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Religion and Spirituality, Science and Philosophy Use this forum to discuss what you believe in. This is a place where everyone may share their views freely.
Re: Religion: What Were You Raised As? -
April 5th 2009, 03:53 PM
1. I was raised as a Catholic Christian. My whole family is Catholic.
2. I'm still a Catholic Christian. I've challenged my faith in the past and have never been able to find any other faith (Christian or otherwise) that fit my beliefs so well. I feel empty without my faith.
At home, I'm a devout church-goer and I help out with a lot of things (set up for various events, babysitting, teaching, VBS/Faith Camp). Unfortunately, when I'm at school, I don't really go to church that much. Often times, because of my lack of sleep during the week, I use Sunday mornings to catch up. When I do go to church, it's not nearly as comfortable as being at my home church; the people aren't quite as pleasant as my church back home, and it makes it hard to go.
“Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time. You may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be." ~Jon Bon Jovi
Re: Religion: What Were You Raised As? -
April 13th 2009, 02:04 PM
My family are not religious and I was not sent to a religious school but I was baptised as a Prostenant and I went to church up to the age of 7. My next door neighbour was very religious and she took me to church with her, I always believed in God. Then we moved house and no one took me to church anymore.
Then I got older and started thinking about religion for myself.
I am now an agnostic. I am studying A level religious education so I am learning about other religions and looking for one that fits what I feel.
Re: Religion: What Were You Raised As? -
April 13th 2009, 07:50 PM
1. I was raised Roman Catholic, but not for very long. I was baptized and sent to Catholic school until about grade 2. Around the time my mother's friends started saying they'd been molested by priests when they were younger, my mom lost faith in the Church and we stopped going. My mom still believed in God (I think), but she didn't bring us up at all religiously. We stopped going to Catholic school for two reasons: a) we moved and the new school wouldn't allow us to register because my mom had gone through a nasty separation and my father had our baptism certificates and b) she decided not to fight that, as the previous school we'd gone to mistreated me for being left handed, despite her objections.
2. I'm a Satanist. I don't believe there is a God, I don't believe there's an afterlife. I still enjoy learning about religions, living and dead, but I don't believe in anything. I believe this life is all we have, and that we should thus enjoy it as much as possible.
Not around so much now that school's started
"Live a good life.
If there are gods and they are just,
then they will not care how devout you have been,
but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by.
If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them.
If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life
that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
Re: Religion: What Were You Raised As? -
April 13th 2009, 08:04 PM
I was raised atheist, or rather I wasn't raised under any religion, but my parents both encouraged me to educate myself about religion and to find a set of beliefs - religious or otherwise - that I felt suited me and my life.
Unsurprisingly, I'm now (still, really) a devout atheist.
The atoms that make up you and me were born in the hearts of suns many times greater than ours, and in time our atoms will once again reside amongst the stars. Life is but an idle dalliance of the cosmos, frail, and soon forgotten. We have been set adrift in an ocean whose tides we are only beginning to comprehend and with that maturity has come the realization that we are, at least for now, alone. In that loneliness, it falls to us to shine as brightly as the stars from which we came.