How popular are secular households?

[GrandizerII]

Definitely semi-religious.

[SteelCurtain]

Religious.

We went to church every Sunday, fellowship every Wednesday. Grace every meal. I don't know how I came to be a natural skeptic, maybe it was because I noticed so early on that my mother didn't really question or approach many things with reasoning and rationality, and that was really off putting. My dad is much less religious than my mother, and he was away in the Navy for most of my young childhood, he retired when I was an adolescent and really balanced my mother out. They still are very religious. Although it is funny to see the spread of my siblings. My sister is as fundie as you can get, homeschooling, was on board with quiverfull for a minute, creationist, flirted with anti-vaxxer shit, climate denier, etc. My little brother is a liberal Christian. The earth is old, evolution is a fact, church most weeks but if something else is going on, maybe not.

But I get along well with all of them.

[JesusHChrist]

I voted secular, even though my dad is nominally a Catholic, he wouldn't know transubstantiation if it bit him on the leg. We went to church for Christmas and Easter, usually with the cajoling "you can spend at least one day with the Lord!"

Afterwards, nothing was said of the mass, concepts, praying or anything religious at all. The grandparents paid to send me to weekend catechism for a short while. I tuned it out and eventually stopped going. It was boring as hell.

I thought the whole Catholic mass was bizarre - like something from the 1st century. I could have been worshiping Zeus or Apollo. Freaky with the chants, incense, kneeling, bells ringing and what not.

Weird looking back on it. Why bother if you are only going to go twice a year and never even discuss anything religious? Probably dodged a bullet though. Could have been rough if the parents had pushed.

[Jackalope]

My upbringing was decidedly secular - so much so that I don't know exactly where either of my parents really stand on faith. I don't think either gives it much thought.

I got into xtianity on my own when I was in my teens.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

My dad was ever so slightly religious and my mom is an atheist. Never really discussed religion with either of them to be honest.

Luckily my parents were both keen to educate me on how to think and not what to think, meaning that I actually hold very different opinions to them on almost everything regarding politics, economics etc.

I'm also lucky to live in a country where education in the sciences and the arts is given primacy, although naturally it depends on where you are.

[abaris]

Church at Easter and Christmas. That was about it. Later on my parents went to church every sunday, but more because they found friends there than some real spiritual inspiration. It didn't matter to me, since I was in my late teens then anyway and didn't have to go. My childhood was more influenced by my brother, who's 15 years my senior and partied through the late 60ies and early 70ies. I'm sure that rock and beat music had much more of an influence on my growing up than religion. The Stones for example were with me all my life, which is more than can be said about any religious dogma. As a group, they're one year older than me after all.

[Whateverist]

My upbringing was decidedly secular - so much so that I don't know exactly where either of my parents really stand on faith. I don't think either gives it much thought.

I got into xtianity on my own when I was in my teens.

I wonder if, looking back, you think a purely secular upbringing leaves one open to woo and religion. We raised my stepson in a purely secular home but his biological dad very woo. He is too. He goes to Brazil regularly to meet with the high teacher of his sect, "John of God". He takes out a pendulum to help him to decide things. I can talk to him about some of it but he gets that I'm not reachable by it and hasn't pushed in quite a while.

[Faith No More]

I don't know what to vote. We attended church every Sunday, but religion wasn't really a part of the dynamic of my family, never said grace, etc., so to me, that's semi-religious. I think you need more categories.

I had a very similar situation. I was taken to church every Sunday, but saying religion wasn't really a part of the dynamic of my family would be an understatement. Religion or god was never mentioned outside of church, and my parents had such a heavy focus on science that I was specifically told that if science and the bible contradicted, science was correct. My parents never discussed their beliefs specifically, and I was never even certain my parents were actually Christian until I asked them.

Still, I think I can count the number of times we missed church in the fifteen years my parents made me attend on one hand.

[Vox Populi]

When I was a child there was more religious tones but as we reached about 10 things kind of fell apart (for the good). My family came to the conclusion that it was best for my sister and I to come to our own conclusion.

When I reached about 13, I started really investigating a lot of Churches and converted to Mormonism. At around 16 left and studied many more religions, flopping around till about 19 then became a more secular person. Now at age 25, I believe all those years of studying were well worth it! If I didn't question or investigate them then, I would probably be so ignorant and follow whatever came my way or influenced by friends.

So... I would say a secular household! Most friends of mine and from my own observation (anyways) that more and more families are raising there families in secular household but there is still a big religious families out there! It's best to let your children decide what they want to believe. Not only is it more healthy but I believe it grows a stronger family. There will always be a black sheep of the family that strays from the religious family which can cause tension an hurt among the nuclear family.

Once the children come to there own conclusion and its there private beliefs then no one in the family cares (in secular households). There is a few incident's with many cults that try to break up non-believers still out there but for the most part like I said earlier its best for each individual to come to there own conclusion while also presenting all the facts.

[Mr Greene]

Secular;
My parents were/are CofE but never attended church, never said grace, never had prayers etc.
I was sent to a Catholic primary school and had to get christened for that.
Since I left there religion had no effect on my life till Uni when one of my house mates turned out to be a raving nut-job whose idea of cleaning was to pin a palm cross to the wall and mumble something about the landlord being a priest... (Just don't ask...)

I have a son (7 months) and stepdaughter (10 yrs) my partner is rather more anti-theist than me and encourages her to troll the JW stand at the market.
I have no intention of allowing my son to be indoctrinated by any church...