15/15. Raised by a Roman Catholic mom and an atheist father - though I didn't know he was until after I told my mom I was an atheist at dinner one day. Mom always said he belonged to the United church, because telling me he was religious at all was better for getting me involved in religion than admitting he wasn't... it didn't work.
12/15. Dad was Catholic, Mom was United I think. Religion was never a part of our home growing up. Dad went to a Catholic boarding school in Regina, he says that cured him of religion forever (the Brothers were physically and verbally abusive). I did go to a Catholic high school, but only because I had no desire to ride 30 extra minutes to the other high school in downtown Ft McMurray. I would call myself an atheist. Got the last question wrong as well as one of the Catholic ones (oops, didn't pay attention in Religion 20, either) and the ten commandments.
15/15. Raised by a Roman Catholic mom and an atheist father - though I didn't know he was until after I told my mom I was an atheist at dinner one day. Mom always said he belonged to the United church, because telling me he was religious at all was better for getting me involved in religion than admitting he wasn't... it didn't work.
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She didn't bring you to church, get you baptised? Maybe I'm just misunderstanding your story, but it sounds kinda weird. She wanted you to be religious but didn't bring you along?
I was in almost the exact same situation (though my dad didn't live with us) but I didn't have a choice. It wasn't till I started a campaign of passive resistance as a older teenager that I finally was able to stop going to church and follow my own beliefs. For all intents and purposes I was a Catholic until I was able to decide not to be.
As for the test 13/15 here. Woulda enjoyed a longer test. I agree that many atheists have probably taken the time to look at even get involved in other religions, while those involved in a religion not only have no reason to, but actively block out ideas and stories from other faiths.
Although, it does often surprise me how little some people know about their own religion sometimes, and I think this test shows that in some people and faiths.
I had absolutely no religious upbringing, my parents never once talked about god to me or my brother and the only time I've ever stepped inside a church was for a wedding. But I enjoy learning about the historical aspects of different religions, and the more I learn the more convinced I am about my own positions
Same here. Weddings and funerals only. And on the historical aspect, the best story I read in grade school was the Old Testament taught from the perspective of a cool story.
I'm far from being an Atheist 14/15 but guessed on the 2 American teacher questions. The New Awakening ? & the MLK question seemed like the right guess.
100% raised Christian.
13/15 for me. Like most of you, go the last one wrong on the Great Awakening (although I was pretty sure it wasn't Billy G so I had a 50/50 shot), and got the Jewish Sabbath wrong as well.
My wife did it who knows nothing about religion and she managed a 9.
Atheist here, I'd say the wife is more Agnostic with Atheist leanings, but definitely Apathetic (where's I'm more anti-theist).
When I went to school, every morning we would say the Lord's Prayer and the teacher would read a passage from the Bible. This was public school in BC and I guess was normal at the time. I'd just politely stand for the prayer and space out for the bible reading although I believed it was crap. I guess over the years I did pick up some things as interesting stories and later read the bible just to see how much of it made sense. It seemed that a lot were religious and the ones who weren't just gave lip service, so as to fit in. My family as I said were atheists and that went to my cousins, uncles, etc. as well. Mostly we were raised as atheistic socialist, communists unionists.
12/15, awakening wrong, Jewish sabbath wrong, and Catholics believe eating bread and wine is actually cannibalism wrong.
I guessed on at least one I got right. I felt the majority were Judeo -Christian trivia type questions though.
How would anyone not of Judeo-Christian faith ever know some of these questions (other than luck)? They're not even more general questions some I feel are the same level as asking Which major school of Buddhism is practiced in Sri Lanka, or name the Japanese Moon God and list a bunch of Shinto God Names to choose from.
She didn't bring you to church, get you baptised? Maybe I'm just misunderstanding your story, but it sounds kinda weird. She wanted you to be religious but didn't bring you along?
I was in almost the exact same situation (though my dad didn't live with us) but I didn't have a choice. It wasn't till I started a campaign of passive resistance as a older teenager that I finally was able to stop going to church and follow my own beliefs. For all intents and purposes I was a Catholic until I was able to decide not to be.
Haha, let me clarify.
Basically my mom hoped that lying about dad's irreligion would make me more likely to stay with the religion she wanted me indoctrinated with. See, before I was born, mom and dad had a deal: if mom wanted me baptized, she could have me baptized. But beyond that, my dad didn't want me to get indoctrinated in the religion. So I was born, and baptized shortly thereafter.
Then as I grew older, mom decided to tell me all the wonderful things about Jesus and God. Dad didn't like it, but didn't say anything. And then Mom decided to enroll me in Sunday school when I was 5. Dad didn't like it at all, but mom asked and eventually got her way. Then mom wanted me to get my first holy communion around age 8. Dad didn't like it, but by this time, he didn't bother opposing it.
And THEN mom wanted me to get my confirmation, IIRC around age 12 or 13, I can't remember. But by the time this came around, I was, for all intents and purposes, an atheist. It sounded like a Santa Claus story for adults, and I was already picking holes in the bible stories at confirmation sessions... when I was awake for them. I would usually wear my sunglasses into the sessions and try to sleep behind my textbook.
Eventually I got fed up with wasting my time with this garbage and I ended up telling her at the dinner table one day. Mom said something to me that prompted my telling her and my dad that I was an atheist. This resulted in my mother calling me a "little assh-le", which was - to my memory - the first time she had ever sworn at me, making me all the more sure that I was making the right decision for myself. Emotional reactions never struck me - even at that age - as reasonable responses to things.
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