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Do you belong to the religion that your family belonged to as you were growing up? Do you still hold to the faith that you were raised in?

Nah, I was raised Hindu and I'm an atheist now. But we were never religious.

No. I was raised Southern Baptist and had quite enough "hellfire and brimstone" to last me several lifetimes. The hypocrisy was a bit more than I could stand as well. :(

I have never been baptised and so have never been brought up that way. If anything, the story of my life has made me suspicious of most religions.

Fran

We were raised atheist in my family, so I chose other. Kind of hard to follow a religion when you've never had one.

What can I say, we kids were lucky to get rational parents.

sort of...my mother was Unitarian when i was growing up, and my father has been agnostic for as long as i can remember. i'm agnostic now. of course, my mom is now atheist, so that further confuses the matter...

I was raised without religion being a factor. My mother came from a catholic family, but doesn't practice.

My father and mother were raised Lutheran, but left the church when my brother died shortly after childbirth. I was baptised, but never attended church as a young child. My mom experimented with everything religious or pseudo-religious after that, and my dad just stopped believing.

So I grew up with a mom who tried Mormanism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Born Again Christian and some New Age crystal stuff and space alien crud too. Let me tell you, it turned me off church.

I didn't go into one willingly until my senior year of high school. What can I say? The base chaplain had a daughter who was friends with a friend of mine... I soooo wanted to go out with her, and the price my friend demanded for hooking us up was me going to church and joining the youth club. Blackmail for religious purposes, I know. :) Still, I got into the concept of non-denominational Christianity that way. And, yes, she was worth it.

In college, I dated a Morman for a bit. Great girl, but the church don't do it for me. I broke up with her because of pressure from her mom to convert. Biggest mistake of my life. Shoulda just told the mom to sod off and kept dating the girl.

I've prayed in Mosques, Synagoges (sp?) and Buddhist temples. I attended a Mass done by our recently departed Pope. No one religion has it all right for me. So I practice my faith by trying to do what I think is right, and damnall the consequences. I think God understands.

"What can I say, we kids were lucky to get rational parents"
ouch!
i was brought up in a "new evangelical" christian family and my parents are about as rational as you can get*
i've seen way to much stuff to make me doubt there is a God, and it's just a question of which God you believe in. personally there are so many lovely people in the church i was brought up in... none of your hellfire stuff... so i've only had positive experiences. i've gotta agree, some churches are very hypocritical.
so, that's me done :)

*obviously an exaggeration, but i'm trying to win a case here

god im sick of these religious threads

god im sick of these religious threads
feel free to not read them or post on them. crazy as it may sound, you have the power to not click on internet links.

ah yes, true, but still ya kno, thers so fekkin many. haha

Technically, I wasn't brought up with a religious upbringing. My mother preached her own brand of hypocrisy and bullshit, and my dad was accepting of all things and generally kind.

I ended up Seax-Wiccan, pretty much. Can't say I didn't see it coming.

Currently I do for my parents sake. Whether or not I'll change later in life I am nor sure. I rather like the Catholic church, but recognise that it has many problems.

My family was technically Jewish, but didn't practice. I'm pretty much an atheist now.

Roman Catholic - it "Didn't take" - now happily my own brand of Wiccan.

Feh, I was raised as a Catholic but I'm a Taoist now.

cristianity is not for me... I believe in the stuff in my head :P

I went from Southern Baptist to atheist.

My family is Catholic, I think that religion causes so many problems today that it's not even worth thinking about.

My parents are Methodist. When I was a kid they weren't too serious about it. When they started getting more into it, I became more and more of an agnostic. I think religion kinda ruins spirituality.

I am a catholic and was raised one, we were never very religious only went to church on Christmas, Easter, and funerals, and at one point I almost went atheist. Until one night, the next day I was flying to Italy and I had a very realistic nightmare that the plane was crashing. I awoke in a sweat. Well anyway the next day I was driving to the airport and was nervous as hell. Than I saw a sign. And in orange letters it said this "Ask Jesus! Jesus answers prayers!" Well, I thought what do I have to lose so I pulled over and prayed for about a minute. And as soon as I did this my fears went away. When I got to the Philadelphia international airport my plane was delayed. They found a problem with the gas tank. Another plane was brought in for us. That is, after a 4 hour wait. But to this day. I know it was the will of god and jesus if you will that saved my life and the lived of everyone else on that flight that could have gone horribly wrong.

A couple weeks later as I drove back the sign was blank. Not a word up there. So now I have really started to wonder.

I was born into a Catholic family, but after about the time I took my first communion my father stopped acting religious. So, at a young age, without a religious influence on my life [And the one I had before that wasn’t the best] I eventually became Agnostic.

A few months ago I began to think about religion again and after some time I returned to my Catholic faith, but with a few more Jewish beliefs that I found I liked as well.

So I suppose I am technically following the faith I was born into, but I found it on my own.

i find these poll results interesting, because it is estimated that 90% of religious Americans belong to the exact same faith they were reared into. now, i know there are a good number of non-Americans here, but i think the poll results are still significantly different from what you might expect to see.

as far as i am concerned, they're great results...i'm glad to see people are at least giving serious thought to their beliefs in one way or another.

I was raised christian and am now agnostic. So no.

My mother was protestant, my father was catholic. They encouraged me to decide myself when I was old enough, at 16 I chose to be Catholic and never really looked back so i spose i'd be in Other

my parents were semi-serious Methodists, but im atheist

I was raised Pentacostal but they is way crazy. Rolling in the aisles and speaking gibberish. Now I practice my faith by myself and mind me own business.

I said no. My family is Irish Catholic, (I was even named after St. James and the Archangel Michael....) and my family has been Catholic since St. Patrick was in Ireland.

But I'm not. To be honest, I don't know what I am, guess agnostic...Which seems to thoroughly annoy m family, being the first non-Christian in my family since the days of Druidism....Yay for me, fighting the machine! ;)

Mabye I should go back to Druidism, just to really piss off my family...

In response to the original question: No, I have changed massively.

But not in the way you might think. I changed from an original upbringing of agnosticism (kinda going to church once in every two months, but not fighting having to go every one of the few times we went), but then I was radically changed, and became a "Jesus Freak," a "Bible Thumper," "Crazy Fundamentalist," "Religious Nutcase," and other more colorful titles that I wear with pride.

I was born into an ethnically Irish Catholic family in Liverpool in the UK.

I attended catholic primary school from the age of 4 till the age of 8. It was run predominantly by catholic priests, some from the local area, others from Ireland.

Well, needless to say, I hated the school, and after they put me in a remedial class for mathematics without informing or seeking consent from my parents, they pulled me out of the school.

After many years, I'm in the final year of my degree in Computer Security (see if you can do that if you need remedial math classes) and I have no idea what I am. All I know is that I'm not Christian, and have a general dislike of the catholic church.