I was born a refugee and when we first came to Australia it was the Seventh-Day Adventist church that helped us settle down here.
Over time, my family became more and more secular, so I guess my upbringing was worldly?
Then, when I was 17 I went back to the SDA church (on my own, my family is still non-religious) out of thankfulness for what they provided for my family when I was still an infant, even if I do not agree with all of their doctrines.
Born with no religion, though given a Biblical name (in conjunction with my elder brother's), yet we attended Sunday Masses. My parents later baptized me as a Catholic at age 6, and we continued attending Masses, until I began developing my ideas related to skepticism; I have not gone to church since age 11 or 12. Now, I have ended up where I began, with no religion, yet still have a Biblical name.
My parents deliberatly tried to find a non-religious name for me, thus naming me after a celtic queen (All these inate expectations to live up to!) Later, they realised that two streets from their house was St. Sunniva's school.
That aside. I was brought up to understand and respect all religions, we read the bible around easter, read the koran for Eid, read buddisht scriptures while visiting the Borobudur, and told tales of hinduism. Both my parents were baptized, but neither is religious.
Buddhist.
Atheist.
The religion that my mind has mostly in common with (during my life experience) is Buddhism, although I am not physically close to Buddhists.
Love doesn't make the world go round,
love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
I grew up Catholic-raised, but have broken away from that. These days I'm somewhere between agnostic and buddhist.
I'm losing all those stupid games
That I swore I'd never play
Brought up Methodist, now Atheist, of Jewish and Gypsy descent.
"Books don't offer real escape but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw." David Mitchell
I grew up worshiping Sunday afternoon football (NFL), a religion around these parts. While I still maintain a certain reverence for this faith, I'm not as intense about it as I was in my younger days. But on those rare moments when faith aligns with circumstance, I can open a ceremonial beverage and raise it on high near my cushioned pew from whence I participate in this particular kind of worship from afar, as, alas, my sermon still arrives live via satellite.
No pilgrimage on the cards yet then?Originally Posted by The Comedian
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Born with both my parents being agnostic. I now consider myself an atheist.
My dad was raised Hindu. My grandpa on my mom's side was raised Jewish and my grandmother on my mom's side was raised Catholic but both considered themselves atheists when raising my mom.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I was brought up Catholic. I went to a private catholic school for 9 years. I never really took it seriously, and I am now athiest.
I think the nuns and monks confused me...
French on my father's side
Scottish on my mother's side
(I am sure with a few mixes in between)
Born and raised in America
Last edited by Mariamosis; 03-13-2009 at 02:45 PM.
-Mariamosis
Born and raised Roman Catholic
Science and Philosophy are helping me develop what I think it true and good. I don't follow any faith or any particular philosophy.
I'm of half dutch descent, the other half is a mix of british, scottish, dutch, and I don't know what else. I'm just Canadian, really.
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
Umm...I was born under...Bhuddist? Well, my mom was Catholic, I think? Eh, either way, I don't remember going to Bhuddist temples or Catholic churches. Mormonism now.
Full-Blood Lao.
"The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of the people and then they take themselves out of the slums. Christ changes men, who then changes their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature." ~ Ezra Taft Benson
Honestly: I grew up a half-hearted Methodist and am now a Jew by association.
“Oh crap”
-- Hellboy
I was born and raised a christian. I lapsed for a number of years, but a number of events have since made me start reading my bible again.
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