Who's your daddy?

[abaris]

I was even Joseph in the nativity play! But to me it was obvious even then that it was all just some weird story, and I was struggling to understand why some people were taking it seriously. That's the benefit of an un-indoctrinated mind.

Btw, I love it that he's called "nutritor domini", which is a less than impressive title, since it only means he fed that brat.

[Cato]

We attended Atonement Lutheran when I was in my teens.  I went through confirmation classes there.  For those not in the know, confirmation is a ceremony in which you confirm your baptism as a knowing adult.  The Catholics do it early during grade school.  The Lutherans do it in the mid teens.  

The age of discretion is typically uniform around the age of seven, coinciding with First Communion. There is actually variability in the timing of the confirmation ritual since individual diocese can dictate when this happens and what requirements are to be met. I was not allowed to be confirmed until at least the 8th grade and had to complete Catechism. I believe only a handful of U.S. diocese have instituted confirmation at a younger age.

[Faith No More]

Like I said in the OP, belief is not necessary, but the heavy exposure is what we are looking for.  I think church every sunday counts.

The purpose of the poll and the thread is to show the christians that we have been there and done that.  They seem to think that we are talking out our ass.  Some have commented often that "if you guys had only ...". Well. we have heard all their cute little Sunday church stories and whether or not we believed at the time, the stories only pushed us away. (Especially when we started asking questions in public   )

Fair enough, but that's more about whether or not Christianity was given a fair try. I thinking asking if someone was ever a Christian pertains to whether or that person believed in Christianity beyond the age of reason. Perhaps I should have read the OP more carefully.

Still, despite the fact that I went to church every Sunday, I don't consider myself very educated on Christianity. I remember the basics like salvation and the resurrection, but the only bible verse I know is John 3:16. None of what was being taught at Sunday school really sunk in, because I was too busy trying to figure out why the stories I was being fed seemed fishy. By the time I was 12, I realized it was bogus enough that I had completely tuned it all out.

I think it's a bit of a stretch to consider me ever having been a Christian.

[IATIA]

Fair enough, but that's more about whether or not Christianity was given a fair try.  I thinking asking if someone was ever a Christian pertains to whether or that person believed in Christianity beyond the age of reason.

Beyond the age of reason is a good point. I do not think though that any of us ever really believed at any time beyond the age of reason. However, most of us were exposed enough to be able to make a rational decision which really is the point of the poll.

Granted the poll questions are short without elaboration, but I assumed as the thread went on that the full point would appear. The intent was not to suggest that any of us were 'real' christians, just raised in an environment of awareness of the christian world and the babble-book.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Much like Cato, I was raised nominally Christian.  I was required to go to Mass and Sunday school, learn my catechism, and so forth.  Mum was fairly devout, Da was an unabashed free-thinker who viewed the church more as social networking than anything else.

But neither of my parents 'pushed' us kids into religion. 

Boru