How religious or nonreligious is your family?

[FatAndFaithless]

My mom's English, so she was Anglican by name and atheist in practice. My dad's side of the family is a giant German Catholic clan (he was 1 of 8, his dad was 1 of 10). My brother and I moved around to all sorts of different countries growing up. Whenever we were in the US, my dad sent us to Sunday school and took us to mass, although my brother and I never really cared about either. I suppose I was Catholic by association. Outside of the US my dad tried to teach us the kiddie bible stories and the prayers and all that, but eventually though "fuck it, it's too much trouble and not worth it,' and stopped all that, including going to church himself. As I got older and more comfortable with my atheism, he revealed that he never really believed any of the supernatural stuff, but it was such a strong part of his family culture that he felt like he had to make an attempt with my brother and me. It's still kind of weird though, whenever we travel nowadays and end up in some Catholic church (we both love the architecture) he still habitually does the sign of the cross and dips his fingers in the holy water, etc. I asked him about that in specific and he said (apparently) jokingly that he felt like something bad would happen if he didn't.

Nobody on my mom's side (all in England) are religious in the least. All of my dad's brothers are religious, and none of his 4 sisters are (coincidentally, they were some of the first in our family to go to college in America).