Have you changed from the religion that you were born into?

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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It strikes me that many change due to coming from a dysfunctional family or as part of a teenage rebellion. Me? It was for both of the aforementioned. And you?
 

NO I have never changed, but then I was born into a Mixed religious family. My mother was a staunch Catholic and my father was a Calvinist. She felt she did wrong in marrying him, and they fought about religion their whole married life..so although I was sent to Sunday school as a child, I have never followed an organised religion.
 
I was born into the Episcopalian religion, but married a Methodist girl. We had one Pastor from each church perform the service, which was not unusual for that time era. I joined my wife's church when the daughter (our first child) was born.
 

Ahhh, yes, Sunday school, I was sent,too, but it didn't take in my case either...
 
I was raised strict Catholic. My mom converted to marry my dad although she rarely went to church. I enjoyed church as a kid, but was forced to continue to go to church and catechism class as a teenager which I did not want to do. Got married at 18 and that was the end of that. I have been to mass quite a few times since but I'm not a Christian. My husband is Catholic. He says I'm genetically Catholic :rolleyes: but doesn't care that I don't go to mass with him.

I swore I'd never force religion on my kids like it was on me, and I didn't.

I've researched all the different types of belief systems out of curiosity and I was a 'Celtic Pagan' for years. Then I explored Buddhism. I am unlabeled but I do lean toward Zen Buddhism and try to practice it. I'm not really an atheist but I think many of us believe in a higher power as it's comforting. It's nice to think of our deceased loved ones as being in some lovely heaven looking down on us.
 
My mother was a Wesleyan Methodist and married my father a Scottish Presbyterian in a Church of England Church, 2 brothers were baptised Wesleyan Methodist another brother and myself were baptised in the Church of England.............religion was never spoken about in our family home and we had free choice as to whether we went to Sunday school or not.
 
Well, of course not, you were heathens. So, I should have said that if a wife was following a traditional religion...
 
You are definitely a heathen by telling us of your religious (lack of) journey you fit the definition perfectly...
 
You might think about repenting while you can and getting good with the Christian God. Come to think of it, maybe I should, too, as my days run out...:D
 
I was born into the Lutheran faith... Missouri synod.. It was forced on me from the age of 4 until 18 when I married a Baptist. I didn't follow his religion... neither did he I might add. In later years I tried another denomination of Lutheran. (American Lutheran).... then Methodist.... I toyed with Universal Unitarian.. Now I do not practice a particular denomination. My agnosticism always gets in the way.
 
I was a was born a Protestant, became an agnostic, moved on to be an agnostic, then a pantheist/hedonist (mostly the latter these days) but may have a deathbed conversion just to play it safe, and I recommend the same for all of you, my fellow heathens...
 
Ralphy1 said:
I was a was born a Protestant, became an agnostic, moved on to be an agnostic, then a pantheist/hedonist (mostly the latter these days) but may have a deathbed conversion just to play it safe, and I recommend the same for all of you, my fellow heathens...
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Haha! You're just a troublemaker! I'm a hedonist as well. :D
 
Troublemaker? No way, just telling it like it is or, perhaps, should be...:cool:
 
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