I was born and raised in an Eastern Orthodox Christian family. Became a theistic Satanist in the 1980s - more specifically a Luciferian. It even got me a conscription exemption. Still one to this day.
Orthodox Christian. America is a confusing place for me too.
Non-participating Baha’i
Atheist/materialism, if you can consider that a religion.
Pastafarian
I am a lifelong atheist. I attend a very progressive christian church where I am open about my lack of belief. They seem to accept me, including the minister. I don’t try to convert them and they don’t try to convert me. I started going because I was lonely and I wanted some opportunities to do good. Their whole theology is about helping people and trying to change the world for the better. The two major precepts are “God is love” and “Jesus has no hands but yours.” They don’t talk about sin or redemption. We have a huge rainbow sign that says “All are welcome,” and we actually mean it. The minister talks about Jesus as a teacher, not as a saviour. We raise money and food for the local food bank, and provide community outreach to people, many of whom have disabilities. We sing. We eat cookies and drink absurd amounts of coffee. I suddenly have so many sweet old lady friends, and even a handful of friends my own age.
I’ve been athiest since I was a kid. The older I get the less I’m able to ignore religion, and the more anti-thiest I become.
Yup, I’ve seen religion directly cause far too much harm to excuse the small benefit it yields to some people. Especially fucking now.
More Nihilist than anything, if that can be considered a religion. I don’t know if there is anything past this life for us, so I can’t say for sure, so I just go with no. But obviously, I hope I’m so wrong. One day, the sun is gona expand far enough to engulf the whole earth. Literally, nothing will have ever mattered at that point. Makes my life a little easier every day when I think about pressures and stresses. A lot of people would think the opposite, but it allows me to live more in the moment. I don’t need some external pressure of being good or bad to determine how I treat people. I just do it because being nice is the right thing to do in most scenarios in life.
Atheist but follow certain christian… Or I guess they are a part of any religion values.
Stuff like “Don’t be evil”, “Respect all equally”, that kind of stuff…
I was raised as a strict Catholic, then stopped believing once I went to college and met people who challenged my worldview. Now I am agnostic. Not sure I want to call myself a definitive atheist, as I believe there COULD be something out there. However, if there is something out there, I don’t think it cares enough about this tiny blue dot in the entire universe.
Ex- orthodox brighamite Mormonism
Now atheist. 37yo, ~8years atheist
Raised Scandinavian protestant which basically means you don’t go to church unless someone died or got married.
Left the Church to avoid the membership fee.
Answering this question is about 1/3rd of my effort I’ve put into religion 2024.
None of the large churches in Scandinavia (Church of Denmark, Church of Norway, Church of Sweden, Church of Finland) are Protestant, they are Lutheran.
“None of the felidae are animals, they are mammals”
Lutherans are protestants
I just tried to correct a misstake that some people may take seriously, personally, I don’t care.
That’s not a mistake
Lutheranism is a type of protestantism
Absolutely, I don’t deny that at all, but it is defined as separate from protestantism
Lutheran is a substet of protestant
Yes?
Just as Sweden is a subset of Scandinavia.
Sometimes subsets are important.
Seventh-Day Adventist
none, unless you count the the satanic temple.
no reason to bring fantasy into reality
raised catholic but went agnostic early on. Now athiest but I like tst and buddhist philosophies. Not that other religions don’t have some philosophical apsects that are nice but the core ones of those I like.
Secular Buddhism. I’m not perfect, but I’m trying to be better.
