Are your theological beliefs different from your parents?

Question

Is your belief system different from your parents? Elaborate if you wish.

What caused you to not continue with thier tradition?

Answer 1

LOL!!!! Yeah, mine are WAY different.How's this one for ya?My biological mother was Mormon and my Dad's Catholic!!!! Growing up with the Mormon stuff made me realize they were essentially telling me my highest aspirations should be to stay at home, pop out some kids and defer to my husband, because I'll never go to heaven and my soul isn't complete without a man, and then there's the Catholic thing, which I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me why Pride is a sin.So when I hit that rebellious teenager stage, I took advantage of the sterotype and converted to Wicca.Been that way ever since.15 years now.Life is good.Pretty much.

Answer 2

My mum is an evangelical christian, my dad is an atheist, I'm a buddhist.

I was brought up brainwashed that christianity was right and all other religions go to hell, but I'm naturally skeptical and I soon realised that there were people from other religions and atheists who were much better people than the christians I knew. I started getting offended by my youth leader saying things like all other non-christians worship satan, I decided I'd find out for myself so I read the bible - that was the final straw, that book is so full of bullshlt that it couldn't have been written by god. Oh and creationists piss me off 2.

I was then an atheist for a bit, but I couldn't rationally believe there was nothing but the physical world, as I believe in free will but if you look at humans on a particle level then this is impossible in a materialist viewpoint.

Anyways to finish my story I spent 5 weeks in Ladakh (part of India but very Tibetan in culture) over the summer, and while I was there I read a lot of books on buddhism, which all made perfect sense to me. I also did a bit of medidation which I found really calming. The result of that is that I looked into it all a lot more when I got back and decided to become a buddhist.

Answer 3

My parents were Methodist when I was growing up but didn't really go to church. My mother was always more religious and converted to Catholicism several years ago as she likes glitz and ceremonies and really went gaga over fancy rosaries.

However my early schooling was greatly supplemented by going over to my grandparents house (they were Christians of some sort but never really talked about religion) and pouring over their old National Geographics which stuck a chord with my internal naturalist and I have been a stout evolutionist since. Perhaps due to the reading of so-called primitive societies I also had an affinity with Paganism and Gaea and when everything finally settled out I am a Pagan Naturalist Witch.

Answer 4

My beliefs are still forming and shaping. I believe that's the best way to go about it, really, being open to whatever's out there.

My dad is atheist, my mom recently became a very gun-ho Christian who listens to nothing but Christian music. Needless to say, they're divorced.

What caused me to not continue with their religions? Well, there was really no tradition to begin with. Secondly, they both have flaws in their logic. I won't be either extreme.

Answer 5

No I am different. My Dad although he knew a christian when he saw one (freaky huh) never went to church that I remember and when Mom wanted us to go insisted we go to this unamed church I latter found out was at the center of the new age movement. I studied everything I could find on religion until some ladies seeing me searching went to great expense to get me a tape (7 volumns actually) by Malcolmn Smith and when I heard it I knew He of that which he spoke. I then got his tapes on how to read the Bible and have been a friend of Jesus ever since

Answer 6

Yes, my beliefs are different from theirs. I am an atheist. My mother is an Episcopalian. My father was Jewish, but he was not a practicing Jew. We kids were taken to Sunday school at a Unitarian church. I never thought the stories were meant to be taken as fact. I always assumed they were just stories, no different from the ones such as, Winnie the Pooh or Alice in Wonderland. It turns out I was right.

Answer 7

Mine are the same as my parents. I Chose to stay the same beliefs as my parents because how much of a difference my Beliefs had made in my life.

Answer 8

Yes. My bad is a baptist, my mom is evangelical, I am an atheist.

I didn't continue with their tradition because I was educated. I have a bachelors of science and a minor in General Philosophy. Christianity has numerous logical flaws that I couldn't get past and I find their moral and philosophical view of life in generally disgusting.

Answer 9

Different? Yes! We all started out Xian. My dad remains stubbornly so; my mom goes to church but seems to be interested in ideas that have more to do with God being a state you get to through making mistakes and learning. I see the church as harsh but she's surrounded by 'Jesus is love' people and those who think the concept of Hell is 'tough love' (prob. b/c they don't want to think about what it really would mean).
I'm definitely more of a 'free thinker'. I see no real proof of any after-world but I haven't been satisfied with answers for coincidences as 'it just happened' w/o some . But I definitely think it's more likely to have a polytheistic world than an individual that contradicts himself and chooses men to be his representatives that don't represent his standards very well (i.e.-Abraham)

Answer 10

My parents were Baptists; my mother's father was a Baptist preacher.

I was a practicing Christian for over 30 years and when I finally got around to seriously studying the issues, concluded atheism is the only logical choice.


I'm not sure what they currently believe since they are dead; presumably, they don't believe anything since they are beyond thinking about it.