RE: How religious or nonreligious is your family?
December 16, 2016 at 8:21 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2016 at 8:22 pm by Regina.)
We have a range
My Dad's family are Maltese Catholics and they are practicing, with "moderately" conservative views on things. It's more in a comical way though, like my Dad suddenly realising on his 26th birthday that my grandparents had only just had their 25th wedding anniversary. All airs and graces, some comical hypocrisy when you dig a little deeper.
My mother's side are very irreligious. I wouldn't call them outright atheists, because to me "atheist" is a politically charged term, it's active. They're just very passively irreligious, the kind of people who might tick "Protestant" on the census out of tradition, but it plays absolutely no part in their daily life.
My Dad's family are Maltese Catholics and they are practicing, with "moderately" conservative views on things. It's more in a comical way though, like my Dad suddenly realising on his 26th birthday that my grandparents had only just had their 25th wedding anniversary. All airs and graces, some comical hypocrisy when you dig a little deeper.
My mother's side are very irreligious. I wouldn't call them outright atheists, because to me "atheist" is a politically charged term, it's active. They're just very passively irreligious, the kind of people who might tick "Protestant" on the census out of tradition, but it plays absolutely no part in their daily life.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
