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What religion you were raised with?

I was brought into this world within the Catholic Church, as were millions of Germans.
 
Protestant lutheran.
 
I was raised an protestant. Lutheran for my young years and eventually pentecostalism later.

I believed Jesus was a holy man (God) and that he resurrected.

A merciful god along with fun stories (the typical bible ones) was good for my wellbeing. It gave me a sense that God is merciful and forgiving, and that my deeds would surely lead me to hell or heaven.

I used to go to the church as well; I doubted the holiness of say, Jesus but do not doubt that the stories were true if not somewhat overblownn (Moses split the sea). It gave me a sense of community.

What brought me out was the fact that Christianity itself, concerned with a small area (middle east) of culture and people. Moreover, if you actually read the bible you'd see some of the stories are conflicting of what you've been told in the cartoon films made for kids.

Nowadays I'm agonistic but I do not deny the validity of religions, but acknowledge that religions are frequently used as a tool of selective interpretation and control.
orthodox christian now agnostic
 
I was raised an protestant.
Get Protestant pilled YEOOO.
Nah but I wasn’t raised Christian but my family had ‘Christian values’
 
Pentecostal, and still am. Receive the Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues and be baptised by full emersion is the way to heaven, as stated in the bible.
 
ordtdox christian
 
this. low IQ curry nigger sunni islam. i also noticed shias were more mogger on average. ogre
I am not indian fortunately and I also have defected from the religion a long time ago
 
Raised christian became atheist at like 10
 
Christianity, now a norse pagan
 
Catholicism, i later was a protestant for a while as a teen and i later became an atheist at age 17.
 
My family's Christian but I was raised with only slight Christian values
 
my family is buddhist, but i never believed.
 
I was born and raised as a Catholic, eventually losing my faith as I grew up.
I don't take religion seriously anymore and I consider myself to be agnostic.
 
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Christianity. Nondenominational.
 
Was raised in a family who went to church once a year , they never brought up God or anything similar , so I grew up as a petty atheist and then later , in my teenage years , got into theology
 
Muslim, I never was convinced of anything beyond the belief of a single god so I can't really say I'm a full practicing Muslim. I still keep an open mind about religion, mostly because I don't know where else to place what little hope I have left in life.
 
Moreover, if you actually read the bible you'd see some of the stories are conflicting of what you've been told in the cartoon films made for kids
lol
 
I grew up in non religios family
 
At first, none. However, my mother did instill belief in God (Judaism) early on in my life, but she did not follow any of the principles of Judaism at the time.

Eventually her religious conviction did strengthen, as she had a crisis following the passing of my grandfather, and that led to her imposing religious rules that I despised upon me—thus, leading to some of my antitheist attitudes at the time, as I never bought that nonsense.
Man, it seems to me that people fall for the false promises of religion in crises, when they have lost someone, when they are at a personal low in their lives or with little self control.

It's as if weak people are drawn to it.

Not trying to insult your mother. I mean weak in the psychological sense, weakened morally or whatever you want to call it.
 
Man, it seems to me that people fall for the false promises of religion in crises, when they have lost someone, when they are at a personal low in their lives or with little self control.

It's as if weak people are drawn to it.

Not trying to insult your mother. I mean weak in the psychological sense, weakened morally or whatever you want to call it.
I noticed that as well; many people often resort to coping with a higher power when they face major hardships, as they are seemingly incapable of facing reality as it is. This is definitely a characteristic of people who are weak, so I wouldn't disagree with you there, as I can personally attest that my mom is quite weak psychologically — simply judging from her behavior throughout my life. The real problem is that she has forced this belief upon me as well, particularly after raising me to a certain point in a completely different way. It's completely ridiculous to impose your will upon others without them truly believing in it in the first place.

Religion is basically a coping mechanism for losers. You can tell who’s mentally weak by how desperate they are to feel that their life “means something” through some imaginary higher power, though I am not completely opposed to it, and it's probably a net positive for society — the only problem is that in today's age and often in the past, it was simply used to make people subservient, and lead them to believe in divine justice that will right all the injustices and unfairness that occurred in the world. This also makes people prone to inaction, as they simply go to sleep at night believing that all the people who commit wrongdoings will eventually be punished by God.
 
I noticed that as well; many people often resort to coping with a higher power when they face major hardships, as they are seemingly incapable of facing reality as it is. This is definitely a characteristic of people who are weak, so I wouldn't disagree with you there, as I can personally attest that my mom is quite weak psychologically — simply judging from her behavior throughout my life. The real problem is that she has forced this belief upon me as well, particularly after raising me to a certain point in a completely different way. It's completely ridiculous to impose your will upon others without them truly believing in it in the first place.

Religion is basically a coping mechanism for losers. You can tell who’s mentally weak by how desperate they are to feel that their life “means something” through some imaginary higher power, though I am not completely opposed to it, and it's probably a net positive for society — the only problem is that in today's age and often in the past, it was simply used to make people subservient, and lead them to believe in divine justice that will right all the injustices and unfairness that occurred in the world. This also makes people prone to inaction, as they simply go to sleep at night believing that all the people who commit wrongdoings will eventually be punished by God.
If you’re weak there’s not much you CAN do either

Strong people can use religion to wage holy war or something and give ‘concessions’ to the weak ‘in order to please God’
 
I noticed that as well; many people often resort to coping with a higher power when they face major hardships, as they are seemingly incapable of facing reality as it is. This is definitely a characteristic of people who are weak, so I wouldn't disagree with you there, as I can personally attest that my mom is quite weak psychologically — simply judging from her behavior throughout my life. The real problem is that she has forced this belief upon me as well, particularly after raising me to a certain point in a completely different way. It's completely ridiculous to impose your will upon others without them truly believing in it in the first place.

Religion is basically a coping mechanism for losers. You can tell who’s mentally weak by how desperate they are to feel that their life “means something” through some imaginary higher power, though I am not completely opposed to it, and it's probably a net positive for society — the only problem is that in today's age and often in the past, it was simply used to make people subservient, and lead them to believe in divine justice that will right all the injustices and unfairness that occurred in the world. This also makes people prone to inaction, as they simply go to sleep at night believing that all the people who commit wrongdoings will eventually be punished by God.
Tell me about it.
I was raised by a would be catholic, my father, and a staunch Jehovah' Witness, my mother.

At least my mother isn't a radical like one of my aunts.
I wasn't forced into it, but she too keeps claiming that it is not up to us to restore goodness in the world with the use of violence but up to god.
Only god has the right to kill bad people. We do not have the right to take lives.

I always explain to her that evil can only flourish if good people refuse to act.
 
Christianity, went to Church a couple of times as a child. One of the saddest things I've seen that shows the kind of mindset religiouscucks have is when a traveling prayer group visited our church, touched our foreheads and prayed for each one of us. They claimed to perform miracles such as remove diseases; I asked them to pray for me as well.

Most of the churchgoers also received prayers. All that the group asked for in return was for us to buy their merchandise to help support them. Not one of us helped them, we just took our blessings and left. I was a child with no money at the time but the adults could have helped them.
 
Shia Islam now agnostic
 
I was raised an protestant. Lutheran for my young years and eventually pentecostalism later.

I believed Jesus was a holy man (God) and that he resurrected.

A merciful god along with fun stories (the typical bible ones) was good for my wellbeing. It gave me a sense that God is merciful and forgiving, and that my deeds would surely lead me to hell or heaven.

I used to go to the church as well; I doubted the holiness of say, Jesus but do not doubt that the stories were true if not somewhat overblownn (Moses split the sea). It gave me a sense of community.

What brought me out was the fact that Christianity itself, concerned with a small area (middle east) of culture and people. Moreover, if you actually read the bible you'd see some of the stories are conflicting of what you've been told in the cartoon films made for kids.

Nowadays I'm agonistic but I do not deny the validity of religions, but acknowledge that religions are frequently used as a tool of selective interpretation and control.

I was raised a Jewish.
But i a draft for a new religion, here (would be glad to hear your opinion):
 
oncerned with a small area (middle east) of culture and people
the jews of back then arent the jews of now
gods people became the church after jesus
jews were one sect who didnt accept him and spread to mesopotamia initially but spread afterwars across the world after the arabs came in there
 
I was raised an protestant. Lutheran for my young years and eventually pentecostalism later.

I believed Jesus was a holy man (God) and that he resurrected.

A merciful god along with fun stories (the typical bible ones) was good for my wellbeing. It gave me a sense that God is merciful and forgiving, and that my deeds would surely lead me to hell or heaven.

I used to go to the church as well; I doubted the holiness of say, Jesus but do not doubt that the stories were true if not somewhat overblownn (Moses split the sea). It gave me a sense of community.

What brought me out was the fact that Christianity itself, concerned with a small area (middle east) of culture and people. Moreover, if you actually read the bible you'd see some of the stories are conflicting of what you've been told in the cartoon films made for kids.

Nowadays I'm agonistic but I do not deny the validity of religions, but acknowledge that religions are frequently used as a tool of selective interpretation and control.
Yazidi/Zoroastrian, now I’m a deist
 
didn't really discuss religion at home, grew up mostly atheist even though we have icons at home. tried getting into orthodoxy but dropped it pretty quickly.
 

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