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How religious are you?
| Sun, 11-26-2006 - 1:56pm |
Okay - it's sunday and I've come from a very sweet day at church made even sweeter because of the message of the season of thankfulness and Christ's birth and it made me wonder - how religious are you?


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Well, I may have mentioned it here before, but I am atheist as is my DD
We have Children's ministry on Wednesday nighs (K-5th) and Youth group on Sunday night (6th grade-12th grade). My children go often but I do not make them go every week.
We attend the special services as a Family Also (Christmas Eve, Good Friday, Thanksgiving, etc).
We also Vacation Bible School that they children attended when they were younger and Austin may still do this next summer.
We have many committees and groups to be involved in. I am a member of the UMW (Meth. Women) and the Children-Family Committee, plus I help with Youth Group monthly. DH is on the Finance committee and I am also involved in a weekly bible study.
Both Dh and I are members of the Capital Campaign committee also as we are in the process of raising money to build a new church on some land we have purchased.
Ugh, hot topic at our house right now!
I was raised Methodist.
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Linda
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Alex (16), Rachel (14), Matthew (12)
Ramona Mom to 2 great kids and wife to one wonderful hubby since 1990!
My dh was raised Jewish. I was raised primarily Lutheran, but confirmed Methodist because that church was closer to our house. That kind of gives the idea of how serious my folks were. Both my dh and I are agnostic, leaning toward atheist. We try to teach our girls to respect other peoples' religions. We bow our heads if someone gives a meal time blessing, for example. I would never try to dissuade someone of their religion and am mortified if someone tries to convert me. Fortunately, this doesn't seem to be as popular a pass-time as it was in the 1970's.
I sometimes wish I believed because in times of great stress, it seems that it would be comforting. But my mind won't wrap around it. I believe that you should try to be a good person and do what seems right because of principle, as opposed to fear of judgement day.
Diane
See - this is what I love - so many differences!!
First and foremost, our family is Christian, strongly so.
We are Presbyterian and our particular church is pretty liberal in it's theology and beliefs. Dh was raised Catholic but didn't agree with many of the "rules". We are very involved in our church and I would say my beliefs guide my daily choices and I'm not out to convert anyone. I don't make choices because I'm afraid of hell, I make them because they're what I believe God wants me to do or they are morally the "right" thing to do. I also believe in respecting other people's beliefs and learning about what others believe. My two best friends are Jewish and my family is included in most of their holidays.
This isn't the only reason I believe in God but I can't help believe that there is a higher power controlling things when I realize that I have a medical condition that's supposed to leave me unable to have children yet I was able to conceive and bear two children (1 boy and 1 girl) with the help of an egg donor in two attempts - eggs harvested once from donor and embryos were implanted in me twice. Yes there is some scientific explanation but the odds were so against me that I can't believe it just happened. Oh and did I mention that only 2 - 5% of the fetuses with my medical condition survive?
We attend church every weekend we're in town and once in a while Evan misses church due to a swim meet but only once or twice/year. The kids go to the first 20 minutes of the service and then go to Sunday School for about an hour. Our church has a second service that's a little less formal and we attend that as a family some weekends instead. We also go to a family night type thing on Thursday evenings - dinner followed by programming for kids (choir and then movies, games, crafts, whatever) and adult ed for the grown ups.
As far as kids asking me religious questions - here's my classic - At age 3, at 7:00 one morning while I'm trying to get him and his infant sister to daycare and myself to work, Evan asks me "What does God eat?". I did what any parent does when they don't know an answer, they turn the question back to the kid. He proceeded to list his favorite foods. My OB told me I should have told him broccoli - oh well, one of many parenting mistakes!!!
Great thread!!!!!!!!
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