Quick poll for Atheists and Agnostics

[Cuivienen]

Technically Presbyterian Christian, but we only went to church on Christmas Eve and Easter. My parents have since converted to Unitarian Universalism.

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

My parents were and are very catholic.

 

[mrtn]

Atheist parents.

 

[adog]

Another good catholic boy here. I was even an altar boy for about 4 years. Most people I know my age that were raised catholic are no longer practicing.

 

[Spartan117]

well i attended confirmation classes and once in a while i forced to go to churh but i have been agnostic for as long as i could remember before i became "smart" just kidding

by the way i am atheist

 

[GenMarshall]

Realy cant vote in this because I was baptised into the Catholic Church, fell out of the church at age six and been raised with no religion became an agnostic and then came back to the Church just recently .

 

[silver 2039]

Why haven't you included Hinduisim or Buddhisim in the poll?

My family is Hindu.

 

[CaptainF]

Mummy is a deist, I think.

Daddy is an agnostic

I'm somewhat of an ignostic.

 

[Xshayathiya]

thanks for the responses so far.

Why haven't you included Hinduisim or Buddhisim in the poll?

My family is Hindu.

like i said in OP, sorry if 'Other' is too general, I just wanted to get a quick set of numbers.

 

[Ramius75]

My dad is a "Taoist" its actually a mixed of Ancestor worshipping, buddhism and taoist. My mother is a "dont care about it". While she raise as a "taoist" also, she almost never practice it...

I grew up 1st as a "taoist" influence by my grandmother where she brought me to many temples to pray for good health and studies. But when i reach high school, im more influence by Confucism and Buddhism and other religion. ended up choosing to be agnostic and eventually atheist when i analsysed throught all the theories

 

[aneeshm]

Hinduism allows its follower to be an agnostic , so I'm an agnostic but I'm still a Hindu . So I cannot vote on this poll .

 

[aneeshm]

Why haven't you included Hinduisim or Buddhisim in the poll?

My family is Hindu.

You can be an atheist and still be a Hindu . All it needs is that you have a set of cultural values . As you do have those values ( or rather , you will come to realise that you have such a set of values ) , you come under the Hindu category . Funny , isn't it ?

 

[CurtSibling]

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.

Nice try.

Assuming we are all religious from the get go.

I will draw a line under the fact that I was born atheist.

The problem was that some old man in a gown tried to dip my
head in water and add my to his corrupted theological empire.

Atheism is the natural state for a human...And a good state.

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[Heretic_Cata]

I was an atheist, before that i was Christian Orthodox, now i am a heretic (in the broadest sense possible) . My dad probably doesn't care, and my mom is Orthodox.

 

[Global Nexus]

I wasn't raised anything. Religion was pretty well a nonexistent influence in my life, and my grandparents [the ones who raised me] are Christian, if not overly devout. The only exposure I got was from the occassional "God" and "Devil" reference, which I didn't particularly understand until I was about 13 or so.

I guess you could say I was raised atheistically, but it's actually more of an apatheistic thing, I think.

 

[Grisu]

both parents are non-practicing protestant christians

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Of course the poll will show more christians then the rest. Mostly because there are more ex-/christians on the forum.
But also because many ppl turn away from christianity. I've spent some time defending religions, and christianity is the hardest to defend. They all have some weak spots. Catholicism has more than the others. Orthodoxism is somewhat saved by the "So WTH is your problem ?", "We just don't give a damn" and the "You actually belive that ? I was joking." atitudes, and the saftey in numbers. Protestantism: the more laidback divisions are the easiest (out of all christian denominations) to defend, the stauncher ones are a lot harder though.
Islam is very easy to defend though, especially in a deist-atheist confrontation. This one never requires as much effort as christianity.
Judaism OTOH has a preety big weak spot, but because jews are also a nationality the weakness is preety irelevant.
Buddhism is not very hard to defend either. Hinayana for the agnostics&atheists and Mahayana for the deists. They do have one weak spot as well, but it's easily brainwashable.

Oh yea, and hinduism - the same as judaism.

 

[GenMarshall]

Of course the poll will show more christians then the rest. Mostly because there are more ex-/christians on the forum.
But also because many ppl turn away from christianity. I've spent some time defending religions, and christianity is the hardest to defend. They all have some weak spots. Catholicism has more than the others.

Right now I am a Christian Catholic and I dont see myself leaving my faith. I am chosing to stick with Catholicism and dont care if any atheists say "its hard to defend and contains weak spots", I just have that Orthodox mindset ("So willy the fish is your problem ?", and "We just don't give a damn" that H_C presented for the Orthodoxy Response) when confronted by an atheist with criticisms of my faith as well as defend the best I can on my faith using both scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Why I took this "Orthodoxy Mindset of 'So Where the Fudge is your problem? and We just don't give a damn'" it was after being attacked and criticised on my faith that slowly gradualy gave me a thicker skin to resist such attacks on my faith.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Right now I am a Christian Catholic and I dont see myself leaving my faith. I am chosing to stick with Catholicism and dont care if any atheists say "its hard to defend and contains weak spots".

I said hard to defend, not impossible to defend.

Also, i should mention that the weak spots that i am reffering to (of all the religions) are rarely the true cause of ppl turning into atheists. The reasons for that are more psychological than anything else ... the reason why more christians tend to turn to atheism is because purely coincidental. It could have been any other religion in it's place.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I just have that Orthodox mindset ("So willy the fish is your problem ?", and "We just don't give a damn" that H_C presented for the Orthodoxy Response) when confronted by an atheist with criticisms of my faith as well as defend the best I can on my faith using both scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Why I took this "Orthodoxy Mindset of 'So Where the Fudge is your problem? and We just don't give a damn'" it was after being attacked and criticised on my faith that slowly gradualy gave me a thicker skin to resist such attacks on my faith.

Hehe, that's very good.