Did your parents teach you about GOD and religion?

Question

Or how did you find your faith and belief in GOD.

If you DO NOT believe in GOD did you come to that conclusion on your own? or did someone persuade you to believe that way?

Answer 1

My parents taught me about God and religion, I had to figure out on my own that it is all make-believe.


My parents are both fantastic parents, but I intend to expose my children to all points of view.

Answer 2

I was raised Catholic. I was baptized, made my first communion and my confirmation.

I was never into the hold Catholic Church scene. I was forced to make my confirmation by my parents. Being 15 at the time, I really had no choice.

As soon as I made my confirmation I knew that I was all done with going to church. I have not been back since.

The question of do I believe in God or not is a tricky one. I want to believe in something but I have a really hard time because it was always forced on me.

I have a child which I am not bringing up connected with any formal religion. I will fill him in on religions and what some people believe. Once he gets old enough and can make his own decisions. I'm not sure if it is the right way, but that's what I am doing.

Answer 3

I was raised in a christian household. I believed for a long time...and then I began to study the "word" of god. I quickly realized the fallacy of it. By 19 I had become an agnostic...and an angry one at that. I began a search for truth and god. I have studied religion, read all the "sacred" texts I can get my hands on and most importantly have studied the behavior of believers (of all religions). I have come to many conclusions, however the most shocking to me personally is the hostility the Abrahamic religions of Christianity and Islam seem to breed right into people. The willfull ignorance of believers is also shocking. It seems to me that they are more interested in proving their 'book' to be true than actually knowing God. Oh well, time will tell.

If I had to label myself it would be Pagan Rationalist.

Answer 4

There was no talk of God in my home growing up. There was some discussion of general religious thinking but only from an historical perspective.

I came to my current views in my teens/twenties after a lot of reading and thought. Everyone I knew was agnostic but there was no interest in religion per se among any people I knew up until my early twenties. I never met a believer before I was 18.

Answer 5

I was abonded by my parents. In the first part of my life saw much opposition which was for a reason I think.

I acted on my own will to find God.

In the bible it says he who lacks knowledge ask and you shall recieve. I wanted to know what church what the true church because shurly these churchs and christians who are bashing each other are not of his spirit. Also in the bible it speaks of the athority and or Melchezidic priesthood. To preach the Gospel you would have to hold Christs athority right?

If god had a true church what would he call it?


The same day I had Mormons missionaries on my doorstep.
I do not believe in that type of luck and would be stupid as to deny it of a sign of God.

It is a promise in the book of Mormon that he who reads and asks God in the name of Christ if it is true will recieve there answer througth the holy ghost.

I thought that was the best deal I could get.

I testify that there is one true church that is over the entire planet and spreading by 300,000 members a day and does not pay there clergy. It has changed my life getting a personal answer from God.

I hope this changes someone elses

www.lds.org
www.mormon.org

Answer 6

Did your parents teach you about GOD and religion?
Yes

If you DO NOT believe in GOD did you come to that conclusion on your own?
Yes

Answer 7

All children are born agnostic.... unassuming and unknowing.

Left to its own devices, a child's beliefs will be dependant on their intelligence, curiosity and access to necessary equipment for analytical investigation of reality.

A smart, questioning, logical child will tend to ask a lot of questions and decide for themselves which are right and what makes sense. They will tend toward athiesm that way in general.

An emotional, overdependant, unquestioning child will tend toward the simpler "shortcut" route of believing in a god of some sort.... though usually they will tend to visualise such as a kind of grandparent figure....


And my Nihilistic conclusions I came to entirely on my own.... since my mother didn't teach me anything about any religion at all... though she did insist I follow my interest in science, read books and work things out for myself.

That was, however, after I experimented with being a Satanist at the age of 9 .... mostly because I figured it would provide me with the means to get rid of the deceptive and evil christians who were spreading lies in school.
It didn't.
I gave up hope of ever thwarting the evils of christianity after that point....

Took me years to learn to pity them rather than hate them.... and years again to learn to mock and otherwise ignore them.

Answer 8

Parents to some extent but mainly church and school. When you think of it, as a child you are being told the story of god as truth, and never told about the origins of religions.

When I grew older and became educated, I was able to work out for myself that there is no god or gods.

Answer 9

Yes, but my parents were not really spiritual nor religious. In my country the maturity of people believe in Jesus but they do not go to church or pray or stuff like that. I was baptized as a baby and confirmed as a teenager

I walked away from my childhood faith. I was never a regular churchgoer, but when my daughter wanted to start to go to the church I thought I would give her that try. I was so sure that she never wanted to go back. I was wrong. God had different plan for us. We joined in to that church, got baptized and we have been attending worship since then, years now.

I am not only believing in Jesus now, I also have faith in Him. I study His word. And I would be happy to do a short term mission trip in a future. : )

Answer 10

My parents didn't teach me much about God. They brought me to Sunday school, these people taught me some basics but we quit going when I was very young. This must had made an impact on me because I always felt God with me.

My mom was into the "new age movement" (very old religion) and I knew in my heart it wasn't the truth. I knew reincarnation was false, and I didn't know why I knew this.
She and this religion taught me fear. She was also into mediums (very evil) and psychics.
God taught me peace and security. Way different than what my parents taught.
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