What is your birth religion and current religious status?

[mtpspur]

To Dr Eep--Thank you. I try not to kid myself about myself. A running gag going on at work and home is that I can relate almost anything and get it back to being about me when in cold reality it rarely really ever is. When ever I do dishes anymore I remind the long suffering wife there was a reason I didn't like my daughter getting married--why should SHE have a life---what about ME!!!???

I'm solid on knowing the Lord Christ as my personal saviour but overwhemed He cares on such a personal level. I feel like the guy who owed 50 pence and likes his redeemer least because of it or (especially worst) the servant who hid his talent in the ground. I spent years trying to relate to God as a 'Father' when I really shold have stopped comaring him to my dad and make it make sense. This mind you after years of thinking of Him as a High School principal--sure they want the best but don't mess up. Heart knowledge--head knowledge -the constant struggle to be real.

Bottom line--His forgiveness is TOO GOOD to be true. YET IT IS. I'm still learning that THAT is a very good thing indeed.

[miss tenderness]

I'm born Muslim,

in the beging I was a bit far from religion,no practice but then I was like: is my life purposless, went back to study religions and my focus was on my birth religion Islam. I feel like I've lost many years of my life>>>now I'm strongly back to practice my religion,knowing more about it.
I'm born a Muslim, I'm a Muslim now , will die a Muslim inshallah.

[Virgil]

I'm born Muslim,

in the beging I was a bit far from religion,no practice but then I was like: is my life purposless, went back to study religions and my focus was on my birth religion Islam. I feel like I've lost many years of my life>>>now I'm strongly back to practice my religion,knowing more about it.
I'm born a Muslim, I'm a Muslim now , will die a Muslim inshallah.

Hey Miss T. I had a similar experience with my religion.

[Chava]

Hmm, i was born totally oblivious to religion, which is rather releiving. My mother tought me about all religions, i have book's on Toaism, two bibles (one of them has illustrations), The koran, and so forth.
I would love to say i'm agnostic, but I'm not. I'm an atheist. On the other hand, i feel people should be free to practice their religion. What i strongly dislike about religion is extremists, or people who feel so blessed that they try to convince other's of they're religion.
Religion is a personal thing. Don't push it onto people, and don't push it away from them!
I'm half danish/norwegian nad I grew up in Indonesia.

[holograph]

Well I am Belarusian. I was born there. 1/2 Jewish and 1/2 Catholic by birth.

I have plenty of religious fanatics and atheists in my family, I abhor dogma, I am a spiritualist in my own regard.

[Laindessiel]

My mom was born a Catholic but ever since she was a kid, she would very hesitantly do, never heed if she had her way, the routines and the doings in her church simply because she was in her right state of mind to realize what's wrong and what is right.

Now I'm afraid to say it all one-by-one because some people here are Catholics. I know religion is a very sensitive and touchy subject so I hope nobody bears a grudge on me. (Please don't take anything I say personally...)

When she grew up, she became a Christian (I always associated the word "Christian" with a religion and didn't know what it really meant) and until now, we are Christians, I say. We believe that there is an Almighty God and his son Jesus is our saviour. We don't go to any church, don't listen to any sermon but we are filled with joy and blessings because we know that we are serving him right. Just read the Bible and do everything it says.

All you have to do is fear him and all the good things are yours.

We have no religion; but God is.

[mir]

hey! i like that idea!!

i used to be like that for a while after i left Judiasm . . . then i declined bit by bit into aethism. i'll probably be a solipsist in a year, the rate i'm going.

[AQuick]

I am an American who is 1/8 English 1/8 Dutch(descendant of Stuart Kings) 1/4 German, 1/4 Italian, 1/8 Irish(Northern, so Protestant) 1/8 Scottish: The first half I listed coming from my father who was born and raised and still is Lutheran, and the second half from my mother who was raised Catholic because her Italian mother, but she(my grandmother) was not very religious and my grandfather(Protestant Scotch/Irish) was very, so then my mom was very little religious, especially after my grandfather died around 40 of complications from Lung cancer. My mom had rejected Catholicism when she was 15 and lived w/o a religion until . . .
My mom married my father and then they moved from Chicago to California then to Arizona and then my parents joined the church that they are still members of and my mom was enthralled because of the genius of our old pastor(now a pastor at Cal Lutheran University, who was a bishop of Arizona) and now she is still very religious
Apparently when I was a young child I wanted to be a minister
I am very spiritual with heavy Christian tendencies, but I love philosophy, mainly classic, but including 19th century, so I have a very diverse outlook on religion. I rarely attend church, yet still am deeply religious. I love studying every religion under the sun, but am definitely a monotheist.

So, I would consider myself a Christian Deist with Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and Socratic influences. All at almost 17 years old

[i_be_jimi]

Jewish though birth right but never practest any religion

now sorta budist pagan if that makes sence...

Quarter Japeness
Mostly rich white people

[Lily Adams]

I am decsended from people who came from the British Isles, France, Germany, and Russia.

I was baptised Greek Orthodox, but I'm an Atheist.

[msdirector]

Born and bred in the NYC area, I am Jewish by birth and choice - definitely Jewish ethnically, culturally and religiously. All four of my grandparents were from two little towns (very much like "Anatevka"!) not far from Kiev in what is now Ukraine, was then Russia. In fact, my mother was actually born in Russia and came to Canada (the Toronto area) when she was a year old. She came to the US to visit cousins, met my father (whose parents had emigrated to Brooklyn a few years before he was born), and moved here and became a citizen when she married him.

While I love the rituals of Judaism, I don't actively practice them very often. I am, I guess, more spiritual than actually formally religious. But, while I am Jewish, and decidedly so, I am very curious and open to ideas and beliefs from all other religions and cultures. I impose my beliefs on no one and treasure the chance to learn about theirs.

I think the basis of my beliefs is that the essence of G-d, or whatever spiritual creative being(s) you believe in, is too big for any of us to have any clear perception of. I don't know if any of you have ever heard the story of the 7 blind men who came upon an elephant on the road. Wanting to find discover what this entity is, they approaches the elephant and, by chance, each of them touches a different part of the beast. Excitedly they try to describe it to each other: "The elephant is like a huge wall, " said the one who felt the elephant's side. "Oh, no - the elephant is like a snake," protested the one who touched the elephant's trunk. "No it isn't," said the one who touched the elephant's ear, "it is like a great fan!" "Nonsense," scoffed the one who felt the elephant's tail, "it's like a rope." "I disagree! It's like the trunk of a tree," insisted the one who had wrapped his arms around the elephant's leg. But seventh blind man had walked right past the elephant. "What are you all talking about," he said. "There's nothing here at all!"

That story epitomizes how I feel about religious beliefs. Each of us "sees" or feels or believes in the perception of G-d that we have personally experienced (or that has been taught to us by others). But that doesn't mean the we "know" all of what G-d is. The creator, whatever he/she/it may be, if there is one at all, is far too big for any of us to understand in its totality. We each see a tiny part of the whole. We are all right, but none of sees the whole picture. When we fight about religion, we are like those blind men, fighting to maintain that their perception is the only one. I prefer to believe that we all see some part of the whole - even those who see nothing at all - and that we can all benefit by sharing our beliefs and learning from each other.

[Ancestor]

No religion by birth for I was raised to choose my own spiritual path. I am now a Spiritualist with to me is a religion although some may disagree that is fine with me. But I believe in a higher being and the power of prayer and my church is where ever I am at the moment.

[cuppajoe_9]

Spiritualism, while certainly a religious position, is not an organized religion, per se. That's ok, neither is atheism.

[Ancestor]

Some people still think it is Satanism but it is not but is similar to Christian beliefs.

[cuppajoe_9]

Some people still think it is Satanism but it is not but is similar to Christian beliefs.

Some people still think the sun goes around the earth. What can you do?