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Poll: Were you, or were you raised Catholic before becoming an atheist?
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How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
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How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
How many of the members that are atheist were Catholic or raised in a Catholic home and/or went to a Catholic School?

Looking at the introductions and deconversion stories it seems that a lot of atheists are atheists that used to be catholic or have a catholic upbringing, I'd like to see some numbers on that.
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#2
RE: How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
For your enquiry I can only state that the male 'parental figure' was a pedophilic, abusive cataholic.

Cheers leo
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#3
RE: How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
My gran is catholic, and she was always trying to push her views on me, but even as an infant I was having none of it Tongue
But I went to a protestant school, which wasn't necessarily a faith school, we just had collective worship... Which, of course, I hated... and even got in trouble for not praying, that happened almost every day.

But yeh, I said no...
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RE: How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
My upbringing was "culturally catholic"...does that count? lol.
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RE: How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
I was never actually a Catholic (I was raised Lutheran), but I did end up going to a Catholic high school. It was there that I ended up coming out as an atheist. For what it's worth, the teachers did end up as being surprisingly accepting of this fact by my Junior year.
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RE: How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
(September 2, 2011 at 9:34 am)Rhythm Wrote: My upbringing was "culturally catholic"...does that count? lol.

Yes
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RE: How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
I went to the religious indoctrination bullshit as a kid. Had communion, got confirmed. And I did it because I was told to. After confirmation I never went to church again. Been 38 years and counting! Fortunately, my parents weren't churchgoers and I didn't volunteer to go. Not because I didn't believe, but because I found church services to be so damn boring!
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RE: How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
(September 2, 2011 at 10:20 am)Thor Wrote: I went to the religious indoctrination bullshit as a kid. Had communion, got confirmed. And I did it because I was told to. After confirmation I never went to church again. Been 38 years and counting! Fortunately, my parents weren't churchgoers and I didn't volunteer to go. Not because I didn't believe, but because I found church services to be so damn boring!

I was pretty much the same, but was also a member of the church choir, which was interesting since I didn't believe.
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#9
RE: How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
As far as I'm aware (and I'm the family genealogist), nobody in our family is Catholic.
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RE: How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
(September 2, 2011 at 10:22 am)leo-rcc Wrote: I was pretty much the same, but was also a member of the church choir, which was interesting since I didn't believe.

Now that's interesting! How could you sing praises to a being you don't believe exists?

At one point I actually asked about becoming an altar boy. I'm glad I never followed through on it.
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.

God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
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