my perants are non practicing roman catholics, but they have raised me so that i can make my own views on god and how to live my life
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Well, my parents stopped being religious in the 1970's, like most people in this part of the Netherlands. So yeah, I was raised a nontheist and all my friends except one are atheists as well. Still (and probably because of that) I generally have no problem with religion.
Other.
More specifically, I grew up with a pair of aethiest parents who tried not to influence my beliefs. They hardly spoke about religion, but I did go to a Christian school where we did prayers before meals and in assembly, and heard passages form the Bible in our lessons. I think I believed in God until I was about five or six, then I stopped believing in everything; no Santa, Easter Bunny, Toothfairy, or God. They all seemed ridiculous to me, even then.
Admittedly, the school may have gone wrong by teaching the 'Bible Stories' often in the same slots we'd heard stories about Humpty-Dumpty.
More specifically, I grew up with a pair of aethiest parents who tried not to influence my beliefs. They hardly spoke about religion, but I did go to a Christian school where we did prayers before meals and in assembly, and heard passages form the Bible in our lessons. I think I believed in God until I was about five or six, then I stopped believing in everything; no Santa, Easter Bunny, Toothfairy, or God. They all seemed ridiculous to me, even then.
Admittedly, the school may have gone wrong by teaching the 'Bible Stories' often in the same slots we'd heard stories about Humpty-Dumpty.
My mother is a catholic, but not a serious one, she only goes to mass at Christmas and Easter.My farther isnt religious. However my mother made sure me and my brothers did communium and confirmation. However, she is tolerant of my athiest beliefs.
When i was about 8 and doing my first communium (sp?) it made me think about Christianity, and i decided that there was no evidence to say God existed in the first place. The only evidence was from the Bible, but i thought it was a bit odd that God was prancing all over planet Earth- from making manna rain down from the sky, burning bushes, the virgin birth and all and nowadays, nothing happens. Further more, the various miracles all seemed a bit far fetched to me- and the only thing to back them up is the Bible. So i decided God probably did not exist. Thats what i decided when i was around eight.
Now, ten years later my reasons are more sophicated, but that is how and why i became an atheist.
When i was about 8 and doing my first communium (sp?) it made me think about Christianity, and i decided that there was no evidence to say God existed in the first place. The only evidence was from the Bible, but i thought it was a bit odd that God was prancing all over planet Earth- from making manna rain down from the sky, burning bushes, the virgin birth and all and nowadays, nothing happens. Further more, the various miracles all seemed a bit far fetched to me- and the only thing to back them up is the Bible. So i decided God probably did not exist. Thats what i decided when i was around eight.
Now, ten years later my reasons are more sophicated, but that is how and why i became an atheist.
I'm an agnostic who was raised as a Roman Catholic by my mother. My father isn't religious. I'm open to the idea of God but, for me, there isn't enough evidence to warrant me devoting my life to religion, however I refuse to deny a God as I believe there isn't enough evidence that way either.
I live by enjoying the world as it is, that way if there is a God I am enjoying His creation, which is a form of thanks. If there isn't, I'm enjoying life as it is. I lose nothing either way.
I live by enjoying the world as it is, that way if there is a God I am enjoying His creation, which is a form of thanks. If there isn't, I'm enjoying life as it is. I lose nothing either way.
My mother was pretty open-minded (or, to put it more accurately, she went through a whole heap of different phases, trying to find meaning, like a lot of people do... a lot of new age stuff, mainly).
As a child I joined her in a lot of those beliefs, but I grew up to be a strong atheist through my own logical process. I can't deny, of course, that had I been raised differently I might have come to vastly different conclusions. But it goes without saying that had I been raised a Christian/Jew/Muslim/Hindu/whatever, the person I am now thinks the person I might have been would have been sadly misguided.
As a child I joined her in a lot of those beliefs, but I grew up to be a strong atheist through my own logical process. I can't deny, of course, that had I been raised differently I might have come to vastly different conclusions. But it goes without saying that had I been raised a Christian/Jew/Muslim/Hindu/whatever, the person I am now thinks the person I might have been would have been sadly misguided.
My parents aren't religious, but then they're not Atheist either. I just chose not to believe. My mums' mum on the other hand(who lives in Barbados thank *insert deity here*)is Christian through and through, whenver we go over there every two years or so I never hear the end of it from her lol.
My parents raised me with nothing, no views whatsoever. My grandma is pretty religious, and I joined her to church a couple of times because I wanted to see what it was. I also wanted to join an evangelical youth club for a few years, because some friends were on that, it was definatly good fun. But I still never became religious, I just never felt the need to explain things with magic. But I'm not really an atheist either, because I also don't feel the need to deny the existance of any supreme being. Afterall, I don't possess any knowledge, no one does, and my opinion is completely irrelivant. So why would I bother with one? I guess you can call me a "notcare-ist" or something.
I'll go with 'other'. My nan (mum's side) was a particularly devout Christian who often felt the need to go on about it, while my mum believes and occasionally goes to church but doesn't care what anyone else does or believes. All of my dad's side of the family are atheist.
I was christened and went to church and Sunday School as a child, at my nan's insistence. Can't remember why I stopped going so I can only assume that it was when we moved away, I was about 8 at the time. We talked about the whole religion and choice thing as I grew up, but over time I realised it wasn't for me.
So, there we go - no real bad experiences with religious nutjobs to put me off, I'm simply unable to believe in it.
I was christened and went to church and Sunday School as a child, at my nan's insistence. Can't remember why I stopped going so I can only assume that it was when we moved away, I was about 8 at the time. We talked about the whole religion and choice thing as I grew up, but over time I realised it wasn't for me.
So, there we go - no real bad experiences with religious nutjobs to put me off, I'm simply unable to believe in it.
I grew up with religious family members, and went to church frequently until I was 9 or 10, when I was traumatized by a play of sorts they were putting on. I pretty much never went after that until recently. I myself am an agnostic, I can't bring myself to believe that there's someone who, quite literally, has all the power in the universe, and he just sits around and does nothing with it. By contrast, I find it hard to believe that everything we see here is the result of nothing exploding into nothing, which caused a chain reaction in the nothing which created us.
My parents are supposed to be Christians, but we never go to church and I doubt they would mind if instead of being an atheist, I was Jewish, a Buddhist or a Wiccan.
My family never really discussed it.
I think my parents believe in a God, as well as my brother, but are in no way religious, and certainly not Christian. I guess you could call them theists.
In fact, the only other person in my family that is as atheist as I am (for want of a better phrase), is my grandmother!
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I think my parents believe in a God, as well as my brother, but are in no way religious, and certainly not Christian. I guess you could call them theists.
In fact, the only other person in my family that is as atheist as I am (for want of a better phrase), is my grandmother!
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This person speaks the truth.Glefistus said:
I was raised by a Jew and a Catholic, though neither was *that* religious (despite my mum going to a Convent school). Instead of becoming a hilarious sitcom, entitled 'Oh my God it's a Jew, let's burn the heretic bastard', I turned out a staunch antitheist, which is a pretty far cry from either.