What is your heritage?

Question

Did your heritage effect your religion or spirituality in any way? If so, how? Are you the same religion as your parents, if not, why? What about your ancestors?

Just some random questions. :) Have a great evening!

Myself, I'm German, Danish, and Mexican.

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Answer 1

I am an American.

The European side of my family has been here since before the Revolutionary War-both sides of the family. They married into the indigenous population who have been here for 10's of thousands of years.

My heritage is:
English, Scots, Irish, French, Huegonot, Welsh and 2 Native tribes; Muscogee and Delaware.

Answer 2

Mostly the British Isles and Sweedish. My ethnic heritage did not effect my religious beliefs, but I am the same religion as my parents and the majority of my ancestors, about 150 years back. By the way, I chose to stay in my religion for reasons unrelated to it being the way I was raised.

Answer 3

I was Catholic for the first 10 years of my life, Jewish for the next 14 and now I go to a Methodist Church! My mom is still Jewish and my father is still Presbyterian I guess. My grandparents were all Catholic/Christian. I think for me it is about finding the right fit :)

As far as heritage, My fathers side has been here since 1794 so they are "well bred" Christian Americans! My maternal grandmother came here from France during WW2 and her husbands parents were from Germany :)

Answer 4

I'm Filipino-Spanish-Portuguese. ;) I grew up in the Philippines, a mostly-Catholic country. My parents are both Catholics, so am I. I love my religion, and I don't think I would ever convert to any other faith. As for my ancestors, they're all mostly Catholics since they're Spaniards. These days though, I have relatives who already converted to Born Again Christian.

Answer 5

I'm a happy American melting pot of English, Irish, Scottish, and Native American. My kids share an even more diverse heritage, since their father is part African-American. I can't say my racial heritage or my parents have much to do with my religion, since I wasn't really raised to participate in any faith. I found Christ on my own, or to be more accurate, He found me. My mother and father considered themselves "christians", but only in the sense that they were not Jewish.

Answer 6

German and Scandanavian. I'm not sure how much my heritage affected my religion because after I was born, I was placed in a Catholic orphanage. Eventually, I was adopted by a Catholic family and raised Catholic. As I got older, I went through periods of interest and experimentation with other religions until I finally found that being a Christian was what fit me best.

In my family's case, both of them (adoptive and biological) were Lutheran, however, in each family, one key person converted to Catholicism and that's how I came to be in a Catholic orphanage. The bulk of my family (both adoptive and biological) are Lutheran.

Answer 7

I'm american. My parents were born here, my dad's parents were born here and so on. My maternal grandparents, however, were not. My mother's family is catholic, my father's family is southern baptist, my parents are non denominational christian. Me? I'm not sure if you'd call me atheist, but I certainly don't believe in the false gods created by man, but I do believe in the spirit realm and the supernatural (I've seen far too many things without the assistance of mind altering substances to believe otherwise).

Answer 8

Well, Americans are mutts by the tradition of our country as the melting pot. I am anglo-sexton, mostly british I've been told, but really don't have information about this. My family are christians by the relevence of believing in God, but none are church goers, nor am I. I don't think this has anything to do with ancestors though. It has more to do with the social aspect of child rearing.

Answer 9

Spanish and German. I'm not the same religion as my parents. I'm not sure what religion my ancestors were.

Answer 10

Adam, by way of Noah. I think there was a stop in Europe at some point...

While Christianity was founded nearly 2000 years ago, my religion in its modern form has only been around for 120 years or so. My parents both accepted our religion during early adulthood.