Diversity of religion in your family?

[Tumah]

Older stepsister is Jewish mystic Christian

Wurt?

 

[Rational Agnostic]

I came to the realization a few weeks ago how diverse my family's beliefs are. I myself am of course Hindu / Satanist and I never really considered my family super religious but I've noticed my younger siblings (age 15 and 21) and cousins (all teenagers) have started to develop their own beliefs. This lead me to actually count out who is what.

There are agnostics / atheists, Buddhists, Episcopalians, liberal Christians, at least one Catholic, and one isn't anything specific but draws a lot on Native American spirituality, and of course me. That's just within my immediate family, grandparents and my mom's siblings' immediate families (so aunts and uncles and 1st cousins).

My dad converted to fundamentalism long after he divorced my mom and he converted my brother and both married into really conservative Christian families. Both stopped talking to us for different reasons (one's reasons more innocent than the other's). Their families operate with almost no contact with my mom's side and so I'm not sure if they even really count.

But either way I'd say my family is really diverse. What about your family? How diverse are their beliefs?

My entire family are pretty much all devout Christians with the exception of myself and two of my cousins who are agnostic.

 

[crossfire]

Wurt?

She's a Christian who employs Jewish mystic traditions.

 

[Jumi]

Most are non-practicing Christians, though there are a few active(all women) in the Church. There's at least one atheist in my extended family.

 

[Tumah]

She's a Christian who employs Jewish mystic traditions.

So does she like, put out 12 Jesus wafers on her Sunday table or something?

 

[crossfire]

So does she like, put out 12 Jesus wafers on her Sunday table or something?

No. She employs stuff like Jewish-style astrology, kabbalah, and such.

 

[Rival]

My mom is a Christian; my dad is some kind of deist; my paternal nana and pa are atheists; my maternal nana is a Christian (I believe); my aunt is a Buddhist and my uncle is vaguely spiritual.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Modern Charismatic/Evangelical and SBC Baptist + me. I do not live near to extended family, but I guess they are at least 50% Baptist.

 

[Indagator]

Most of my family are Atheists. Usually we try not to talk about religion (and politics).

 

[SabahTheLoner]

???

Yes I know it sounds contradictory but somehow my grandmother has managed to find a Catholic Church that allow female priests.

 

[Mister Silver]

Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptist Christianity, and Atheism.

 

[arthra]

What about your family? How diverse are their beliefs?

Currently most of my family is Baha'i...My wife and adult children are Baha'is. My brother in law and his wife and adult child are also Baha'is.
Both my wife and I had Brethren and Baptist backgrounds in the family before.

 

[Araceli Cianna]

I am the only non christian in my entire family including extended family, on all sides (all protestant). Lol. I'm at a significant disadvantage there.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Yes I know it sounds contradictory but somehow my grandmother has managed to find a Catholic Church that allow female priests.

thanks! I looked that up--interesting! I wasn't aware that there are a number of Catholic Churches that are not associated with the RCC...

 

[Ponder This]

The people in my immediate family believe that religion is merely a language with which to discuss spiritual topics. They believe that people are programmed as they grow up to use the language of their particular religious identifications. They believe in a transcendent, higher reality of which our beliefs are merely a reflection. They agree that every person has the right to pursue the truth within his own heart.

They identify as spiritualist because they actively practice communication with the spirits of people and other living creatures directly (including those that have experienced death). The soul survives death. People and other living creatures do reincarnate.

 

[Kapalika]

Wow it seems so far like most families, even an atheist one or two are not very diverse, and that us diverse ones are the exceptions.

But of course this isn't a good sample source and RF isn't the most representative demographic.

 

[dawny0826]

All of the matriarchs in my family are devout Christians and of the conservative variety. My sisters and their families are less liberal than I, but, far less conservative than the generations before us. My father is not religious.

My mother in law and I are more liberal in our Christian faith. My father and brother in law are not religious.

My husband considers himself an agnostic pantheist, which, I don't fully understand. He is more good, more loving than most Christians I know, myself included.

We are raising our children to be cautious, but open minded and compassionate to others. I speak openly about my beliefs and as I suspected, my 15 year old is already questioning and forming her own, as I'm sure my other two will do.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Mash-up of various Christian denominations, mostly (but not universally) fairly liberal in nature.
My dad is hard to tell...I'd guess agnostic? He might have a view on God, but wouldn't talk about it. He has a low opinion of religion, generally.
My mum and sister are non-practicing Christians, I guess you could say.

Far as I know, I'm the only atheist.

 

[qalbesaleem]

I can't say my family's religious affiliations are too diverse. Almost everybody in my family belong to one denomination of Christianity or another except for myself.

 

[Sanzbir]

Everyone I know of is all part of the same religion. We all just call it different things.