How religious or nonreligious is your family?

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None of my parents was religious... I'd say my dad is a bit spiritual, but he keeps it to himself.
I did grow up with my dad, only, as they got divorced quite early on...

I only went to mass (this is Portugal, so catholic was the only flavor available) with my mum's mum... she was always trying to pour the kool aid down my throat... but only rarely did she get a chance... so it never stuck.

Nowadays, the wife is catholic... going to mass every Sunday... I stay home. Seems like a nice arrangement.
But a few years ago, she decided to go deeper and joined the ranks of Opus Dei... which changed some things... not for the best, mind you.

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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.  

I adore going into the different catholic cathedrals just to look at them. They are so pretty. I reckon when you get to take people's money and aren't taxed you have some to spare to really go all out in the architecture lol

oh.... every vacation, every single one, we'd drive around some region of the country. Every small village has a church and my dad would insist on going to see it.
I must say, I've seen quite a few and can easily admire the architecture and sculptures and paintings and stuff. In Portugal, I can say if they were built in the 17th, 18th, 19th or 20th centuries. Older are a bit trickier to place exactly, but they tend to have a date written down somewhere.
20th century church architecture sucks!
18th century is where the good stuff is... and when many got rebuilt/renovated.
Come to Portugal, visit the hundreds of churches we have! They're all different (but similar).