For the sake of us all getting to know each other better,
Please share what your Former religion was. Odds are we, or our family was associated with religion at some point in time, no matter if we chose to embrace it personally or not.
If you happen to have been raised as an atheist or non believer, please share your story!!!
My apologies however it would be impossible to list all religions.
I was raised in a UCC congregation that was quite conservative, considering the denomination as a whole, but I had abandoned that by the end of college. Most recentsly I was a theistic Unitarian Universalist, heavily influenced by 12-step program theology. Now I'm a nontheistic UU.
Was raised catholic. Went to catholic school my whole life. Told my family I didn't believe in God after my sophomore year of high school.
I went to a nondenominational Christian church. Most of tbe people were very nice. You could tell when finances were getting tight though because there'd be the sermon on how if you tithed your 10% god would make you rich. It never worked but christians aren't the most logical thinkers in the world.
I attended a parish school for grades 7 and 8, a catholic high school, and a Jesuit university. Oddly, the Jesuits gave me the intellectual ammunition to effectively analyze, question, and ultimately reject first catholicism, and then religion and theism in general . What a relief!
A Jesuit once said to me "Believe it? What the whole kit and caboodle? No, no, no; that is for the appeasement of the common man whose mind is not able to grasp deeper truths"