What's yours?

[jazz lady]

Oh yeah, the question. I was raised Protestant but do not practice any formal religion now.

 

[Chasey_Lane]

The voices in your head?

Them, too! Actually, my parents, though I was never brought up Catholic. Both my parents attended services, went through Communion and Confirmation - neither of which I did. Both of them don't believe in the religion anymore. :shrug:

 

[Chasey_Lane]

I do not practice any formal religion now.

Same here. I'll go to church here and there and usually I'll go with a friend. So far I like Baptist churches the best. The people are always very welcoming, as is the Pastor.

 

[gumbo]

Pentecostal

 

[ceo_pte]

I was raised Pentecostal and stick to Protestant churches. I would guess that I am not 'one religion.' I don't really like religions. I simply believe in God and the Bible.

My wife was raised Catholic(12 years of school). She now attends services with me and loves them and the people. She felt that the Catholic services were cold. After 12 years of school and years of Catholic church she didn't even know the first and last book of the Bible.

 

[janey83]

There's a catholic chapel on campus, so I went a lot with one of my friends...and everyone was really nice, and the father was very nice, too -- which she claimed was a huge change compared to the Catholic church on base. :shrug: Go figure.

 

[CityGrl]

One of my friends who is Catholic said I was "lucky" because I didn't have to confess my sins before taking Communion. She said confession always makes her feel like crud...guess I'm glad I don't have to do it!

 

[janey83]

One of my friends who is Catholic said I was "lucky" because I didn't have to confess my sins before taking Communion. She said confession always makes her feel like crud...guess I'm glad I don't have to do it!

Watch "Angela's Ashes" and you'll be glad you're not an Irish Catholic! Or at least, not an Irish Catholic in the 1940's.

 

[kingvjack]

I have no Idea what I am....
I believe in god but I'm not buyin the whole Jesus act. Sounds too much like a story a drunk on a stool was telling me. I dont believe in the church either.
My church is on the water right before the sun goes down. Not in a painted building with painted windows and such. That's the prettiest view ever.

 

[Triggerfish]

Watch "Angela's Ashes" and you'll be glad you're not an Irish Catholic! Or at least, not an Irish Catholic in the 1940's.

Is this the story about a " problem" womens' home?, where one of the residents was a rape victem and they treated her like the rape was her fault?

 

[chaotic]

Born Catholic, but wound up going to a Methodist church around here. I'm a big fan of the pastor, who is the "we're more alike than we're different" type, in terms of denominations. Growing up, my church had fantastic priests, wonderful guys who made the congregation feel like family.

 

[Nickel]

I believe in Jesus, not religion. I was baptised and saved in a Methodist church, and have attended Methodist churches all my life.

 

[Tonio]

[font=verdana, arial, helvetica]I guess I'm a Deist. I believe in God as a presence without form, not the "God made man in his own image" story from the Old Testament. I see God as the designer behind the evolutionary process and the atomic structure, kind of God-as-cosmic-watchmaker. (That's different from "intelligent design", which tries to scientifically prove that God exists. Big mistake, in my view.) I used to attend a Unitarian Universalist church, and I liked the open-mindedness.

I don't put stock in religious doctrine, because I feel that it amounts to things that can never be proven or disproven factually. Does God really care if we eat meat on Fridays or if men are circumcised?[/font] When I think of doctrine, I think of the scene from "Monty Python's Life of Brian" where Brian is fleeing from a crowd who has mistaken him for the Messiah. He loses a shoe and drops his gourd, and the crowd divides into Shoe-ites and Gourd-ites.[font=verdana, arial, helvetica][/font]

 

[itsbob]

Roman Catholic. Catholic school from kindergarten through high school.

If you're a girl probably the safest place to go to school!!

 

[jazz lady]

Is this the story about a " problem" womens' home?, where one of the residents was a rape victem and they treated her like the rape was her fault?

Not even close. Here's the blurb from Amazon:

Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in America. It turns out that prospects weren't so great back in the old country either--not with Malachy for a father. A chronically unemployed and nearly unemployable alcoholic, he appears to be the model on which many of our more insulting cliches about drunken Irish manhood are based. Mix in abject poverty and frequent death and illness and you have all the makings of a truly difficult early life. Fortunately, in McCourt's able hands it also has all the makings for a compelling memoir.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/068484267X/qid=1118889333/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/104-3537055-9795133?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

It's a heck of a story and had me in tears more than once. The movie was very good, but the book was excellent.

 

[EmnJoe]

Episcopal - (Catholic lite).

 

[Bustem' Down]

I have no Idea what I am....
I believe in god but I'm not buyin the whole Jesus act. Sounds too much like a story a drunk on a stool was telling me. I dont believe in the church either.
My church is on the water right before the sun goes down. Not in a painted building with painted windows and such. That's the prettiest view ever.

Are you sure I didn't tell you that story king?


I guess I'll be the only one to fess up and say I'm atheist.

 

[willie]

Probably Deist.

 

[Tonio]

I believe in god but I'm not buyin the whole Jesus act. Sounds too much like a story a drunk on a stool was telling me.

The book "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" theorizes that Jesus was literally attempting to drive out the Romans and claim the throne as the rightful heir of David. From my reading of the Bible, the Gospels regard the "throne of David" as a metaphor for Jesus as Lord.

 

[fttrsbeerwench]

Southern baptist as a young child. I was raised in a catholic household since I was 9. I tried out non-denomiational churches, pentacostal, Church of God and even that holy roller church that used to be in the old movie theatre in Leonardtown. When I was 18 I came to realize that not all things are as they seem with religion. I awoke in the beauty of nature and the belief that the all powerful was really in ones self. All things can be broken in to two parts, male and female. The yin and yang. I am a pagan, as defined in the oldest terms, I don't dress in black or drink blood. I'm a person who seeks to get closer to earth and live with it, not on it. No hocus pocus, no ceremonial hoopla. "God" is in all things, and the devil only exists in mens hearts or imaginations.
Church is in the woods, or on a mountain side. Clothing optional. Open you eyes.