How religious or nonreligious is your family?

[mlmooney89]

My family was religious growing up in kind of a mandatory way. We said prayer before meals in a forced manner and they shipped me off to bible studies one summer but that was really all we did but we considered ourselves Christian. When I was a teenager my step dad got it in his head that we should suddenly start going to church. I had already decided that I was atheist but since we weren't really religious I hadn't felt the need to discuss it until being forced to go to church. I went once. I cried so much I ended up being excused. Then my step dad thought it was funny to make fun of me by saying I couldn't go into the church for fear of my feet catching fire. He soon lost interest in church as well when it was more effort to get everyone to go than to just watch TV.

After my family fell apart when I was 17 everyone pretty much went atheist. My sister tends to date really religious guys and is really supportive of their religions but I doubt whether she really believes it. My husband is Roman Catholic but he is so laid back he doesn't do much with it. He doesn't follow many of their rules but he wears the St Anthony pendant (his patron saint) literally all the time, prays to himself over food, and will go to the church when he has a hard call while on the ambulance. He and I keep to ourselves about religion.