My family has always been strongly christian, but they have loosened up over the years. I think a lot of the atheists/agnostics on this board can say that their parents are Christian as well(which played a major role in us becoming what we are). I know atheism isn't anything new, but I'm willing to bet this generation has way more atheists than the last one, simply because information is more widespread and there are more havens for finding like-minded people. I want to raise my own kids with morals, though I don't plan to force any belief or disbelief on them. So, feel free to comment on any part of this topic: raising kids, atheists parents, how you want to raise your kids religion-wise, etc. I figured we need a break from all the "omg xtians R teh dumb god aint real cuz i say so" threads.

Unfortunately no. Too bad, it could have saved me more than a few years of annoyance and arguing with my parents because I didn't want to go to catechism anymore.

If I ever have children I will raise them athiest and not prohibit them if they decide to worship another religion.

my mom believes the christian story, but never goes to church. My dad, well I dont know never, asked him. I've been to church once when i was really young. Thats pretty much it. I was raised to do whatever the fuck i want.

Yea i was raised by atheist parents, well i guess you call them that. They never mentioned the word "god" ever.

Nobody in my family is religious at all, I'm an atheist, always have been and probably always will be. Growing up without knowing about religion, god etc didn't bother me one bit. God was irrelevant without knowing what god will was.

I only started studying religion when i started getting older and kept hearing about this jesus character and islam on the news..etc kind of made me more of an atheist.

Personally i find religion to be quite funny, especially after reading jesus's miracles, oh boy, gotta love them.

My Dad's an Atheist and my Mom is a very liberal Christian. United Church in Canada she is always reading buddhist material and stuff but she does take her religion seriously. Not to the point of her imposing because to her religion is a personal choice and a personal connection.

My parants are none belivers, kinda. My Mom tried to show me religion by taking me to differant churchs, but we always left right after they asked us for money and TO THIS DAY my dad had never even utterd the word god.

I never learnt of either of my parent's stance on religion until a few years ago. My mother turns out to be a rather strong atheist while my dad is an extreamly out of practice member of the CoE. I think he halfheartedly follows Pascal's Wager or something along those lines.



Although on the census, they are a 'Jedi' and a 'Sooner' respectfully. (Sooner = Sooner-have-a-beer-than-go-to-church)

I think this really shows how apathetic they are when it comes to religion. This is exactly how they treated it when we were growing up. They just didn't give a shit.



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I was raised within the Australian Christian template, though I was never baptised, taken to church or seriously indoctrinated.

I suppose it stems from my mother to not believe in god specifically but in some higher order of nature.

I think that's the way I'll raise my children too. Not confining them to religion but not confining them to atheism either.

With an open mind hopefuly they can find something that rests well with them.

My father is an Atheist. Both my parents came from an uber religious ass backwards 3rd world country. My mother kept her faith, but my father lost his when he served in the military during a time of war. So by the time my parents had me, my mother was quiet about her faith because my father really lost it. My mother would send me to church after school so I could learn about the religion and recieve my Holy Sacraments.

I was a little kid, I thought going to church after school was to socialize with my "after school" friends, the other children going to the same church. I really did not develop my faith until high school. After all of my friends started dissappearing, I had so much free time to actually try doing what I needed to do for school and go back to church after school, like before, for a little soul searching.

Now I believe in God because my mother made sure that was enstilled into me at a young age, but I don't believe in the doctrine because my father raised me based on reality.

My mother is Christian and believes in God although she has never once gone too church, except for when she had me + my sister christened. Which too be fair, she only had done because her dad told her she wouldn't be aloud back in the house if she didn't.

Anyway, I told her I'm an Atheist and she has never questioned me on it, and seems to respect my choice.

My dad is an agnostic/atheist and my mom is one of those liberal Christians who believes homosexuality & abortion are okay and that there are "many paths to God".

I'm a fundamentalist-Christian by the way.

quote:Originally posted by yango wango:

My Dad's an Atheist and my Mom is a very liberal Christian. United Church in Canada she is always reading buddhist material and stuff but she does take her religion seriously. Not to the point of her imposing because to her religion is a personal choice and a personal connection.

OMG. We're like the same!

Do you go to the United Church as well? I do because I still live with my mom and to be honest I don't see anything wrong with it. Although I disagree with their stance on abortion & homosexuality I don't think there's much point in switching churches.

I wasn't raised 'atheist', so much as I was raised 'nontheist'. My parents never mentioned God, and I actually never really bothered to even look into church seriously until I was 7. My aunt tried to convert me, but none of it made any sense to me.

I've realized that people feeling "God's holy presence" is most likely a conditional reflex response to being told what they should feel. Since I never had this entrained at and early age, I feel nothing.

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