Damn, am I the only Christian on this site?
I'm a Christian now. Was raised this way, an have been ever since. I'm not like those Christians you mostly hear about being judgmental, etc. , or else I wouldn't even probably be a member of this site. I respect all beliefs and I believe that everyone is entitled to an opinion. I know at least 90% of Facepunch is Atheist. :v:
[QUOTE=Character;36655175]Why is 'Christian' the only option? My mother was Roman Catholic, [/QUOTE]
Catholicism is just a branch off Christianity. If you have Christ anywhere in your beliefs, your religion is a part of Christianity.
[QUOTE=thisispain;36656539]i'm jewish like my mum and neither of us believe in god
that's actually a pretty old joke:[/QUOTE]
So you're just jewish by name/tradition, and not religion?
[editline]7th July 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=OH-SNAP!;36656845]Damn, am I the only Christian on this site?
I'm a Christian now. Was raised this way, an have been ever since. I'm not like those Christians you mostly hear about being judgmental, etc. , or else I wouldn't even probably be a member of this site. I respect all beliefs and I believe that everyone is entitled to an opinion. I know at least 90% of Facepunch is Atheist. :v:[/QUOTE]
FP is very liberal and atheism tends to come with that pretty often
I was Christian until I opened my eyes to what was really going on. Of course, my mother was the reason I was Christian, but I started to lose faith when I was able to realize what was up. The sad thing is, I have four siblings, who are all being forced via my mom to be of the Christian faith. It's horrible in my opinion, for all these kids to fear this all knowing being, and fear doing anything 'sinful' because it will land them in a place of endless torment. Really? Behave or you're going to hell is the message here. That's awful. Another thing I strongly disagree with is the fact most people are told by the Bible to love God more than anyone. It's kinda horrible, knowing your mom worships and loves a fictitious being more than her own children, and this is the case with many people.
Nah, I was always a skeptical child.
Never believed in Santa Claus either but pretended to so my parents would buy me gifts.
I used to be catholic.
Eventually I kinda came up with this thing that there could be a God, but he/she doesn't give a shit about us.
If he/she can shit out entire realities, why would they be so concerned with humanity?
my parents raised me as atheist - they were both raised in extremely religious families and despise religion. i'm agnostic.
Sorta, I was circumcised and my mother had me say my prayers, but after I was able to put myself to bed, I started losing it. I got super interested in science and leaned away. When I was 12-13, Mom up and told me "You're going to church every Wednesday to be confirmed as a Lutheran. I played along, but as the day of confirmation approached, I spoke out. My parents and the church that I would finish the confirmation classes, but not be confirmed, my parents disapproved, but allowed me to be my own person. This past year, I got into a friendly conflict with a girl I know and went to her youth group once, but I became known as an atheist throughout the building, I then started making jokes at my friend, which amplified the effect, (she was never hurt though, she laughed at them most of the time.) There are still times that I have to go to a church for an event like a baptism, if I'm present for a prayer, I respectfully nod my head down.
Legally yes. But "legally" applies to pretty much my entire immediate family. My mother's beliefs are extremely flexible and the only absolutes are "at least one deity" and "some kind of afterlife or reincarnation" and my father may as well be agnostic.
Up until I was almost ten I really didn't even know what religion was. The only difference between "Christian" and "Jewish" I knew of was that they celebrated different holidays and I thought God and Jesus were nonsense words. I knew what heaven and hell were, but for the longest time I failed to see their religious significance. One was what dead people call the stratosphere and the other was a hot cave with strange red people in it. I knew nothing about churches beyond that people got married and had funerals in them, and that a lot of them are preschools for some reason.
Once I got a better understanding of religion I found most of it to be pretty ridiculous, even offensive at times, probably because a lot of it was introduced to me as "if you are X you [B]must[/B] believe this". After learning that Atheism was a thing it quickly started sounding attractive to me.
Baptized and forced by my parents to confirmation. I never really cared about it and often overslept on purpose just so I didn't have to go to church. By my standards the church is a horrible place full of batshit crazy people believing that and old bearded man in the sky created the world 2000 years ago and judges your every movement.
At least the people in my church behave like that.
I've never really believed in God. I believed in Santa. the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy, does that count?
I was once a christian. But as my teenage years grew closer, my brain began to function and I developed free thought. I was a closet atheist from 13-15 but now I'm completely open and willing to argue my views.
When my mother first heard of it, she immediately tried to explain to me that I was confused and tried to drag me to church meetings and reconvert me. My mother is a severe christian while my father is somewhat a christian, but doesn't practice.
I converted my brother over after a few witty remarks, and a punchline.
Unfortunately, I am stuck in a catholic Marianist school for two more years until College. My parents would never allow me to transfer to public school, not because it lacks religion, but rather because public schools in my state absolutely suck in every way.
I was a muslim when I was younger but after I learned about evolution and all in TV I started doubting about believing in god.
Now I just don't give a damn if god exists or not
I used to believe in God until I was about 10 or so. At 11 I had decided I was an atheist.
My family's religious but they never really talked to me about religion or tried to force me into it. I never believed in the concept of a god, anyway.
Yes.
I was baptized, but never believed in God. Like, never. I guess it is because of all encyclopedic books i've been reading as a kid. I was fascinated by dinosaurs and evolution back then.
Come to think of it, there are no highly religious people in my family. Week ago my father and I was discussing differences between Satan and God, and how could you distinguish between them if Satan was going around and doing wonders for people. I've never ever been to church.
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I was born into a practically Catholic family (butchered penis), but as I got older we started slipping down the line (Lutheran, Fundamentalist, then Baptist, then Southern Baptist) until I hit middle school and realized religion was pretty much bullshit and that it was much less complicated to just keep spiritual ideals to one's self or in my case to abandon them completely.
Generally I'd have to say that it coincided with the increasing amount of time I spent within Internet communities and days of research in attempts to make myself less ignorant.
I was raised by a very religious mother. Always told me about how gays are going to hell and that I should try to help them see the way, about how socialism is evil, anyone other than Christians are going to hell, watched fox news because its the only news outlet that tells the truth, things like that. She told me that I should read the bible, so I did. I went onto read a lot of religious texts from Islam, Buddhism, etc, trying to see the viewpoint of the people considered "the enemy". (My mother told me that I shouldn't read that trash, as it put ideas in my head"
It took me a couple years to really change my mind into an atheistic view. It's hard to switch over when you've been taught something your entire life. A lot of "Oh god must exist because of this", or "How can this even be explained scientifically?" It's kind of weird thinking about it now, I have no more doubts that he doesn't exist. When I catch glimpses of christian television that my mother is watching, I feel weird thinking I used to believe in this shit.
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;36653892]my parents are both agnostic and so am I
I have been to church though since my ex-best friend was a christian
her mom drove me crazy though. "no harry potter because magic comes from the devil"
srs.[/QUOTE]
My old babysitter wouldn't let me watch Scooby-doo because it "Promotes the evil holiday halloween"
I was an athiest as soon as I actually had a clue about the world
So from about 5 or 6 I guess
I used to be a christian cos I was well told to be one (being dragged to church)
then meh, i stopped believing/caring to be honest, christianity died in my mind eventually
Both my parents are atheist, but they were pretty keen on me making my own mind up. So when my grandma wanted to teach me about religious things they were fine with it.
But really, I've always been an atheist. The thought that god could be real never really struck me, even from a young age I was never a fan of going to church (The two times that I actually went) and when we had a family meal my grandma would make us say grace, which I never really understood either.
I think the only thing anti religious thing my dad ever did was give me a note saying I didn't have to go to this religious education thing at my primary school, so the teachers let me play computer games instead. Was pretty boss.
Born into a jewish family and was athiest around 11 years old must by influenced by my big brother who is pretty anti religous.
Used to be almost fanatically catholic, now I'm an atheist.
When I was 10 my belief started to fade. I was exempted from Religion classes, which in Poland is praying for like 20 minutes and then listening to the teacher talking about how god is wonderfull and gays are bad. Literally.
It always annoyed the fuck out of me, the fucking horseshit the teacher was saying.
I used to identify as an Anglican until I was about 10. I was actually a pretty shitty Christian, I would blaspheme all the time and only prayed when I felt like it, even then it wasn't serious. When I was 10 I just kinda thought about whether or not I believed in God and how badly I followed the religion I identified as, and decided I would say I was an atheist from then on. I think the major factor that contributed to me being an Anglican was that my primary school (a school that goes from kindergarten to 6th grade) had a set amount of time each week in which religious stuff was done, and I was lumped in the Anglican group. My parents didn't have anything to do with it, they both are and always were atheists and didn't force anything on me.
I was a baptised Catholic but when I was around 9 and 10, I started questioning if god was actually real and I had trouble wrapping my head around the whole thing. I felt guilty because I thought everyone believed in god, I thought there was something wrong with me. Once I figured out there was other people, I was like yay! :downs: I'm not athiest though.
I do have christian friends and they are very kind, though. :downs:
Was a Roman Catholic, believe it or not, till I turned 10.
I was baptized and when I turned 14 I was confirmed, it's family tradition, so I couldn't really say anything against it not that I would, I've always thought religion and religious beliefs to be very interesting.
I believed in god until my early teens, it started when I was about 13 and I started to study other religions, this was part of our lessons in school, so I guess that my public school were a big part of my resulting atheism.
Anyways our local priest, a really nice guy, knew that I wasn't a very strong Believer, so for my conformation, these were the words he gave to me:
"God is our refuge and strength, in him you will always find help in times of need."
it might seem funny, but i didn't even know religion was an actual thing until i was like, 11.
I never was actually,until 11 i was pretty much an apatheist i had no specific religion.
Then at the age of 12 i announced i am an atheist,then my atheism progressed to anti-theism by the age of 14.
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