My parents divorced when I was three, so I was raised Lutheran (my mom's side) but attended Catholic mass when visiting relatives on my father's side. Dad only attended his local Catholic church now and again because he was barred from receiving communion due to the divorce, as I recall.
I lost any vestige of faith in Christianity young, so I doubt my "religious background" will prove useful or instructive. However, it might say something about the children of divorced parents. It's hard to take an institution or its representatives seriously when they make outrageous claims that I'm supposed to take on faith when my everyday life furnished plenty of examples of the adults closest to me (people whose love and concern for me was never in doubt) having feet of clay. Skepticism came easily to me.
I lost any vestige of faith in Christianity young, so I doubt my "religious background" will prove useful or instructive. However, it might say something about the children of divorced parents. It's hard to take an institution or its representatives seriously when they make outrageous claims that I'm supposed to take on faith when my everyday life furnished plenty of examples of the adults closest to me (people whose love and concern for me was never in doubt) having feet of clay. Skepticism came easily to me.
