How are your religious views different from your parents?

Question

Toadsputum -- to answer your question, I was raised a Seventh-Day Adventist. My dad was never really "religious" but was vaguely deistic. (He was a physicist, I think he just went through the motions of religion.) Today my mom is what you might call "spiritual but not religious" -- neither of my parents are practicing anymore.

Me? I slowly became an atheist as an adult. The more I think about it, the less I believe in a personal god.

Answer 1

they believe in heaven and hell, i dont really believe in that, they believe the sabbath is on a sunday, i believe it's on a saturday, they believe that the old testament is true, and i dont believe it is just merely as a way of getting people to live their life in the "right" way, they dont have a spiritual side, through what other people have told me and how accurate they hav bn in terms of what they know about people in my family who have passed away, i believe that we dont completely die once we die physically, that our body remains on earth until the day we are judged by god.

Answer 2

I know what you mean, I was raised a Catholic and now I'm not into religion but more of a spiritual type. Truth was just because I was RAISED Catholic doesn't mean I WAS Catholic. I always wondered in my head about other possibilities out there, and believe me the kind of "teachers" we had at CCD (since I went to public school i was forced to go to an afterschool catholic program), really didn't answer anything. If you have a close relationship with your parents you may want to sit down and talk with them. Of course my dear mother really didn't take to it well at first, and even some more religious family members, but as they seen that I'm still a good person and have my OWN relationship with God without religious dogma, they don't see it no different generally speaking. Of course, since recently I began studying earth-based religions and beliefs, I've still kept that from my mother although she knows I do like various aspects of Eastern philosophy (Buddhism) and spirituality. I don't let one religion bog me down from my path. The key to knowing God is to LEARN. And to learn is to expand and grow. Just as long as you don't delve into any cults or the Church of Satan your fine.

Answer 3

My dad was baptized as a Baptist, I suppose. As far as I know, my parents never believed in God, didn't practise religion anyhow. The kids all had to go to Sunday School, but that was just so my parents could sleep in. This one particular church offered to pick up us kids and bring us home. This fellow came and picked up us 4 kids, plus 3 more kids and we all crammed in a 4-seater car. Seat belts were far in the future then. I hated Sunday School because we were told that we were all sinners and if we didn't believe in God, we would all go to hell.

At the age of 40, I became a Christian and was baptized. Still learning how to be a Christian.
God Bless You.

Answer 4

Parents were devout Catholics. They both left the church and neither practiced Catholicism again. I also left the church and stayed away for 20 years (never attended another church; just didn't practice any faith). I returned to the Catholic Church 13 years ago. So my faith is very different from my parents' at the end of their lives, but the same as their early years. Ironic in a way. Once when my mother was visiting me a neighbor of mine said to her, "I see her (meaning me) in church every Sunday," as if he thought my mother would want to know I am a regular at Mass. My mother said later, humorously, "Little does he know I haven't darkened the door of a church in years." Although she was not a churchgoer, she was a very deeply faithful person, and a wonderful example for me.

Answer 5

My father is a Baptist, I follow a neo-pagan path. The differences are too many to name.

When I was growing up, my parents were Nazarene and I was simply a polytheist who believed in Macro Philosophy (metaphysical beliefs) which I learned about from a favorite aunt when I was about 10 years old. It is still the foundation of my beliefs today.

We've always respected each other's views and encouraged each other to follow the path that is right for us. We don't bother trying to convert each other out of respect. This is who we are.
I'm now in my 40's and my father is in his 70's.

Answer 6

My mother went from being a strict Catholic-->an Episcopalian (got divorced and remarried and didn't want to pay the fees)-->Budhist (enter midlife crisis and husband #3-->a redneck Catholic (husband #4). My religious views are different from hers in that I do not follow any religion, nor would I change my beliefs for the flavor of the week. My "dad" is "born-again." He moved to the bible belt and really over does it. "Hi Dad, how are you doing." "I'm great, god is in my life." I think it is just ridiculous. I think my views differ from his in that he thinks god will save the world. I look at religion as a major source of world conflict. How bout you?

Answer 7

My Father found his faith in the bottom of a beer can with a side order of cigarettes. My Mother believes her God will take her to heaven no matter how she acts as long as her conscience doesn't bother her. I am a Jehovah's Witness.

Answer 8

My beliefs are vastly different from my parents. I'm agnostic, they're Christians. So they're firm believers in god, whereas I question god's existence. I also don't believe rock music is full of satanic messages meant to corrupt people, it's just music. I could go on and on.

Answer 9

Yes, my parents did not baptize me and they only went to religious services occasionally on holidays. I try to go more often. I was for a time an agnostic but I decided to become a Christians and was baptized in an Episcopal church.

Answer 10

I feel my parents are a generation closer to the giving of the bible at Mount Sinai and so have more innate faith than I do.