What are you?

Are you Catholic Atheist or Protestant atheist?

 

I'm neither.

 

Are you asking which religion people were before the became atheist?

 

Yep or upbringing.

 

My family is baptist. I was raised baptist, and attended a baptist school. After 10 years I was asked to leave for being a "wolf in sheeps clothing" basically because I asked too many questions, and bible class turned into a debate between me and my teacher (and a few others in the class). But you can imagine my disappointment when I learned (at an early age) that men did not truely have one less rib than women, which was what I was tought in an elementary science class...among other lies I was tought. The rib thing was probably the first thing that sent me down the path questioning my beliefs.

 

I thought the rib thing was real...hmmm

I was raised Jewish, then some type of Christian, and now I am agnostic.

 

Oh, I thought the question was different

I've never followed any type of Christianity (or religion for that matter). My birth parents are some type of Christian, but they never went to church (and still don't), and I didn't knww they followed any religion until I was around 8. Then I lived with a Muslim family for some years, but they never pushed their belliefs onto me, and now I'm back with my birth family. They didn't try pushing anything onto me until last summer, and it didn't work.

 

My family is methodist, though I'm not sure if my dad is even religious... I'm just whatever.... Not particularly religious at all... None of it was ever really forced on me as a kid, we did an advent wreath thingy, and might go to some church function on easter or christmas, but that was about it... Never went on sundays and such...

 

I went to a church for the first time last spring... it was what I imagined Hell to be like....

 

You aren't the only one. A survey I was reading of 10,000 men and women showed that half actually thought men had one less rib. That's pretty pathetic for this day and age, and a reason why religion pisses me off so much. People would rather take from a book that is thousands of years old than present day knowledge we have gained through science.

 

Haha last time I went was probably 12 or more years ago... I'd always just take one of the things they hand out and draw on it... I don't think I ever actualy listened to any of it...

 

quote: A survey I was reading of 10,000 men and women showed that half actually thought men had one less rib. That's pretty pathetic for this day and age

And I wasn't even raised religious, oh god, did I actually learn that in public elementary school, that is pathetic. I mean its so concrete, all you have to do is look at a skeleton...


Now I have to reexamine whether the grand canyon is actually 2,000 years old (that part is a joke)

Last time was in church was for my cousins catholic wedding, I didn't stand when you were supposed to and caused the people around me to sing the hymns louder....stupid christians well actually no

 

Last time I went was about 7 years ago. And you couldn't drag me into another congregation if you had a gun to my head. Besides, I have heard it all. 10 years of church twice on sundays, once on wednesdays, 5 days of bible class a week, and 3 chapel meetings a week. There isn't anything that could come out of a christian's mouth that I haven't heard. Except maybe the truth

 

I went with my girlfriend and her mom... halfway thru our relationship she became really religious



What is this rib thing ya'll are talking about?

 

i learned that men had one less rib than women, not that I believed the idiotic bible story, I just thought the christians used the story to jutify a biologic fact, when I was worng all along and just found out at age 32 that its not even true.

 

Haha I hate when that happens...

 

I think i remember them teaching that at school! WTF??

 

well woman was supposedly created from the rib of Adam, leaving the man with one less rib than the woman.

Going to a baptist school, most my friends/boyfriends would get religious on me at some point in our relationship. Then, of course, they felt it was their duty to convert me, and of course judge me. Worse yet, their parents were the same way. I could be myself for a while, then they would go to church one sunday and come home with this new zeal and tell me how terrible I was, and that their kids shouldn't hang out with me...the same parents that used to invite me to dinner before putting me on the phone with their son or daughter.

Not too hot for your mental health when you are young...

 

I promise everyone here that women and men have the same number of ribs...unless you are Marilyn Manson and had some removed (if the old rumor is true).

 

no one was very religious when i was in high school, in that way I feel lucky to have graduated high school in 1990, before this religious resurgence nonsense.

The only girl I remember asking me if I accepted Jesus and all that was a metal head girl who drank vodka everyday *rolls eyes like Souless II Chaos*