Who's what in your household?

[phrog]

My wife and I share in the mutual non-belief of Atheism. My father is almost as strong of an Atheist as I am while my mother, I'd have to say is Deist, she just can't accept our views totally, but shed her Mormon attachments years ago. My sister is also Atheist, and I'll never know about what my brother is. As long as there's women in his life he pretty much is apathetic about anything else..

Who's what's in you're household.

[stan2reason]

My wife has a trickle of belief left in her but I think it's overwhelmed by evidence to the contrary. My dad is an ex-Catholic from Europe and has been an atheist for years but never spoke of it until I brought it up recently. Other than that everyone in my family is either devoutly Seventh-day Adventist (Mom's side) or devoutly Catholic (Dad's crew). I have an uncle and a cousin who are theologians. I have wonderful, respectful, lively discussions with them. My mom is heartbroken over my atheism. :(

[aka d2]

My husband is struggling with non belief. I think he feels the way I feel, that god is a myth but his Catholic upbringing causes conflicts. (I also think he is afraid of his mother)

My parents are both dead but they were Catholics. My sisters are all still Catholics.

Help...I'm surrounded!!!!

[Aspirin99]

Well, my wife's parents are missionaries. She grew up as a missionary child in Spain. Her parents are currently missionaries in Germany. I have no idea why you need Baptist-type missionaries in Europe.

She has four brothers who are all Christians - one of them believes the OT stories are a myth, and he leans to mystical things. The rest are fundamentalists.

My grandmother and uncle are fundamentalist Pentecostals, as I used to be because of her taking me to church as a child.

My mother is agnostic, but she doesn't like to talk about religion that much.

My wife has come to believe that the Bible is completely fictional and the work of religious men, but she wants to hang on to her belief in God. I don't try to dissuade her, but we often listen to Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, etc. together and discuss it.

[formerfundie]

I am a lone atheist surrounded by a sea of fundamentalist christians (mostly baptist). My wife, kids, parents, in-laws, sister, cousins, nieces, nephews... the whole lot of them believers in the magic man.

[gulfcoastkid]

My biological family is very small; I'm 70 yrs young and have a 37 yr. old son, a 97 yr. old mother, and an estranged 40 yr. old daughter. My son is not religious, but I think he still holds on to a belief in god; my mother has never been a churchgoer, and doesn't have much to say on the subject. We live in different parts of the country so it's not a topic of conversation. I live with a lady who is Catholic, but seems to have fallen away somewhat. Her family is fairly large and all are Catholic except for one Jewish grandson-inlaw. As far as I know, none go to church (or synagog). They don't know exactly where I stand because they never asked.

[psychomonkey62]

My brother is atheist. My sister is still Catholic, as are my mom, dad, grandma, and all of my cousins. Which is fifteen people altogether.

[Kingreaper]

My fathers "Catholic". In the sense that he believes nothing the church teaches, and certainly doesn't go to mass, but is Irish, so he has to be.

My mother's a born again christian. The annoying kind, not the insane kind.

My brother and sister are both traditional english "oh, it's that "religion" stuff again, who cares?"

[stan2reason]

My fathers "Catholic". In the sense that he believes nothing the church teaches, and certainly doesn't go to mass, but is Irish, so he has to be.

LOL--I know where you're coming from there!

[Stumpy]

My wife's agnostic, I'm atheist. My mother is Southern Baptist (although she never goes to church) and my father died a Methodist. As far as the in-laws, the mother is non-practicing Catholic and who knows what my father in law is. He may be Buddhist, who knows?!?!?! Oh, and I'm pretty sure that my 3 dogs and 4 birds don't give a shit one way or the other.

[minorwork]

Me, I be a Surat Shabd student. I study the Logos. My ex always wondered why she was here. When I told her, she called me sick and went to her mother's. I'll let my present wife figure it out for herself. Me smarter(?) now.

[phrog]

Oh, and I'm pretty sure that my 3 dogs and 4 birds don't give a shit one way or the other.
My dog thinks she IS god, but then she is a bit dyslexic.

[SouthLoopAtheist]

My wife is agnostic. My in laws are Catholics. My father is a non practicing Mormon who borders on agnosticism. Mom, she's a deist, my sister, and my two brothers also would likely fit that description.

[psychomonkey62]

My dog thinks she IS god, but then she is a bit dyslexic.

I lol'ed. :D

[Stumpy]

My dog thinks she IS god, but then she is a bit dyslexic.
Smarter than my dogs... One barks at the wall, one eats his own turds and the other just farts really loudly. She'd be great for the next time your neighborhood has one of those prayer sessions.

[lorryfach]

My husband is an agnostic atheist.

My in-laws are the sort that would answer "yes" if you ask "do you believe in god?" but do pretty much nothing about it during the course of their everyday lives.

My cats believe in having plenty of surface to scratch, a lot of sleep, and getting at least one whole mackeral a week.

My parents are church-going Methodists. They aren't the kind that preach on sidewalks or anything, but they do assume that the bible is the basis for truth, and as such, it does come up in normal conversation.

One of my brothers is married to a Catholic and they are raising their daughter Catholic. To my knowledge he never converted to Catholicism, though.

I don't know about my other brother, but he's definitely not a religious person.

All of my grandparents are or were very religious Methodists. My maternal grandmother went to see Benny Hinn a lot, and watched TBN all day long. Both of my grandfathers were freemasons.

[chasm]

I'm a recovering catholic/atheist/humanist/militant agnostic ("I don't know and you don't either!"), the woman who sometimes lets me think I run things is agnostic/buddhist/new age, and the kids are both somewhere between militant atheists and apatheists (that's a damn handy term), depending on the mood that day. It makes for interesting dinner conversation sometimes.

The dog thinks I'm god, and when I get up to pee in the middle of the night and accidentally step on his tail in the dark, it's a punishment for his misdeeds (he's a black lab - it's gonna happen sometimes).

[deltagear]

Well my family is mostly atheist, it was an easy environment to grow up in.

[SouthLoopAtheist]

Update: My wife told me yesterday that she considers herself an atheist now!
Perhaps we need to raise a child, so they can be an atheist too! The world could always use another atheist! :p But I think we'll stick with our two Pugs, Rocco and Chloe. I'm pretty sure they are atheist!:rolleyes:

[meanjean29]

My wife is strangely indifferent/ambivalent/or What I don't know. She laughs and agrees when I bring up the nonsense of my bible-thumping sisters and brothers (we were brought up Catholic, but I'm the only one who did not become a raving evangelist), but at the same time she keeps insisting that my atheism is a phase. ??? She didn't really grow up with a religious background like I did. When I bring up the question of disbelief with her she actually gets mad and tells me to "get out of the phase I'm in" and move on. Cripes!
To make matters worse, she believes that dreams foretell future events (how many hours of faked listening have I gone through?) and even faithfully reads the daily horoscopes. Last time I checked she is not from Marin County, CA.

[minorwork]

Dreams, huh? She don't go by "Angel42" does she? Check out this discussion I got involved in at the "Physics and Math" forum. Science of Visions.
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=186201

Some of the guys got into a testosterone induced quantum theory crap fight. Of course, I took the, uh, "high" road. Pretty good stuff there, all in all. I think the thread starter kinda' got lost in the dust.

[Bunterx]

My parents have little religion as far as I know. They would say they are Protestant but have never taken me to church. My little sister of 10 years goes to church with her friend whose mother offered to take her. My brother of 14 years I have no idea. I don't think he has ever given it much thought.

Now that I think about it, I know very few members of my family who actually go to church =/.

[nosuch]

I have two brothers, one sister, and divorced non-remarried parents. All of them are Mormon. I'm pretty sure I've never been Mormon, even if I was fooled into believing I was. I think all of my family have the potential to turn eventually, but for some reason or another, they all still feel they need a god.

Happy general conference to all you ex-mo, by the way. I'm totally atheist, but the closing music is always damn powerful.