three easy religious questions...all answers welcome?

Question

1. whats your denomination?

2. how old are you?

3. whats your parents denomination?

my contention is (and i may be completely wrong), atheists and agnostics are going to be (on average) older than Christians and Muslems...and Christians are the most likely ones who share the same denomination as their parents....which leads me to a 4th question (you don't have to answer this one as its unprovable)....if your parents hadn't passed their beliefs to you at your most influential age, would you still be what you are?

sorry...rude of me to not include mine.

agnostic...leaning towards atheism

29

parents-both catholic.

31 was average age of 10 atheists...
31 was also average age of 11 agnostics (i included 'no denomination,' confused people and pagans here.
37 was average age of 17 christians.
37 was the age of the only muslem.

i guess i was wrong with my assumption. and most are not the same as thier parents. thanks for all of your answers. very interesting.

and sorry idid the stats while answers were still coming in...missed the 2nd muslim and the buddhist. my apologies.

Answer 1

Atheism isn't a "denomination".

Atheist
42
Indifferent (not religious, not atheist)

Answer 2

1. American Baptist
2. 48
3. Southern Baptist
4. Thank the Lord I was raised in a Christian home. I will agree that in some ways it is easier to find and accept the Lord if you have grown up exposed to it. However, I have done quite a bit of reading and searching to confirm for myself the teachings of my denomination compared to what the Bible says as well as what other faiths believe. I am probably more conservative than my parents were on some things, just because I think our society has become somewhat more polarized and the "lines in the sand" have become more clearly drawn. In my teens & 20's I did not follow my parents' values or the teaching of my church closely, and I have had to deal with the consequences and regrets of sin in my life because of it. So, even though I was influenced by my upbringing, my faith now is very definitely my own. I get your point, though.

Answer 3

1. whats your denomination? Non-denominational Christian

2. how old are you? 37

3. whats your parents denomination? Irish Catholic

4. If your parents hadn't passed their beliefs to you at your most influential age, would you still be what you are? I have no way of answering this because I really don't know. My parents did pass their beliefs onto me and I am who I am. That's like asking me what route I would take out of a burning building that I had never been in before.

Answer 4

Denomination? That assumes everyone is of the same religion. You should have asked "What religion, if any, and what denomination, if any."

Anyway, my answer is NONE.

29

Orthodox Christian


EDITED TO ADD - "i guess i was wrong with my assumption. and most are not the same as thier parents."

This extremely small sample size, with an extremely biased response won't prove or disprove anything. Large studies have shown that most kids grow up believing in the same religion (but perhaps not the exact same denomination) as their parents.

If that WEREN'T true, then the Middle East wouldn't be mostly Muslim, and Mexico wouldn't be mostly Catholic Christians. But it IS TRUE.

Answer 5

1. Seventh Day Baptist

2. 44

3. Seventh Day Baptist


Just volunteering my answer here. I don't know if I would be SDB had my parents been something else. But I do know that I have remained a Christian SDB by choice. My parents are both dead now, and I have some siblings who have remained SDB while others have moved on to other denominations, so if I wasn't convinced that I'm in the right church for me, I would go elsewhere.

Answer 6

1. Buddhist
2. 32
3. Roman Catholic
4. Honestly, I'll believe that I'd would have been a Buddhist much earlier. I've been Buddhist for 2 yrs now but I had very atheistic thoughts all through my early years. I was an atheist for a while but found secular Buddhism more my cup of tea.

Answer 7

1) born again Christian
2) 45
3) catholic
4) I was raised a catholic until I heard the Gospel at the age of 28...something that was never known to me before in all my years of frequenting the rc church

EDIT:

I appreciate your honesty with no hostility! Very refreshing! TY!

Answer 8

1. Non religious but a believer.

2. 45

3. Not believers.

4. They didn't pass their beliefs on to me and I am where I am. I am a believer because I have seen things that can't be explained by mere science. I have also had experiences that could only be called supernatural. I am a very logical person (people used to call me Spock) but logic only takes you so far and then you just have to take a leap of faith.

Answer 9

Evangelical Lutheran
51
Methodist
Probably, I was Methodist until 19 then Catholic, then Church of God, then Non-denominational, Now Lutheran..I go where the Spirit leads me.

Answer 10

1. Non-Denominational (I believe in God)
2. 27
3. Lutheran

Answer 11

1. Non-denominational Protestant
2. 37
3. Parents were Catholic.

I've never really fit into the expected statistics though.