RE: How religious or nonreligious is your family?
December 15, 2016 at 8:43 pm
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2016 at 8:44 pm by AceBoogie.)
My grandparents are barely religious at all. My grandfather is certainly a deist. He says he absolutely believes that something created the universe but certainly does not believe any of the stories in the Bible or anything like that. He is very much a logical thinker and accepts things like evolution and adaptation because he thinks they make sense, though I'm not sure how much he's really looked into Darwin's Theory of Evolution to be honest. My grandmother identifies as a Protestant but after many conversations with her on the topic I've realized she is actually just a deist like my grandfather and also does not believe any of the stories in the bible or that Jesus even existed.
My parents are both religious... my dad considers himself a Christian, even though he lives by none of the supposed "Christian values." To be clear I'm speaking of the values which Christians themselves will claim represent what a true Christian is supposed to be. My dad drinks - a lot. Smokes a pack of cigarettes a day, swears, is racist as all hell and never goes to church. So yea pretty much like a shit load of other Christians in America. He lives nothing like how a Christian is supposed to live but if you bring up religion he starts reciting all this shit he probably heard on the 700 Club or something. My mom is the same way she doesn't go to church and while she doesn't drink or anything like that you would never know she was a Christian unless you brought it up to her.
My brothers are both weak theists... they believe in god and jesus and stuff but don't really attend church or anything.
My grandparents find it interesting that I'm a Satanist and my parents find it horrifying, which is hilarious to me. My brothers think I'm crazy for reasons beside my choice in being a Satanist though I'm sure that doesn't help. I'm actually pretty sure that both of my older brothers are like scared of me which is funny.
I actually got my grandma saying "Hail Satan!" before which was hysterical
edit: Beyond that I'm not sure at all about my extended family as I've never really brought the topic up with them. For the most part though, I suppose my family could be considered mildly religious.
My parents are both religious... my dad considers himself a Christian, even though he lives by none of the supposed "Christian values." To be clear I'm speaking of the values which Christians themselves will claim represent what a true Christian is supposed to be. My dad drinks - a lot. Smokes a pack of cigarettes a day, swears, is racist as all hell and never goes to church. So yea pretty much like a shit load of other Christians in America. He lives nothing like how a Christian is supposed to live but if you bring up religion he starts reciting all this shit he probably heard on the 700 Club or something. My mom is the same way she doesn't go to church and while she doesn't drink or anything like that you would never know she was a Christian unless you brought it up to her.
My brothers are both weak theists... they believe in god and jesus and stuff but don't really attend church or anything.
My grandparents find it interesting that I'm a Satanist and my parents find it horrifying, which is hilarious to me. My brothers think I'm crazy for reasons beside my choice in being a Satanist though I'm sure that doesn't help. I'm actually pretty sure that both of my older brothers are like scared of me which is funny.
I actually got my grandma saying "Hail Satan!" before which was hysterical
edit: Beyond that I'm not sure at all about my extended family as I've never really brought the topic up with them. For the most part though, I suppose my family could be considered mildly religious.
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It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
