Did your parents push religion?

If they did, how did you respond?

 

My parents did, and I hated it. I did everything I could to get out of going to services and youth group. I just didn't feel like I fit in.

I was such a little heathen.

Funny thing is though, my mother was raised in a strict religious fashion. Now she's into wicca and druidism. So I guess she kind of rebelled afterall, huh?

 

no, my parents rejected god, luckily.

 

i ignored it

 

No, but I did have to go to a catholic school

 

I'd say that's pushing religion....

 

I went along with it so I wouldn't get hit !!!

Peqace

 

How well did that go for you?

Relayer, I do agree with Ganja ; that kind of is pushing religion.

HCM, how do you feel about religion these days?

Silverhippy, were you Catholic?

 

not really. i've known catholics, protestants, atheists, even hindus who have gone to catholic school, sent by their parents which held the same ideas.

catholic school, at least the ones friends of mine have gone to, are not just for catholics and only spend a little time dealing with religion. most people send their kids there for discipline or for higher educational standards and expectations than can be found in public schooling.

anyway, i was raised presbyterian, but my parents were very open minded about the possibility of other faiths having something to them. as a kid i was intensely fascinated by religions and read all i could about as many as i could.

by sophomore year in highschool i stopped going to my parents' church regularly as i felt it was not at all what i needed, though i respected the pastor and the congregation for the most part.

i am skeptical that i could ever find an organized religion which really spoke to me on all levels and which i could really believe in. i think religious experience must be center stage for any worthwhile religion, and one-sided prayer and a weekly social gathering does not do it for me.

 

A bit. They didn't insist that I go to church. I did the confirmation thing for my grandmother, because it made her happy, but I have never in my life believed.

 

it went quite well

 

TheCacaFarter,

Nope. No parents so, no parents pushing religion.

 

Not really, around here your go to school where your taxes go. So his parents supported the catholic school system, therefore he had to go there.

 

Which is kind of ridiculous in my eyes. I've known a few people to attend Catholic school and half of them spent more time getting high and causing trouble than just about anybody I knew.....

 

No...they didn't even really go to church with me once we moved here when I was 8. Which I find really odd and kind of funny, since we moved to the town that our church is located in, lol. My grandparents were much more religious than my parents. But when I denounced the church and Christianity, my parents were completely cool with it, very understanding. But I went to church almost every Sunday until I was 14 with my grandparents.

 

one guy i know is stuck in a chair for life because he jumped from the roof of his school. i knew a few other people who went to that school. its got a reputation for the stress REALLY getting to people. and yes, lots of drugs.

 

My mother did. I had no choice but to accept it. Strikely catholic raised, everyone on my mom and dads side of the family was raised that way.

I'm ok with it now, but at the time I hated it. I don't believe everything that the Catholic faith teaches, or preaches, but I don't think that EVERYTHING about it is complete and total bullshit either.

 

I have a really difficult time with organized religion. I guess at this point in time you could best describe me as someone more into paganism than anything else.

 

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You told your parents that?

My parents NEVER talked religion with me as a kid. Ever. I went to church a few times with the grandparents. Never understood most of it since I'd never been briefed.

Only my Grandmother would talk to me about God, and only on occasion. By then I was 13 and had gone so long without ever being told about God or the bible that it was nothing more than hodge-podge to me.