What I mean is people who grew up in a non-religious environment, not people who didn't believe. I know a lot of people will comment here to say they went to church but didn't believe. That's not what I'm asking. I want to know about the people who grew up in families that were not religious in any way (like mine).
I was never religious. I have great respect for those that were and left it behind.
My mother took us to Sunday school, I think as a “let them see it and decide for themselves” kind of thing. It never made a lick of sense to me, and after a while the teacher just stopped calling on me because I kept asking logical questions he couldn’t answer. By the time I was in high school I just stopped going and Mom didn’t object.
i was not always an atheist (not until i was 15) but i was nonetheless never religious. i was raised in a secular jewish family. we were so irreligious, despite a strong cultural identity, that it wasn't until, as an adult, i phoned my folks from all the way across the country to ask them whether they believed in god that i found out that my mom wasn't sure but thought she did and my dad wasn't sure but thought he didn't. we'd never talked about it.
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I'd guess I'd fit the bill here, brought up by an atheist father who was married to a Theistic woman who PHYSICALLY forced me to attend EVER available Sunday School from which, by the time I was 10 years old I had been EXPELLED from for merely asking questions because I wanted answers and also EXPELLED from Primary School Scripture Classes for exactly the same reason.
Praised by my father for my curiosity, cursed by my 'mother' for being a Heretic, Heathen, etc, etc, I have remained a staunch Atheists all of my life and shall remain so even on my death-bed.
Yep it's probably more common in UK I'd imagine. Religion never got mentioned at home. We had morning assemblies etc in school but by the time I was old enough to know what the hell was going on I also realised it was just some story, and not a very exciting one. I figured it out quite a bit sooner than the Santa thing...
Me.
I was fortunately enough to not have been brought up in a religious family.
pretty much although when I was little I assume I sort of believed because all the adults seemed to
I attended Sunday school and then church every Sunday from the age of 5 to 16 but it never meant anything to me. It was just another not very pleasant task like washing the dishes or bringing in firewood.
I actively started researching the Abrahamic religions a few years ago when I had a church going girlfriend who tried to interest me in her "faith". The more I know about those religions the more I dislike them
Not me, I was a presbyterian until I left school in my teen years...but my parents were not religious people.