# Raised religiously? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 29, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968 "2010-06-29T19:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/1 "2010-06-29T19:20:15Z")
> [@Believers: Why are you so sure of your beliefs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-why-are-you-so-sure-of-your-beliefs/543965/172): > > Most on this board were taught to believe in science, taught that nothing supernatural or spiritual exists, but that teaching is not based on proof or an understanding of the whole universe. I was wondering if this was actually true. Were you raised in a religious background, an atheist background or an indifferent background? I have no interest in whether or not it took, or what your outlook is now. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/2 "2010-06-29T19:22:33Z")
I’ve been raised to believe that religion and science can coexist, when properly understood. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/3 "2010-06-29T19:23:17Z")
I was raised in a devoutly Catholic family in which going to Mass was not considered optional even if there was some sort of large natural disaster and the sheriff’s department had closed the roads. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/4 "2010-06-29T19:28:48Z")
Everyone in my family is supposedly Christian but I was never taught anything about religion, ours or otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/5 "2010-06-29T19:30:25Z")
Church Of The Nazarene for many years. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/6 "2010-06-29T19:33:45Z")
I was raised in a house that was entirely secular - not even prayers at thanksgiving. However, I was not told “We’re Atheists, there is no God” or anything like that. God or the lack thereof was just…irrelevant. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/7 "2010-06-29T19:34:39Z")
Bit of Judaism, bit of Christianity, all of the holidays, none of the observances. My parents were totally indifferent except when religion meant presents or food. I’m currently an apatheist. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/8 "2010-06-29T19:41:42Z")
Raised religiously in a sense, though there wasn’t much until I went to Hebrew School in 3rd grade. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/9 "2010-06-29T19:45:24Z")
My parents raised me religiously. Almost every day, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/10 "2010-06-29T19:50:29Z")
I picked “religiously,” but I was also taught science and how it lets us understand the world around us. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/11 "2010-06-29T20:07:54Z")
Raised religiously. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/12 "2010-06-29T20:09:33Z")
Where are all the people raised to worship science? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/13 "2010-06-29T20:09:45Z")
Raised Roman Catholic, conservative in practice (fancy-pants high Mass, kneeling during the Consecration, none of that shitty twinky-ding-dong music a la Marty Haugen, stay through the closing hymn and you’d better be puking if you want to get out of going to church) but liberal in theology (same-sex marriage, Jesus was a socialist, evolution–though perhaps as influenced, intended, or forseen by God–and not creationism, etc.). Also attended a Catholic kindergarten and grade school (K-8), a Catholic high school, and a Jesuit (Catholic) university (two, technically, since I studied abroad for a semester). So that’s eighteen years of religious instruction, all told (before someone challenges me on the math, I took five years for my undergrad). Unfortunately for Mom, I ended up an atheist and lil’ bro is a Buddhist. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/14 "2010-06-29T20:11:42Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Where are all the people raised to worship science? It’s so \*cute \*how you think this poll is going to have any effect on him whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Gustav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Gustav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gustav)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/15 "2010-06-29T20:12:14Z")
Not sure what to check. My parents raised me pretty much indifferently (afaik they’re religious, but they don’t really care), but we on the other hand I had to take christianity lessons on the same standing as math or science for several years in elementary school and everyone had to pray every day before class. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/16 "2010-06-29T20:16:10Z")
Catholic. Loosely practiced, but Catholic. As a child, I used to say my prayers before bed every night. Went to CCD every week. Did First Holy Communion. Our Father Hail Mary Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/17 "2010-06-29T20:36:17Z")
I was raised Hindu. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/18 "2010-06-29T20:37:09Z")
My family gradually became much less devoutly Catholic as I moved through my “tween” and into my teen years. This coincided with my Dad’s loss of his faith, which when I was very young was very strong, but he eventually became an atheist (because of his experiences as a physician, or for other reasons, I never quite knew and he didn’t tell me). So we went from going to church every week, me doing the whole confession/communion/confirmation thing, to all of us pretty much not doing anything, all in the space of about 5 years. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/19 "2010-06-29T20:37:58Z")
Catholic. Liberal and loose, but Catholic. Went to Catholic schools most of my entire education. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968/20 "2010-06-29T20:46:00Z")
Cradle Catholic, raised in a practicing and mostly conservative family. My father has been a church organist since before I was born, so I got early groundings in liturgy, doctrine, and theology. Oh, and I attended Catholic schools from 2nd grade through college graduation (except the two years we lived in England). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raised-religiously/544968.md?page=2)