Your Childhood Religion vs. Now

[Shadow Wolf]

I was raised Southern Baptist but left it in my teens.

 

[The Hammer]

I was raised vaguely christian for 12 years. And then sent to a Catholic Sunday school for like 3 years. Hated it.

Now I'm Pagan and have been for a while.

 

[metis]

I grew up in a fundamentalist Lutheran church but now attend mass with my wife in the Catholic Church as a member. However, generally speaking, I'm much more compatible philosophically with the Hindu approach, and I am by no means the only Catholic who feels this way.

 

[mangalavara]

I'm much more compatible philosophically with the Hindu approach, and I am by no means the only Catholic who feels this way.

Could you explain what you mean by being ‘more compatible philosophically with the Hindu approach?’

Have you met many Catholics who feel the same?

 

[lewisnotmiller]

I was raised Church of England. I don't remember ever having much in the way of 'belief' but I was raised in a religion.

I left when I could, probably 11, roughly? I've always been interested in religions, though. They're fascinating in some ways.

 

[Aupmanyav]

I was raised as a Hindu, I am still fervently a Hindu. The only change has been that from a theist Hindu I have become an atheist Hindu.

 

[shunyadragon]

First, I do not believe changing churches in Christianity is really changing one's religion.

I was raised in the Roman Church (RCC). I gradually rejected first the Roman Church than Christianity as a teenager, because they were not relevant to the contemporary world. I did not reject the existence of God, but considered an open question. . and studied Buddhism through Martial Arts, bit rejected the culture and nature of Buddhism today with states and such, I am still a student of Buddha and the Messiahs and Avatars of the religions of the world. I became a Baha'i and remain a Baha'i conditionally, because in reality I do not know. My belief in God is conditional and reflects my view that IF there is a God God is a universal 'Source that cannot be defined from the human perspective. The Baha'i Faith came the closest to a more universal religion. Science I have developed the philosophy of Universalism.(Not UU). This philosophy proposes a critical assessment of all possible beliefs including ones own ased on universal criteria.

I consider science to be reliable to understand the nature of our physical existence through
methodological Naturalism and subject to change when new information is a vailabl4,

I would not be fervently devoted to anything subjective including any religious beliefs,

 

[Augustus]

Always was and still am an atheist.

 

[osgart]

I'm independently religious or spiritual now and was raised first in Catholicism, then later in Independent Baptist Christianity. I wasted a lot of time dealing with Christianity, but I can never tell myself there are no inherent purposes in existence though no grande purpose seems to exist.

 

[Vee]

Were you raised with a religion as a child? Have you retained that worldview as an adult, or has it changed? Are you part of another religion, or no religion?

For those of you raised non-religious, same question. Are you still non- religious, or are you part of a religion now?

I was raised without a religion, and became a Christian as an adult.

 

[metis]

Could you explain what you mean by being ‘more compatible philosophically with the Hindu approach?’

I believe that God [or Gods] is/are so much "bigger" that we could not fully understand Him/Them. Thus, I tend to take Spinoza's viewpoint, echoed by Eistein, namely that God is likely "Nature", the latter used in the broadest sense of the term.

There's much more that I could say, but let me stop here. If you have any more questions, IL'll try and answer them for you. However, I have far more questions than I do answers.

Have you met many Catholics who feel the same?

Ya, some. The monk Thomas Merton went in this direction, but there are quite a few others as well.

 

[Orbit]

I was baptized Presbyterian as a child, attended Southern Baptist and non-denominational churches as a teen, and identified as a Presbyterian until I was in my early 50s. Then it was straight to atheism with an affinity for Hindu advaita vedanta philopsophy.