Who was/is more religious? Mom or Dad?

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Both equally non-religious.

Both flirted with it at times.

My Dad was never a religious person. My mom, on the other hand, can be very spiritual but she isn't overly religious.

Both my parents are sort of like Christmas/Easter Christians. I wasn't really raised with much religious influence...

That's a tough question for me. My dad was proud of me when I decided to make a public profession of faith and join the church, he was a youth Sunday school teacher, his dad was a deacon for over half his life, but away from church he did pretty much whatever he wanted. I only saw my dad drink beer ONCE. But, that aside, he has a nasty temper, was abusive in the home, used foul language, cursed/swore (I consider dropping f*bombs and saying "g**d***" to be completely different things), and would quote the Bible out of context to get whatever he wanted.

My mom could be just as nasty, but I always found it was a reaction to my dad. She was a totally different person after he died. She's more consistent about reading the Bible than I am, though I started studying the Bible in earnest at an earlier age than she did. But she's also EXTREMELY reserved, thinks I play praise and worship music too loud on the piano, and gets really nervous when I'm around in some religious context because I tend to be a bit more of a loose cannon (I play loud Christian music and I ask tough questions--she doesn't like fielding questions about religion, never knows how to answer).

So depending on how you define "religious" and what it means to be more or less religious than someone else--my dad was more overbearing and authoritarian; my mom doesn't speak up much (unless, of course, I'm doing something cool in church), but overall was much better at putting Christian principles into practice in daily life. For me, I'd have to say it was my mom.

It was Mom growing up but I see her drift further and further away as the years go on. I would say neither is religious (we grew up in the United Church of Canada) although my mother is a firm believer in God and my father is not.

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Father was nominally protestant when I was very young, probably shifted towards apatheism or generic religious indifference.

My mother (who didn't raise or have custody over me) was a Wiccan.

My dad came from a devout Russian Orthodox Christian household where Easter meant an all-night liturgy. And my dad hated it as much as he loved it. He wore a cross around his neck until the day he died in 2004.

My mom has struggled all her life with her Baptist identity because my mom is pretty socially liberal. I would say out of my biological parents, my mom is the more religious one. I only became a regular church goer because of my mom. My dad never made an attempt to bring us to church on Sundays.

My paternal grandmother on the other hand? Highly paranoid and borderline anti-Semitic, yet surprisingly went shopping in Jewish stores in New York City ike nobody's business. And when I lived in the NYC suburbs, we had a next door neighbor who was Jewish who my grandmother was attracted to when she first met him because he was a hunk, almost a spitting image of her father. Surprisingly, this man's wife is Catholic, so go figure! And my grandmother only had one mean bone in her body. We all called her "the Pope of Richmond Hill" because of her generosity, and that generosity was not limited to the Russian emigre community.

Your mom.

Neither were very religious at all when I was growing up. My mother was a Christian when I was a child, now I'm not really sure but she still seems to believe in a God and an afterlife involving a Heaven/Hell. (The latter of which she believes I shall be going to.) My father was also a Christian but he died when I was younger (and my parents were separated), so, I'm not sure how religious he was in his last days, but according to my brother, he a Christian when he died. My step-father says he's a secular (non-religious) atheist, but for someone who is he sure turns to the Bible a lot to condemn me (talking to him, he really just seems like a Christian who's angry at God). I voted "Mom" because I've known her the longest and she is more than my step-father.

Honestly, as a child, I was the most religious person in my household (I was primarily Christian but I did identify as Pagan and later Buddhist for a short while). I went to church regularly, prayed, etc. and took my faith quite seriously. However, once I reached adolescence I left religion and theism and have been a secular (non-religious) atheist ever since. Even so, I do wear a rosary (although it's almost always hidden) just because it reminds of the (few) times in my childhood that I can remember feeling like I actually had a family.

Dad, he doesn't go to church but his faith has never wavered. My mum has been on and off about belief in God.

My parents never had any interest in attending church, reading the Bible, praying, or even discussing religion. Still, they say they are Christians. I think it has just never occurred to them to consider anything else.

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