Growing up did you attend religious services regularly?
For example going to church on most Sundays, or similar.
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My father was raised a practicing Catholic, but my entire time growing up we never went to church. I didn't even know he was raised that way.
I think my maternal grandmother took me to her (non Catholic) church once or twice, and I didn't like it.
After I left home, he apparently decided on it again, and made all my half sibs go every week.
I have no idea what was going on in his alcoholic brain.
@futurebird I put the last one but I never voluntarily went to church and my mum didn't take me, only for baptism at the expectation of some family. Religious stuff at school, but was never raised to believe anything. Parents said make up your mind and it never offered anything I needed.
Star Trek (🖖, rest in power, my captain) honestly did a better job at imparting good citizenship and moral consideration than most vicars or whoever would have, I think.
@futurebird Very much the first one. My parents went through Lutheran, Salvation Army, and Evangelical churches throughout my childhood. I stuck around into my late 20s, but the Evangelicals eventually pushed me to atheism with their bigotry, hypocrisy and other bullshit. It was incredibly liberating to leave that all behind. I felt free like I never had before in my life.
Being a former-Catholic atheist:
I had Catholic grade school and weekly mass. It did not stick.
@futurebird Not raised as religious at all, in any way.
@futurebird yes but not voluntarily.
@futurebird As a kid and teen I went to church more often than my parents; I was in the choir and they were "major holidays and life events only". Now I'm the choirmistress so obviously I'm in church most services :-)
@futurebird my dad was a united methodist minister/military chaplain, so I was compelled to attend until I turned 18
@futurebird I have very vague memories of Sunday school as a very small child (basically I can remember making a Christingle). I went to an independent school that was nominally Christian with special assemblies with Communion for things like Easter, and hymns sung every morning, but it didn't take, so I only really went to church for weddings and carol services.
3 times every Sunday
Music Group on Monday
Small group meeting on Tuesday
Bible study on Wednesday
Youth Group on Thursday
Youth Group Social on Fridays.
So yeah, I voted for the top one but it doesn't quite cover it.
@futurebird My dad had a vision when I was about 9 or 10 and joined the local Anglican church. He bought my brother and I ice-cream.
This was false advertising. Religion is not as good as ice cream.
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Can't vote because it changed over time while growing up!
@futurebird I'm a thoroughly (non-militant) atheist by upbringing and inclination. Both sets of grandparents were CofE, but it didn't stick with my parents. So I had the weird experience of sitting at the dinner table at family gatherings while everyone else said grace.
Oh, and there was the legally required religious content™ at school (chapel first thing several days a week). That didn't help. Remember the school sections in Meaning of Life? The chapel service there was pretty much spot on.
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Asked parents if I could stay home and play on Sundays instead of going to church at age 9.
@futurebird Please do understand that I was forced to attend services every single Sunday at least once, sometimes twice per week, because in the Evangelical right-wing world I was raised in I was viewed as the property of my parents and was required to shut my mouth and obey. Full Stop. I don't attend as an adult.