What is your birth religion and current religious status?

[BienvenuJDC]

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.

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.

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

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.

[MarkBastable]

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

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.

[Lynne Fees]

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

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?

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.

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.

[Niamh]

Roman Catholic -> Spiritualist

[pagebypage]

Roman Catholic---> agnostic

[West]

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.

[meh!]

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?

[Don Quixote Jr]

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

[Mr Endon]

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.

[billyjack]

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

[Homers_child]

Born: Christian. (I guess, I was never baptised but it was my family's religion.)
Now: Deist.
Racial Make-Up: Irish and German heritage.

[La Amistad]

Birth Religion: Islam
Current religous status: Muslim

[JuniperWoolf]

When I was born, my parents decided to baptize me protestant. As of today, I don't have a religion. I wouldn't describe myself as an atheist or agnostic. I think I'm a humanist.

I'm Canadian, but like most Canadians I'm a hodgepodge of lots of things. The only true part of me that's Canadian is that my great grandfather was native. The rest of me is Irish and Scottish.

[backline]

I was born into a Protestant family, but I sure didn't "get it."

By the time I was 11 or 12 years old I apathetically left Christianity (as I understood it then) behind consciously, although my values were certainly fixed in place. Growing up the Western European Judeo-Christian ethic seemed the tacitly endorsed civil religion of the United States, culturally. I had many Catholic and Jewish friends. I'm not sure how many, if any, of us "got it."

Nowadays, I see spirituality as unattached from religion.

Spirit, to me, is like water. It takes the shape of the constraints it's subjected to. Religions are like vessels trying to hold or direct the water.

Some days I suppose I'm a practicing Christian, as an interface. Other days I may be immersed in Buddhism, or atheism.

Sometimes I'm just an oil slick on the surface of a huge ocean of water: not too deep, but can be colorful if the light's right.

[Stargazer86]

Born, baptized, and rigorously raised Roman Catholic. I am an ex alter server/catholic school girl for 10 years. I'm agnostic/deist.
Nationality wise, I'm American. Ethnically, I'm a total mutt. Mostly Irish. On my dad's side I'm Scotch-Irish and English. On my mom's side, I'm Irish, Egyptian (a great grandparent was Jewish Egyptian, family was in Alexandria for ages), and Portuguese (another great grandparent). The Portuguese and Egyptian are 1/8th. I have quite a bit of Irish on both sides and family still there and all family here in the US closely identifies with the Irish parts so that's my main ethnicity.
Interesting comparison, backline, very interesting to think about indeed...