathetic towards Christianity.
I got a bit nostalgic for my youth during my first attempt at uni and also wanted more tradition in my life, so I would go to an Episcopal Church every sunday.
The last I went was Christmas Eve. Now that I've moved back in with my parents I feel kinda weird about going since they have their own church. Plus organized religion, even like the Quakers or UUs, didn't turn out to be my cup of tea at the end of the day.
Parents were Muslim immigrants here, Dad came when he was 8. Both my parents are very strict religious but I stopped believing in my teens. Would never tell them as they would both simultaneously die of heart attacks with me being their favourite child.
Wish I didn't have to hide it but I'm 100% sure my mother would kill herself and my father would become a broken shell of a man. You guys don't really understand how brainwashed they are, they genuinely believe that their beautiful beloved son would be burning in hell and think about it every moment.
Maintaining a gf is impossible. Only time I get laid is at party's.
>>58785005
I feel you m8
My great grandmother grew up as a Catholic in India, but converted to Anglicanism when she met my great granddad there. Some of her children are quite religious (one of them is a minister of some weird denomination), others aren't. My grandmother was one of the ones who wasn't and still isn't.
My dad is a borderline fedora wearing atheist. He was christened, but I have no clue how religious his parents or their parents were. I assume he was christened because everyone else at the time was.
I basically grew up in a non-religious house.
>>58785005
Do you mostly date white women? If she's baptised can't you use some people of the book loophole?
>>58784886
>so I would go to an Episcopal Church every sunday.
If I were religious I would go Episcopal. They seem based. I like the community that church provides just not the superstition.
>>58784886
Honestly Episcopalian is what I'm looking into right now. I like the structure of it, as well as the history and tradition. Plus it's neat that such a traditional denomination is actually pretty progressive in terms of social issues.
Interestingly enough the other one I was interested in for a bit was Quakers, because I also like the idea of the personal relationship with god instead of the mentality of having him spoken at you by some guy in a pulpit.
The big issue for me in my late teenage years was my skepticism. I'm very rationally and scientifically minded so its still tough for me to fully accept faith, but honestly it's the one thing that's persisted to be an overwhelming feeling of almost certainty for me, where feeling outweighs my thought. Now that I'm looking back into it all, I'm thinking that if I actually get involved and do some learning about it as well (where I didn't as much before), it might help me
My parents are autistically catholic and so was I until I realized until it was all bullshit
>inb4 stupid hat joke
I was raised in a kardecist family from a jewish center. However I did all catholic cerimonies and there was always some syncretism.
>>58785077
They really are the best. They have an awesome liturgy and tradition without being backwards. You get the organ and old hymns every sunday. The first time I went, last september, the organ was playing Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach.
Our priest was a lesbian (even married to a woman) and didn't even care that I took communion as an agnostic/pantheist.
In coffee hour we always had the best conversations.
>>58785189
I have a Roman Catholic father and a Jewish mother. Things got interesting around December.
having a catholic religion class in primary school
in a secular school
in a secular country
>>58783263
Non existant.
We went to church a few times in middle school, but since adulthood I've only ever been at funerals and weddings, which is the norm over here.
We simply stopped treating it as a religion and more like tradition.
>>58785181
You really feel like you're taking part in something with deep roots there. They're some of the nicest people you can meet at any church.
I went to a quaker church for a while in high school. I personally prefer the Episcopal Church (and I'm not even a theist), the sermons rarely spoon feed what you should think, they're usually more thought provoking than question answering.
The current presiding bishop is bro-tier as hell, too.
>>58785260
Are you from New York?
>>58785397
It helps that my brother started going to an Episcopal church a while back too. I definitely think I'm gonna seek one out as soon as I move and get settled in for my new job in a couple months
I had a children's illustrated bible that my parents read to me occasionally, turns out they were both atheist all along and thought I should make up my own mind.
Once I learned Angel's didn't have fiery demon-smiting swords like in HoMM3 I lost interest.
>>58785433
Montana.
My father is originally from DC. My mother is from a part of Montana that has a modest Jewish population.
