How religious or nonreligious is your family?

[Divinity]

Not very religious. I've never been to a church, and neither has any of my kids. I think my dad used to go, when he was still alive, but only when he was young. I never even read the damn bible until a few years ago.

[Thumpalumpacus]

My mom is agnostic theist. Her husband is an atheist. My sister is born-again Christian, denomination unknown to me. My favorite cousin and her husband are both agnostic atheist (that's not why they're my favorites). My other cousins are god-fearin' Southern Baptists. Dreary, dreary stuff.

[Mr Greene]

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

Back when the Cathedrals were being built it was a means of showing off the wealth and power of the incumbent bishop. In England that applies to the Cathedrals built between 1066 and 1536, then the protestants arrived and started defacing them, removing all the decoration, smashing the statues and applying whitewash.
Some of the churches are now having the whitewash removed to reveal frescoes underneath.

[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.

[chimp3]

My parents are Pentacostal. They switched from Catholicism when I was a teen. One brother is Pentecostal and one a deacon in the Baptist church.  My first wife was a hippy and was a hippy spiritual type and so is our daughter. I was too when we were married. My son is an atheist (He says he is a "Bigger atheist" than me. OK.) My second wife is Pentecostal all the way (We are divorced but not for religious reasons). Our daughter is also Pentecostal. My parents brothers and sisters are still mostly Catholic. But I think one of my Uncles is atheist , hard to tell ...He has been fucking with my head since I was a kid.....Great chess player, master strategist..He might be trying to rope me into some kind of philosophical entanglement..would not put it past him.

[Whateverist]

Some sort of trauma? It sounds like my early memory, I fell off a ledge when I was a kid and everything before that is a jumbled blur.

No.  Just a stupid brain.

Me too.  But then for me trauma is a real possibility, and then there was all that experimenting with mind altering drugs.  Oh well, memories just make everything seem repetitive as we get older unless people get lucky like us.

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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.

Is that really a thing?  I mean outside of certain novels?  Is she into little whips and such?

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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

Back when the Cathedrals were being built it was a means of showing off the wealth and power of the incumbent bishop. In England that applies to the Cathedrals built between 1066 and 1536, then the protestants arrived and started defacing them, removing all the decoration, smashing the statues and applying whitewash.
Some of the churches are now having the whitewash removed to reveal frescoes underneath.

Meh.  Most of the great estate gardens were also built on the backs of an exploited working class.  May as well enjoy the gardens and the stained glass windows anyhow, now that so much misery has paid for them.

[CapnAwesome]

To answer the OPs question, I don't know. We never even talked about it.

Then you do know........

[comet]

My mom is very religious. I did'nt believe since elementary school.

Of course my parents were normal crazy and understood their job.

[NuclearEnergy]

My family is fairly religious. They're Mormon. However, my parents have actually become more and more tolerant over the years and are truly wonderful people.

[paulpablo]

6 out of 10.

0 Being the opinion that religious people should be killed and that church and mosque massacres are a good thing.

10 being the opinion that non religious people should be killed and that Jesus is going to come down and help us kill them one day.