Throughout school we had to sing hymns and 'learn' about religion (watching Monty Python's Life of Brian for the most part) but I was never really forced into it because my parents aren't really big believers and, probably as a result, I never bought into it.
I was baptized a catholic and went to church almost every sunday as a kid. I think at the age of 7 or 8 I already stopped believing.
irish and was roman catholic, athiesm is still frowned upon here and I definetly would never let my hardcore catholic grandparents know I'm athiest,
Both of my parents are atheist, and there has never been any kind of religious person in both sides of the family as far back as they remember; I have always been atheist
My parents raised me showing me and my brother stories from multiple different religions to try and give me and my brother a choice of what we wanted to believe in, we ended up believing every thing we were shown was the same religion and was all true. I later became agnostic when I started spending more time online and putting more thought into things.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;36652187]Something like that. I remember my faith starting to fade about middle school. (no wonder)[/QUOTE]
Same, but I never really gave a crap about it.
It was basically saying that I was a christian and nothing else. Church didn't (and doesn't) mean squat to me, sunday school (which was on a saturday :v:) to me was just a way to be with friends and in later years get huge headaches from the fucktards that were in my class, and so on.
Nothing of it ever really meant anything to me. I don't even know if I can really say I was a christian at some point... And until I was 18, I was dragged to church.
Now that I think about it, the whole thing reminds me of the Unitologists in DS2...
I was baptized, used to believe in God when I was a bit younger. When I was 13-ish, I started to doubt it and my grandmother forced me to take confirmation and holy eucharist sacraments, because she is a keen believer and said that she'll go to hell if I don't do it. I love her very much, so I thought "fuck it, I'll do it", even though I was somewhat agnostic at the moment. After I took all that shit, I figured that it is quite impossible that there is some deity, so I turned full blown atheist after being agnostic for years (turned atheist 2-3 years ago I think).
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I think all those religious lessons could have turned me back to christianity, but the teacher at church school was the biggest asshole ever so I was too pissed to turn to belief again. I mean, I asked her "where did satan come from then" and she called my mom saying that I worship the devil and that I'm a satanist. Dumb bitch.
Also, I'm really interested in all religions, I find it fascinating that there are so many belief systems. I owe this love for religions to my old religion teacher back at school. He was pretty awesome, used to play Led Zeppelin and shit on his guitar at the end of lessons. Also showed a lot of movies about religion. He demanded hard work, like doing projects and shit to pass his class (and projects had to be of epic proportions), but still he was a pretty cool dude. Teached about christianity in a not brainwashing way. He also teached about judaism and those lessons were probably the most interesting of them all. I still remember all the shit he teached about it. Sorry for writing an irrelevant post, but I just felt like telling this, because that teacher was pretty damn awesome and he's worth every word I've said. I still meet him from time to time in town, because we live quite close to each other.
Also, it is pretty damn ironic that I have books "Religions of the World" and "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins right next to each other on the bookshelf.
I was brought up Christian, like my Mum and Dad, and went to church and read the bible. I'd say I was pretty devout to the church.
I lost my faith when I was in a car crash when I was 13. My mum died and I was left thinking, "Where's god? Where the hell is he when we need him?"
Although, It is fascinating to learn of other religions.
I was brought up Christian, but my dad doesn't really follow religion and my mum is believes that there's a God, but he's more of an moralistic ideal rather than a deity.
Basically she says I don't have to go to church so long as I don't murder anyone. I'm doing pretty well so far.
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;36655457]this I cannot agree with.
My opinion is this: either Christianity is true, or Islam is true, or Judaism is true, or some tribal religion somewhere is true, or none of them is true.
If some religion is true then it is in my best interest to get on my knees and worship the god of whatever religion that is, so that I can avoid going to whatever Hell analogue that religion has.
That being said, I doubt any of it is true.[/QUOTE]
But it doesn't matter whether there's a God or not, we live and we die, nothing changes that regardless of belief. Heaven and Hell are just a rationalisation of no-one knowing what happens after we die.
I used to catholic, but I realized Terry Crews was more powerful.
Me, my sister and my grandfather are the only atheists in my family,
everyone else is either catholic or agnostic.
I didn't like being catholic, I felt way too restricted.
Yes. My parents are from the north of Portugal, which is a very old timey, religious area of the country, but i was raised around lisbon, and was indeed a christian until i was about 13-14, started getting to grips with the internet, looked around and looked at all the poverty, hunger, asshole greedy politicians, assholes in general, corporations, and just came to the logic conclusion that if there is a god, he's either an incompetent idiot or just doesn't really give a shit.
I was brought up as a Unitarian but I always hated going to church so I was an atheist. When I was 12 I started believing in God, I don't follow any rules or anything though.
after beating doom and doom 2 a few times on nightmare without dying when i was little, i figured that i would totally stand a chance in hell (even though nobody in my family was a christian, i still heard about it from tv and other people)
seriously
My mom's Christian and my dad I believe is Catholic, though my dad is probably the least religious person you'll ever meet. My mom prays and everything but doesn't care that much. She tried to pass some of her beliefs down to me when I was younger but as I got older I figured it was pointless and after some research, stopped believing and went Agnostic.
I was Christened Catholic and went to a Catholic Primary School, but later went to a different, non religion based High School.
I was never a devout Catholic, but when I was younger I did believe in God, Heaven and Hell and all that shit and join in prayer with the class, but I ended up turning Atheist and now I just class myself as Agnostic.
I made a deal with Lucifer.
Raised Catholic and came to the conclusion of being atheist at around 15-16.
My mom never expressed any religious faith while I was growing up so naturally I never believed in god.
But I think that's very common here in Sweden.
Yeah I was forced by my parents (who are Jehovah's Witnesses). Realized when I was 15 that it was all a big load of bullshit.
No. My parents aren't very religious, they never took me to church, and never told me about god or other religious things. My aunt, uncle and cousins are religious, but they all live in a different state, so I don't talk to them much. In prekindergarten I went to a church day care thing, but all that happened there was playing with blocks and the occasional religious song. I never really encountered anyone who was super religious until middle school, and by then I cared more about learning science thanks to Bill Nye and such things.
I'm gonna vote yes even though I've never been atheist. Close enough, I'm agnostic.
My mom sent me to PSR. It is a thing for Catholics where they teach you about the catholic religion. When i was 12 on of the assignments was to read certain verses of the bible, but i read the whole thing instead. After reading the whole bible i became an atheist
My parents aren't religious at all, I'm not even entirely sure what their beliefs are. The only times I've stepped into a church were for weddings and funerals. I definitely believed in god at some point, but it was always such a non-issue that I can't even remember when I realized there wasn't one.
I was raised a christian, but at around 12 I started asking myself questions about the meaning of life and shit. I read a lot of books and thought about it for a while. When I finally told my mother I thought this whole god thing was nonsense, she flipped out. She took away any videogames with violent or evil-sounding names (which didn't actually have much effect) and acted a wee bit hostile towards me for a couple of weeks. When she realised I came upon these thoughts by my own searching for answers instead of media "leading me astray", she calmed down for a bit. Been an atheist ever since, maybe a little bit antitheist.
I was, actually.
I was brainwashed since I could read, so I grew up accepting it blindly, then when I was around 14 I had an epiphany, and realized that there was a 99.9% chance an omnipotent being would be watching over people and basically telling us to pick one side and live forever, or another and be tortured forever.
I was christian until I realized that even if go is real he's an asshole that I wouldn't want to worship anyway.
[QUOTE=mfb412;36666011]Yes. My parents are from the north of Portugal, which is a very old timey, religious area of the country, but i was raised around lisbon, and was indeed a christian until i was about 13-14, started getting to grips with the internet, looked around and looked at all the poverty, hunger, asshole greedy politicians, assholes in general, corporations, and just came to the logic conclusion that if there is a god, he's either an incompetent idiot or just doesn't really give a shit.[/QUOTE]
Exactly the same as me, country included :v: except I've lived in the north forever.
How can there be a god with all this bullshit?
Is it a test of "endurance" in a shit rock where the worthy and followers will be rewarded with "heaven" or whatever? Thats a pretty sadistic contest.
If god is the one who "calls" people earlier, then he is a murderous bastard to take our loved ones away from us.
And how can some people blame "evil" for certain early deaths and not god?
Seriously, if I think about it, god is worse than any other asshole or evil being that exists. And why? Because he allowed them to exist.
Its just sickening.
And prayer and cure/healing or whatever is the biggest bullshit ever. You could argue with a religious person if it does indeed work or not and do the whole "what about someone who really deserves it and doesnt gets it facing someone who doesnt deserves it at all" points and they'll just say "LOL GODS WILL, WE CAN'T QUESTION IT"
If it is god's will, then my idea still stands: god is the source of all evil.
[editline]8th July 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Wolfos;36671742]I was raised a christian, but at around 12 I started asking myself questions about the meaning of life and shit. I read a lot of books and thought about it for a while. When I finally told my mother I thought this whole god thing was nonsense, she flipped out. She took away any videogames with violent or evil-sounding names (which didn't actually have much effect) and acted a wee bit hostile towards me for a couple of weeks. When she realised I came upon these thoughts by my own searching for answers instead of media "leading me astray", she calmed down for a bit. Been an atheist ever since, maybe a little bit antitheist.[/QUOTE] I did something of the sort last summer. I planned to go to the beach with some friends and ditch church for the first time (ended up going to the beach alone and get a fucking huge burn all over my body, worth it though) My mom didn't talk to me for days and my dad said something like "WOW WHAT A NICE PERSON YOU ARE BECOMING, NOT GOING TO CHURCH, NOT GOING WITH YOUR PARENTS, REPRESENTING YOUR FAMILY" What the fuck, representing my family? What? And how does that change me into a good person, if I'm even a bad person at all? They just accept it by now.
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