Quick poll for Atheists and Agnostics

[Xshayathiya]

Just out of slight curiosity, of which religion were your parents/grand parents/ancestors? As in, what religion would you have been if you had followed your family?

I'm sorry if the 'Other' choice is too general, I'm just trying to get some numbers.

 

[garric]

My parents were atheists and then converted to Eastern Orthodoxy after the fall of the Soviet Union. I am an atheist however, but I respect the Christian religion.

 

[Pyrite]

My parents raised me catholic.

 

[GoldEagle]

As I made present in my "Coming out of the Christian Closet" Thread, I used to be Catholic, then Evangelical Christian, and now a Soft Agnostic.

 

[pboily]

Born and raised atheist. Also raised to like cauliflowers, which to my mind is as relevant as the latter.

As an aside, it would be very surprising if any of my siblings and/or their kids ever ended up religious or disliking cauliflower.

 

[shadow2k]

Mom was Jewish, dad was Christian. I can't pick both though, so I settled for Jew. I like Jews better, they don't knock on your door at 8am trying to convert you.

 

[Hotpoint]

Raised churchgoing Catholic (although my father was an atheist).

 

[Yoda Power]

Born and raised atheist, by parents who were also born and raised atheist.

 

[Sidhe]

Born and raised an atheist, turned to Christianity of my own accord with little or no influence, grew up and turned away from it, as a young child a believer, as a prepubescant a true believer, as a teenager, who learnt about the damage religion has and could do, a non believer, why believe in something that you have logically seen causes so much ill.

You wake up and then you despair, then you turn against religion, and then you find science, it has a brutal sort of comfort. But of course you are not allowed to make a decision against belief as a teenager, you have to be wrong because your beliefs are too much pointed towards a lack of wisdom, jshyah! right, and now and when I went to turn back to religion at twenty, and then when I forsook it, my entire beliefs are moribund because you've decided I have no ability to judge where I come from and what I believe, so if I turn back to religion again as I might, that also is a lack of understanding, and then when I turn against it again, Jesus H corbet it's always you can't quite get it, not you can just come to your own beliefs, everything you do is childish and pointless until you get the message. Believe or you are wrong and they wonder why so many people turn away, because you are just worng and that's just the b all and end all. Can I not find my way by myself and if I don't I'm going to hell, Shazbut! Well whatever you go play your mind games with someone who cares, because your wasting your time with me. Or are you

Just agnostic and it brings me the most hapiness and comfort I've ever known.

 

[Corlindale]

Born and raised agnostic, parents agnostic, grandparents and upwards Christian, I guess. Became somewhat Christian in my childhood, even said a prayer or two on occasion and went to church a few times, slightly more than the mandatory amount of times for getting my confirmation(that priest didn't trust us youngsters much, it seems). Then I started High School, and there I started to become familiar with philosophy for the first time, reading many of the criticists of religion, and this probably played a large part in leading me to my current position of agnostic leaning on atheist.

 

[VoodooAce]

I voted Christian, but really none of the answers apply to me the way the question is worded in the poll. You clarified in the OP, so that's why I answered. I was never 'Christian', but there are some in my family that are. My mother would consider herself to be Christian, but she never practiced at all. Pops is agnostic, but we never talked religion at all until I was older.

 

[Perfection]

Daddy = agnostic
Mommy = Lutheran

 

[sysyphus]

Was nominally christian, but we never practised.

 

[warpus]

I was raised Roman Catholic and was technically Roman Catholic until 15 or so..

 

[Kozmos]

They tried to brainwash me a roman catholic, but they failed miserably.

 

[North King]

Well... They were both from Christian families, and at least one of them is pretty certainly Christian, but they simply never raised me in a religion, so I decided for myself. Or rather, didn't decide (agnostic).

So I would say, both Christian.

 

[Godwynn]

Christian - Catholic

 

[YNCS]

I was raised as a Catholic and I have a Jewish mother. That gives me twice the guilt of normal people.

 

[Babbler]

paternal grandfather: don't know
paternal grandmother: super Catholic
maternal grandfather: priest in a Catholic brake away church.
maternal grandmother: organist at said breakaway church.

mother: irreligious
father: lapped Catholic, agnostic

me: atheist/agnostic

 

[History_Buff]

Was raised Catholic. But I disagree with a good deal of the teaching of the Roman Catholic chuch, and agree with some other stuff. I believe there is a God, and I have well established beliefs. I do not subscribe to any major religion, but I wouldn't count myself an Athiest.