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Mom 66%  66%  [ 23 ]
Dad 17%  17%  [ 6 ]
Equally religious 17%  17%  [ 6 ]
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23 Sep 2012, 3:04 pm

Dad rebelled against his hypereligous Kansas upbringing as the son of a minister (his mom was worse than his dad). Mom went along with her nonreligous upbringing. So niether was religous.

When I was ten they were both struggling about it apparently.

I was home from school reading a magazine or something, but was conversing with mom about the one religion she was prejudiced against:Mormons.

"What so bad about Mormons?"I asked.

She said "I dunno, it just makes me angry. A religion founded by a guy who claimed he talked to angels!"

I just shrugged and replied "isnt that how every religion got started?"

She was silent.

I looked up and she had stunned faraway look in her eyes. She finnally said "you know, I guess thats right."


That evening I heard them talking behind closed doors about something or other-but i heard my mom say the phrase "it raises the question isnt that what ALL religion is".

The upshot was that apparently, my dumb innocent comment as a child was the final straw that got both of my parents off religion.



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23 Sep 2012, 7:50 pm

Hard to say. Both my parents were neurotic.

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26 Sep 2012, 2:59 pm

Really need to define / refine the terms.



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02 Oct 2012, 7:56 am

My mom is more religious. My dad is agnostic/Deist like me and my mom is a semi-devout (though in my opinion, secretly doubting) Catholic.



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02 Oct 2012, 3:27 pm

My mother holds strong Roman Catholic beliefs, my father holds even stronger anti-religious ones.