What is your birth religion and current religious status?

My parents are Christian, but we never went to church and religion was never really an issue. Currently, I draw from a lot of Eastern influences (Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, etc), but mostly I'm just agnostic (and a bit apathetic).

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

Well, yeah - but as I have no investment in their views, I don't mind so much.

Whereas ill-informed atheists just make life difficult for the more intellectually rigorous of us.

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I do have an investment in their views. This is due to the fact that I am a Christian, and, as has been brought out in this thread, some ill-informed people calling themselves "Christians" can make us all look bad!
Ill-informed atheists don't bother me a bit. I know that, once they decide to become informed, they will investigate and see that the Bible really is true. The ones who refuse to investigate are the only ill-informed ones.

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Originally Posted by Lynne Fees

I know that, once they decide to become informed, they will investigate and see that the Bible really is true.

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I hate to disappoint you, but it didn't work for me, and I know the Bible better than most Christians.

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

I hate to disappoint you, but it didn't work for me, and I know the Bible better than most Christians.

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Have you ever read Evidence that Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell? It has some interesting historical truths about the Bible. This investigation would have to entail more than just reading the Bible, not to say I don't read the Bible...

thread's for stating our current religion and birth status. lets not forget :D

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Originally Posted by jakobmuller

I don't think i am hearing this the right way, but could someone please help me to get this?

I don't get it when people try to say that the bible is true just because there are some historically true facts in there from the era.

I could write a book right now, that says all sorts of ridiculous silly things, such as: I have thirteen green ears, it rained jars of Vienna Sausage last Tuesday, and my dog can fly. Also, thrown in there are some true facts about my time period, like the fact that there is a fire hydrant on the corner of my street, about X number of people live in a certain city right now, and Italy is currently shaped like a boot.
Does the fact that some parts of the story are obviously correct make the entire thing automatically true, and should be obeyed unquestioningly by millions of people around the world for thousands of years to come?

I don't get why it's so amazing that the people who wrote the bible were alive when they wrote it, and had eyes to observe the world around them. I can think of about....6 billion people who fit those qualifications at the moment.

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I don't believe that questioning the Bible is the purpose of this thread. If you what to be skeptical of the Bible...start another thread.

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Originally Posted by cuppajoe_9

Catholic/atheist (although the idea that one can have a religion at birth is ridiculous).

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I agree. One cannot have a religion until one is able to understand...at least the basic concepts involved. Although in the early Hebrew religion was based on ethnic origin. One's belief in God...or their god, requires their own belief...belief required at least some minimal understanding.

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Originally Posted by jon1jt

I was raised by a She Wolf in an Idaho cave. Religion, unknown.

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I think you'll find that most She Wolves are Episcopalians, though there's a cultural tendency to keep it a personal thing and not to proselytise.

All other canine species, curiously, are Orthodox Russian.

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Originally Posted by jakobmuller

thread's for stating our current religion and birth status. lets not forget :D

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I don't have "religion," I have faith, so it is much harder to put into words and requires a bit more discussion. Threads by nature weave in and out a little; you don't mind that, do you?

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Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC

I don't believe that questioning the Bible is the purpose of this thread. If you what to be skeptical of the Bible...start another thread.

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I think questioning the Bible is fine. It has to do with people's religion. Why do we need to curtail what people want to say? Unless it's totally off topic, of course.

Roman Catholic -> Spiritualist

Roman Catholic---> agnostic

Born to Muslim parents, so by default my birth religion is Islam. And I am still a muslim. Never had issues with Islam as a faith. Ethnically Somali.

Born as an atheist (as were you all, by definition), still an atheist. Never been a reason to change.

I don't really know what my 'racial makeup' is either...i'm scottish? my dad's english?

What is your birth religion and current religious status? Also, racial makeup...

Birth Religion: Jewish
Current religous status: Atheist
Racial makeup: Paternal grandparents came from Russia (prior to 1917 I think)
Maternal grandparents came from Palestine, definitely before the creation of Israel in 1948

I was raised Roman Catholic, but my parents didn't brainwash me. With this I mean that I don't recall either of them ever mentioning "Jesus" or "God" outside religious debates with grown ups.

Was an apathetic atheist, now am a passionate agnostic.

born atheist. raised agnostic. practiced bokonism for a week (cat's cradle anyone). now anti-theist and a militant one at that