What is your birth religion and current religious status?

[EricP]

I was born and raised as a Catholic. Now I am an atheist.

[eyemaker]

Roman Catholic is my religion. Hi EricP, would you mind if I ask you why you shifted to be an atheist?

[EricP]

Roman Catholic is my religion. Hi EricP, would you mind if I ask you why you shifted to be an atheist?

I never really believed in god, even as a teenager wasting away countless beautiful Saturdays in stuffy, lengthy catechism classes. I basically went through the motions, following the path of least resistance to avoid confrontations with my parents. I became much more certain of my own personal lack of belief when I began reading philosophy. When I discovered the writings of Bertrand Russell, Nietzsche, Voltaire, Diderot, D'Holbach, Freud, Marx, and Darwin, I felt like a whole new world opened up to me. I haven't looked back since. I think that I became a much happier person once I moved away from home and was able to stop pretending.

I'm not a narrow-minded person, though, and some of my heroes are Catholics: Oscar Romero, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, Desmond Tutu, etc.

[Hypercrit Htd]

As Muslim youth it seem to me that religious people were most wicked people in the world. That had me look to other religion which did much to expand my knowledge. Today my view nondenominational.

[mercy_mankind]

As Muslim youth it seem to me that religious people were most wicked people in the world.

What is your religion?

[AARONDISNEY]

Born - Christian (church Of God - Cleveland, Tn Hq Denomination)

Now - Christian (church Of God - Cleveland, Tn Hq Denomination)
.....33 Years And Going.

*not that I was born a Christian - kinda looked funny when I saw it. I was born into a Christian family and became a Christian myself kind of late, age 26. Though I went to Church all my life. I respected Christianity, believed that Jesus was the answer, but still wanted to control my own life for 26 years until I gave it to Jesus (like I should have done many years prior).

[Sorceress]

I'm a Hindu

[Niamh]

Birth Religion; Roman Catholic
Current Religious Status; Spiritualist

[Virgil]

I'm not a narrow-minded person, though, and some of my heroes are Catholics: Oscar Romero, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, Desmond Tutu, etc.

Desmond Tutu is not Catholic. I believe he's Anglican.

[Niamh]

you are right Virg. He was ordained the first black anglican archbishop of cape town.

[ericalauren]

I was baptized Methodist, but I have always been atheistic agnostic (well, since I was able to think and remember, which was around age 5). I'm a European-American, but, first and foremost, I am a conscious citizen of the world.

[Judas130]

Born - A Roman Catholic, in London, of complete Irish heritage. Some i'm one of them..london-irish folk...yet i've moved out long ago.

Now - well, now i'm not sure. I respect my religion and i study religion at sixth form/college held in a catholic school. Basically, I put my opinions to one side and learnt the opinions of others, yet did not follow them, just observed them. Its all I do. I love to study faith, and what it does to people.
However, I myself have thought to renounce my faith mainly because it serves me no purpose anymore, I have a bible that i read, just as i have a koran. Every one of these world faith books contain lovely ideas which, should I agree with, I might live by. Hell, i've looked upon the work of the current Dalai Lama, all the way to that of Anton LaVey. I'm still trying to define God in my life, currently he is a non-physical symbol for universal brotherhood, yet something more would be nice. Maybe i might just resort to some pagan faith thats all about peace and worshipping the Sun. I can see the deal with that, without the Sun there would be no life on Earth.

I don't know.

[Bakiryu]

Birth religion? People are not born religious.

My parents are if that counts. My mother is a catholic/santeria practitioner and my father is a satanist.

I'm part irish
Part black
Part cuban-taino
part scottish

which in turn fragment into bits of little parts since my family seems to feel the need to marry quite different people from random countries.

I'm not religious right now, i like not to believe in lies.

[Judas130]

My mother is a catholic/santeria practitioner and my father is a satanist.

the phrase 'opposites attract' springs to mind. cool.

[cipherdecoy]

I'm chinese and an agnostic theist.