What organized religion were you brought up with? [Archive]

Comrade_XRD

30th March 2009, 21:25

Seems like a lot of you guys didn't have a religion shoved down your throat when you were young. Count your lucky stars, its the worst psychological terror, you could ever experience as a child. I was brought up a Protestant and sent to Catholic school. Imagine two different ways of seeing Jesus, and being taught by your teacher that your mom is wrong, and vise versa.

synthesis

31st March 2009, 02:30

I'm certainly not the first person to try to see the socialist potential in the religion I was brought up with, but I used to go to a UU church as a child... probably the only reason it's a poll option.

Anyways, here are their "Seven Principles":

The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

It bored the shit out of me as a kid, but now I feel lucky as fuck that I didn't have to go to Pentecostal church or some shit like that.

Jazzratt

31st March 2009, 02:39

Do you mean "what organised religion did/do your family belong to?" (none) or "What religions were important where you grew up?" (fluctuates between catholiscism, christianity (other)- anglican and islam depending on where I lived)?

MarxSchmarx

31st March 2009, 05:13

My parents are very secular and are both basically atheists although my mother claims to be a "spiritual person".

But we went to a local protestant church for services every now and then, and on Christmas and Easter. All my siblings and I went to nursery school and kindergarten at the school affiliated with the church. Ironically the first text I learned to read was the New Testament. I think it had more to do ultimately with community and tradition than faith.

LOLseph Stalin

31st March 2009, 06:15

I voted none. I was never forced to pick up any specific religion as my family was never really religious. In fact, my mom always encouraged me and my siblings to go out and experience religion whenever we got the chance so we could use our own judgement about whether to follow it or not...

ÑóẊîöŉ

31st March 2009, 08:14

ZeroNowhere

31st March 2009, 08:45

Hinduism, though my family isn't especially religious any more.

Sasha

31st March 2009, 16:38

none, although there where heavy influences from both catholicism (dad's side) and espacily judeaism (mom's)

#FF0000

1st April 2009, 15:25

My mom pushed me and my little brother through the whole Catholic thing for awhile, up until my confirmation. I get the feeling it was more about tradition than anything else, with my father being agnostic and my mother just not going to church anymore.

I did get plenty of cash bux on my confirmation, though. Final verdict: Worth it aside from the years and years of catholic guilt and the feeling of utter loneliness when I was 8 and I wondered why God let the other kids pick on me.

mykittyhasaboner

1st April 2009, 15:53

None. I've never been religious, everyone else in my "family" is atheist.

Bright Banana Beard

3rd April 2009, 06:31

Mormon, I select other because it does have different from Christianity.

Ceaserian Øgly

3rd April 2009, 07:30

Protestantism. My mum was a priest assistant who sent me to a Christian kindergarten, and later on married a priest. I was taught that my atheist dad was going to hell, and that IHV is almighty, all-knowing and pure good, and would serve all my spiritual needs if I just prayed. This had about the same effect on me as it had on Rorschach; "Why does IHV hate me?"

Also, it led to a difficult period when I reached the pretty much inevitable, realising that I was brought up with a lie.

3rd April 2009, 07:41

Judaism..which is missing.

RHIZOMES

3rd April 2009, 08:47

Fundamentalist born-again evangelical Christianity although my mother converted to Catholicism when I was ten (Although I was still being sent to evangelical churches and sunday schools, weird).

RedAnarchist

3rd April 2009, 11:08

I was baptised as an Anglican, to an Anglican mother and Catholic father, although neither was particularly religious. We were an average Anglican family that only went tom church for weddings and funerals - pretty much Anglican in name only.

JFMLenin

12th April 2009, 09:29

I was brought up in a family that was part fundamentalist Christian and part Episcopalian, I have since converted to Islam.

Raúl Duke

12th April 2009, 23:04

I was brought up amongst protestants...although I was sent to a catholic elementary school for some time and was baptised catholic...

I no longer practice religion, partly because later on I did go to a religious middle school and in my spare time during bible/religion class I actually spent it reading the bible and found things that eventually, when I mulled it over my head over a few years, were just contradictory/unbelievable/inhumane and this and other things lead me to just dump religion.

Ultra_Cheese

29th April 2009, 03:42

I did get plenty of cash bux on my confirmation, though. Final verdict: Worth it aside from the years and years of catholic guilt and the feeling of utter loneliness when I was 8 and I wondered why God let the other kids pick on me.
I escaped my confirmation when my family moved to the south and they weren't able to find a Catholic church. I had already gone through seven and a half years of CCD, so all I really missed was the money I would have been given for my confirmation. I didn't come out of the whole thing empty handed though; when I made my first communion, my parents gave me a Game Boy Color.

More Fire for the People

29th April 2009, 03:58

I'm certainly not the first person to try to see the socialist potential in the religion I was brought up with, but I used to go to a UU church as a child... probably the only reason it's a poll option.

Anyways, here are their "Seven Principles":

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It bored the shit out of me as a kid, but now I feel lucky as fuck that I didn't have to go to Pentecostal church or some shit like that.
I was raised in one.

Sentinel

29th April 2009, 19:34

Militant atheism. :)

Random Precision

1st May 2009, 18:36

I was raised Catholic. I went to Mass every Sunday until my parents split up in my freshman year of high school. After that happened my father became intensely religious and even dragged me to the Latin Mass at the Pius X Society church a few times, but soon enough he stopped going when our priest shot his attempts to have AA meetings in the Church's basement evicted. As for my mom, she sort of became a Christmas-and-Easter Catholic and didn't drag us off to church even on those days.

I tried the religion thing during middle school into my first year of high school. While I got close to it sometimes, I always had a lot of trouble suspending my disbelief. So I came out of it a few months after my parents split up. I was taking a walk one day and the realization suddenly came to me that the Christian religion didn't make any sense considering what had happened to me. I tried to ask my youth group instructor/theology teacher about it, but I wasn't nearly satisfied by his answers.

Bud Struggle

1st May 2009, 21:50

Catholic. I came from a very serious working class (dad was in the rubber workers union) first generation Polish (both my parents emergrated from Poland in the 30s) family. We lived in Connecticut in a Polish ghetto centering around the Polish Catholic church. I went to the Catholic grammar school of the parish.

I later went to a Catholic HS and then AB Georgetown (Catholic) and MA Fordham (Catholic.) I married a good Catholic woman (from pagan Yale :( and MBA even more pagan NYU) and now we are raising two good Catholic kids. I've been in all kinds of Catholic associations and contribute to Catholic Charities.

While our Polishness has decreased over the years, our Catholicness hasn't. Both my daughters are Altar servers and are rather devout in that respect. We go to Mass every Sunday and try to go daily during Lent. We go to Mass on Holy days of Obligation and once a week or so say the Rosary together. We give 1/10th of our income to the church.

Our faith in God and in the Chruch has served us well over the years. We are all pretty happy being Catholic.

God has been good to us.

(Yea I know, not the most Commie PC post on the thread. :rolleyes: But it's the way I see it. )

Comrade Anarchist

3rd May 2009, 01:56

was brought up protestant till about 13 when i started thinking

Il Medico

19th May 2009, 01:55

Catholic, still am. Please don't attack the theist! I am a commie too!

bellyscratch

19th May 2009, 11:44

One thing I do thank my parents for is not christening me :D Although my local primary school as Church of England, so I did have some religious beliefs forced on me as a kid

Verix

21st May 2009, 06:12

It bored the shit out of me as a kid, but now I feel lucky as fuck that I didn't have to go to Pentecostal church or some shit like that.

Pentecostal churchs are fucking bat shit crazy! my sister went to one one time and she said people were doing back flips over the pews and running in cirlcles screaming and there was a guy who would go around and touch people on the forehead and the would fall to the ground and act like they were having a seizere.

Leaf

21st May 2009, 06:39

was brought up protestant till about 13 when i started thinking

Exactly the same as me.

JohnnyC

21st May 2009, 08:18

My father was/is member of anthroposophical society.That's some christian sect based on teachings of some mystic Rudolf Steiner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthroposophy
My mother is an orthodox christian.
Fortunately, because of the influence of my uncle, who was always a hardcore materialist, I rejected mysticism and spirituality completely when I was around 6. :D
Since then, I haven't changed my opinion on religions, of course.

Revy

23rd May 2009, 00:31

Protestant Christian, went only to Methodist churches so I guess Methodist, but hell if I knew anything about Methodism, lol.

Rusty Shackleford

23rd May 2009, 00:37

thankfully none. i did dabble in Christianity for a while on my own. i also considered Buddhism. but i feel none of it works for me, the only benefit i see from theism is the mental peace of mind one can get form it. out of the MANY MANY drawbacks

Rusty Shackleford

23rd May 2009, 00:52

I think it had more to do ultimately with community and tradition than faith.

first off sorry for the double post. i just found this.

i had a discussion with one of my friends (who is a christian) and i stated my points clearly and we talked about it and such. she invited me to at least check out the church she attends. so a month and a half later i decided to attend a service. the sense of community was awesome. I will admit, i was almost terrified when they all said 'amen' or 'in jesus name' and such together in the most cultish and monotone way.

I also kept my mouth shut. i didnt want to be torn to pieces haha. im glad i went though to see the sense of community, now only if there were things like this, but for other reasons that had nothing to do with any from of theism.

MolotovCocktail988

23rd May 2009, 16:01

Born again, evangelical, "non-denominational" christianity. It sucks.

MolotovCocktail988

23rd May 2009, 16:09

Pentecostal churchs are fucking bat shit crazy! my sister went to one one time and she said people were doing back flips over the pews and running in cirlcles screaming and there was a guy who would go around and touch people on the forehead and the would fall to the ground and act like they were having a seizere.

Down in Kentucky there is a LOT of churches. So I know alot about them.

"people were doing back flips over the pews and running in cirlcles screaming" Its called Holy Rolling. Basically people think that god is making them do it.

"there was a guy who would go around and touch people on the forehead and the would fall to the ground and act like they were having a seizere"

Its called faith healing. They think that by doing that the "demons" would leave their body.

Red Saxon

25th May 2009, 20:28

Baptist Christianity, I still hold to my faith as a guide for morals.
But I don't believe the church should hold as much power over people as it has in the past.

Il Medico

25th May 2009, 22:11

Baptist Christianity, I still hold to my faith as a guide for morals.
But I don't believe the church should hold as much power over people as it has in the past.
Amen!:D
However, I have noticed that a lot of people here really belittle anyone with a religious belief. I find it hard to understand why they feel the need to attack those who believe in something different from what they do. Their main argument is "how can you believe in some thing that you can't prove?". I believe in communism, I believe that it will eventually be implemented correctly there is no proof of this, yet we believe it. Why should it be any different with belief in a God? Plus, belief is not needed if it can be proven. So if you could prove that there is a God, there would be no more belief and disbelief, only acceptance and denial.