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Permalink Reply by beeky on July 31, 2008 at 7:27am

My parents were both raised Church of England but became Atheists in their early adulthood (before they met) so I was raised completely without religion since birth and of course I'm raising my children the same way.

Permalink Reply by Jon G. on July 31, 2008 at 6:36pm

My parents were religious (Methodists), but pretty liberal. My Mom said that it was important to have faith. So, she thought that atheists and agnostics were worst. Fundamentalists were not much better. She angrily defended evolution; angrily replied to some of the things my 8th grade Sunday School teacher "shared"; she was sure she didn't want to go to heaven if there were no butterflies; and she argued with Aunt Betty about the 2nd Coming (No Golden Trumpets; Jesus could be walking down the street right now). My Dad was a little more conservative, I think, but kept quiet about it. My Mom did not allow foul language though. She even chewed Dad out about that (my Dad was career Army, he probably had a hard time keeping his language clean). They were both active in the church, we went every week unless we were out of town, they both served on the church committee.

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