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What is your religion?
« on: October 08, 2010, 05:42:07 PM »
Really just curious where everyone falls religion-wise assuming that you belong to a religion.


I was baptized as a baby in the Episcopal church. I got married in the Episcopal church (boy do you have to jump through some hoops to do that  :p , but a couple of years ago my husband and I converted to Methodist. I really enjoy the Methodist church. I feel quite comfortable there. It isn't too different (ceremony-wise) than the Episcopal church I went to. We baptized our baby girl in the Methodist church.

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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2010, 05:50:53 PM »
I'm Methodist also. My wife was dead set, die hard Baptist but didn't go to church often when we started dating. She changed over and goes every Sunday now. She teaches a kids Sunday school class, sings in the choir, is on several committees and a couple of other things. Several people have told me what a blessing she has been to the church.....the old heathen scored a good one.... :-)
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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2010, 05:58:50 PM »
I'm Methodist also. My wife was dead set, die hard Baptist but didn't go to church often when we started dating. She changed over and goes every Sunday now. She teaches a kids Sunday school class, sings in the choir, is on several committees and a couple of other things. Several people have told me what a blessing she has been to the church.....the old heathen scored a good one.... :-)

That's great. We have a husband and wife team as preachers of our church. The wife grew up hardcore Baptist. She changed to Methodist when she met her husband and is an excellent preacher. So inspiring.

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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2010, 06:26:10 PM »
I am a cradle to grave Catholic -- like pretty much 80% of the MA population. 


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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2010, 07:13:53 PM »
I am a cradle to grave Catholic -- like pretty much 80% of the MA population. 



My grandfather was Catholic until they demanded he send his daughters to Catholic school. He wanted them to go to public school. They did elementary at the Catholic school, but for high school, he thought the best education lied in the public school. They threatened to excommunicate him if he didn't send them to the Catholic school (true story, long time ago, but true), so he left the church and went with what he thought was the closest thing to it, which is how I ended up being baptized in the Episcopal church.

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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2010, 07:20:11 PM »
Baptized Catholic.

In my 20s, I decided I knew more than 2,000 years of tradition and fell away from the church.

I'm back.
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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2010, 07:30:13 PM »
I am a Christian,I believe that Jesus is God in the flesh of a man sent to atone for our sins by His willing sacrifice/death on the cross.

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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2010, 07:31:15 PM »
Baptized Catholic.

In my 20s, I decided I knew more than 2,000 years of tradition and fell away from the church.

I'm back.

Everyone has to find themselves. I don't think it is a bad thing to step back and observe and think. Many of us were raised in a certain religion, and that was all we knew. I knew my church was very different than the Baptist churches. I had a friend that I would go to her church with on Sundays when I spent the night with her. Finally I asked her to come to church with me. Her mother refused to let her come to my church. I didn't understand it at the time. I thought "it is church, why not?", but now I see. My mother always let me see what other churches were about. I realized my church was actually more traditional than hers when I went to Methodist and Catholic churches. And I also realized I will never deny my child the chance to see what other churches are like. If I do my job as a parent, she will be instilled with what it takes to make a good decision when she is older.

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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2010, 07:34:20 PM »
I am a Christian,I believe that Jesus is God in the flesh of a man sent to atone for our sins by His willing sacrifice/death on the cross.

And in the end, that is all that matters.

 

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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2010, 07:43:33 PM »
I am a Christian,I believe that Jesus is God in the flesh of a man sent to atone for our sins by His willing sacrifice/death on the cross.

Ditto.
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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2010, 08:40:14 PM »
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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2010, 08:47:25 PM »
Raised Baptist (but then I got saved.)  Sorry, couldn't help it.....was raised Baptist, never got baptized because I got kicked out of Baptist school, for being petulant and disrespectful.  I was EIGHT!  So, since then, I have attended Catholic Church (I can say a rosary in French!), Methodist, Unity, and some others I am forgetting, but am not a member of any church.  I don't think I ever will be either.  Nothing against organized religion, or church....it just doesn't seem to be my "thing." 
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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2010, 09:02:57 PM »
I was baptized in the Presbyterian church, but I'm now Orthodox Christian.  I attend a Greek Orthodox church, but don't have smidgen of Greek in me, but then neither does about half the congregation.  The Priest and his family are Korean.

IassaFTots, I learned the Hail Mary in French at my Catholic high school, I only remember the first line now, but that is about all I know in English as well.  I can almost say the Lord's Prayer in Greek. 



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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2010, 09:05:16 PM »
I can say the Lord's Prayer in Old English; as extinct languages go, I like it better than in the Latin!
Let nothing trouble you,
Let nothing frighten you. 
All things are passing;
God never changes.
Patience attains all that it strives for.
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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #14 on: October 08, 2010, 09:05:41 PM »
Raised Baptist (but then I got saved.)  Sorry, couldn't help it.....was raised Baptist, never got baptized because I got kicked out of Baptist school, for being petulant and disrespectful.  I was EIGHT!  So, since then, I have attended Catholic Church (I can say a rosary in French!), Methodist, Unity, and some others I am forgetting, but am not a member of any church.  I don't think I ever will be either.  Nothing against organized religion, or church....it just doesn't seem to be my "thing." 

I gotcha, and I kinda agree with you. I did want my daughter to have a church to go to. I found one that I think fits me best. My husband agrees. She will be free to make her own mind up when she is ready.

I have been to many different churches. I think that has helped me decide which one fit me best. Or which one I felt the most comfortable and agreeable with.

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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #15 on: October 08, 2010, 10:13:45 PM »
Mine is the religion that says God created man in His own image.

































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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #16 on: October 08, 2010, 11:03:23 PM »
Baptized in the Episcopal Church when very young, grew up attending a "High" Episcopal Church.

Went to Catholic Church all through college and after until I married another Episcopalian. Kids were baptized as infants in the Episcopal Church and raised Episcopalians. Older one now attends one of those mega-non denominational churches which works for them as her husband was raised Baptist. Younger one still an mostly non-practicing Episcopalian.

Went back to Catholic when M and I started dating almost 17 years ago, and cannot see changing as the Catholic Church we attend is most like the Episcopal Church I grew up in, unlike the southern Episcopal churches I have attended NC and here in TN.
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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #17 on: October 09, 2010, 05:13:01 AM »
My grandfather was Catholic until they demanded he send his daughters to Catholic school. He wanted them to go to public school. They did elementary at the Catholic school, but for high school, he thought the best education lied in the public school. They threatened to excommunicate him if he didn't send them to the Catholic school (true story, long time ago, but true), so he left the church and went with what he thought was the closest thing to it, which is how I ended up being baptized in the Episcopal church.


Who is "they."   You are young so I would imagine your grandfather is probably younger or about the same age as my mother -- I therefore am shocked by this story.  Excommunicated for attending public school?    I can't imagine that happening.   

There are a lot of reasons to leave the Catholic church, but this one is hard for me to believe. 

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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #18 on: October 09, 2010, 01:51:26 PM »
Who is "they."   You are young so I would imagine your grandfather is probably younger or about the same age as my mother -- I therefore am shocked by this story.  Excommunicated for attending public school?    I can't imagine that happening.   

There are a lot of reasons to leave the Catholic church, but this one is hard for me to believe. 

I, too, am a little shocked by this story. When I was in Kindergarten, we had a kid from the local Catholic Church enrolled there. He was a spoiled little brat and I ultimately wound up kicking his ass. The Kindergarten was run by the Episcopal Church.
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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #19 on: October 10, 2010, 05:29:53 PM »
Who is "they."   You are young so I would imagine your grandfather is probably younger or about the same age as my mother -- I therefore am shocked by this story.  Excommunicated for attending public school?    I can't imagine that happening.   

There are a lot of reasons to leave the Catholic church, but this one is hard for me to believe. 

He would be 88 if he were alive. It happened. I am not making it up. He was a big contributor to the church, and they demanded (they being the heads of this particular church) he send his children to Catholic school, and he refused. He left the church.

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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #20 on: October 10, 2010, 05:41:07 PM »
He would be 88 if he were alive. It happened. I am not making it up. He was a big contributor to the church, and they demanded (they being the heads of this particular church) he send his children to Catholic school, and he refused. He left the church.

He's about 9 years older than my mother.  He should have just complained to the Bishop -- if steady Teddy was never excommunicated, your grandfather certainly never would have been.   

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« Reply #21 on: October 10, 2010, 05:47:23 PM »
He's about 9 years older than my mother.  He should have just complained to the Bishop -- if steady Teddy was never excommunicated, your grandfather certainly never would have been.   

I am sure he wouldn't have been excommunicated. It was probably an empty threat, but it made him so mad, he left. He changed his whole feelings on the Catholic church because of that. He ended up being extremely happy he left and found the Episcopal church. He was a very prominent person in the community, and I think that is what made the church mad. Either way, if that hadn't happened, I may have been Catholic as a child.

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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #22 on: October 11, 2010, 08:12:44 AM »
I am sure he wouldn't have been excommunicated. It was probably an empty threat, but it made him so mad, he left. He changed his whole feelings on the Catholic church because of that. He ended up being extremely happy he left and found the Episcopal church. He was a very prominent person in the community, and I think that is what made the church mad. Either way, if that hadn't happened, I may have been Catholic as a child.

When my French Grandfather was on his death bed he requested a Priest.   The intire family was stunned and confused.

He had been excommunicated when he married my Protestant Grandmother.

All those years he had attended weddings, funerals and Protestant baptisms of his family but would not step foot in a Catholic Church for any reason.

This was a few years after the Vatican changed the services to turn the priest around to face the Congregation and abolished the Latin service.

A young Progressive Priest showed up and to our amazement told all of us that even if the Church had ticked him off, he should have attended another Christian Church, but he administrated the last Rites and it put my Grandfather so at ease he recovered until his death a couple of years later.

Mother told me that to be born a Catholic was to die a Catholic but I have found this one of the few times she has been wrong.

Hubby was one of 7 born into an Irish, Italian family in the Boston area, 3 boys 4 girls.

Out of all those kids only 2 of the girls attend Mass.  The rest of the kids believe in GOD or so they say but none can explain WHY or give it a thought.

It is embarrassing for me to on a religious occasion, wedding or funeral, that Hubby depends on me to say the Hail Marys as few of his siblings can remember them.

I knew this as I sent my kids to Parochial schools and this was part of their homework.




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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #23 on: October 11, 2010, 01:15:48 PM »
I converted to Buddism over the weekend......looking into monastic tours of Tibet for next years vacation......

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« Reply #24 on: October 11, 2010, 03:40:18 PM »
I converted to Buddism over the weekend......looking into monastic tours of Tibet for next years vacation......

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