Hey I was just wondering who else out there has different beliefs from their parents. Right now I'm a non-denominational christian and my parents are catholic. It's kind of hard because they don't understand why I'm changing my views and why my life is starting to change.

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im methodist my mum is mormon and my step dad was raised catholic my birth dad is also mormon

i am a Christian. my parents are buddhists. WEll as expected , we totally collided. but God has already forewarned those who would follow Him will surely have some difficulties adjusting to it. i am a Christian for 1 yr and 8 months now and I thank God that i am still able to retain my faith despite that even my relatives are totally different from me.. they make fun of me and sometimes malign our presiding minister for washing our brains and that he is just making money out of his victims. i know what the truth is.. and if God will help me.. i hope i could finish this race .

My parents are athiests. My mom's parents were agnostics, and my dad's parents were die-hard catholic. But they're both athiest. My older sister is a witch, and I'm a poco ennuist, of my own religion. Learn about it here:
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Yes, my sister is a witch. She is a fiance to a witch (a dude witch).

I was brought up French-Roman Catholic..I have not practice same since I was 12..

I now consider myself on a more personal spiritual journey..one day at a time..not so much religious as meditative..inspirational..

Well, my mom's a christian
My dad doesn't like any religions
And I'm Wiccan

My parents are both hardcore religious people.
I believe in what I know to be true.

No, we are all non-denominational. It always seems harder for your on family to except that you believe a different religion than your friends or strangers sometime.

My family is Roman-Catholic.

I do not attend church much with them anymore. I am not big on religious activities either. I go to public school, but people think something is wrong with me, because I am Catholic, and the all are Christian Reformed. I really do not care though and find it disrespectful. I am kinda at a crossroads with religions at the moment, still thinking through the whole concepts.

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Now I'm hovering around agnosticism, but not quite

I know you wrote this a long time ago but i just noticed it, and it is very funny :-D how can you 'hover around agnosticism' and not be agnostic!? unless you're an agnostic agnostic

On the topic, i'm part of a long line of athiests...even my grandma doesn't believe.

My dad is a huge Christian, while my mom is what most people would call a New Ager. I've always identified more with my mom, and her beliefs have always made more sense to me than my ada's. He tries to convert us to Christianity, no matter how many times we explain our beliefs and that we are not Christian. So I am a New Ager, I guess, like my mom...

Well my parents are very strong believers and belong to a baptist church. They are very close minded when it comes to thinking about other religions or thoughts of life and when I first started questioning my bliefs and my devotion to the baptist church they were really upset. I still believe in the way of the baptist church to some extent but I consider myself liberal in which my family is pretty conservative so we have some different opinions on different topics. I enjoy being different from them because that way we discuss why we believe what we believe instead of just assuming that we are the same on every level.

My family is all Roman-Catholic

I'm christian, but I'm not big on churches

My parents are fairly devout Lutherans, although they've been attending a Nazarene church for the past couple of months (nicer people than the Lutheran church). I profess no religion, but I still tag along on Sunday mornings if only because I don't have anything else to do (and I don't want to argue about it). It's not too bad, but the more sermons I listen to, the more unappealing Christianity seems, which odd considering I used to be about as devout as my parents not too long ago. I guess things that seemed fine on the inside begin to sound odd when you're on the outside.

well my dad doesnt even have a religion.
but i do, so i think its fine, but some parents dont understand why we believe in different stuff and may look at us differently. but its your life right? your opinion. your choice.

My mother is an agnotic with taints of christianity and some kabala and budism mixed in, a theological mutant if you will.
The rest of my family(sister, father, me) is completely atheist, so more than me not sharing my parents faith it's she who kinda stands out among us.

I was baptized in the Catholic Church, have had several years of Catholic School (now in public) and religious education. But their beliefs and belief systems just don't seem to work for me. One of my really good friends is a Quaker, and they seem so accepting and peace-oriented and loving. I have attended Meeting with my friend's family a few times, and it is a really small community and feels like a family. I think that that is where i belong, but my parents say that while I live with them, I go to their church. They also no longer like my friend because they think she is trying to convert me. I want a place to fit in. So, although I can't change my religion, I do have different beliefs than my parents.

I would have to say I have no idea what my father is. I mean his mon is Jewish, but he never really got into religion. I've never even seen him go to church. My mom was rasied in the church, but she's not extremely religious. I'm a Methodist Christian, but I regulary attend a Presbyterian church now. It's so weird though, because I was raised in church and never missed a Sunday. Now I go when I really feel like going. People in the church have turned me off from going, but I still study the bible alone.

My Mom is Catholic, she raised me and my brother Catholic. Because my dads like nothing, it kinda makes me sad my dad dosent come to church wit us *heather*

Me and my sisters were raised as Muslims by our devout Muslim father.. and our devout Christian mother. It was kind of weird growing up with a mother who had a completely different set of beliefs from ours but I never really felt the difference. To me we were always a Muslim family, my mom never really acted any different from us so I was in denial about the whole thing for years and years. And then once I decided to accept that she was a Christian it was like Ok then who's going to hell, her or us? (to put it really bluntly) That's always in the back of your mind when you have a parent of a different faith, or at least if you're religious. Who's right and who's wrong? But she's the most wonderful person I've ever met and I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's considerate, she's polite, she's modest and hardworking and she NEVER complains and she NEVER loses her temper and the worst word I've ever heard her say was crap. So I figure that God doesn't put people like that in hell, no matter what religion they are officially. She's always been the best Muslim I've ever met.

And in January, like a few months after I came to terms with everything, she converted to Islam... which was really weird for me and I was like the only one in my family who didn't see it coming. Go figure. She said she had been thinking about it for a really really long time but she wanted to make sure that she was actually convinced and not just doing it to make us happy, so that's another reason why she's the best person ever. And she did so much research it's scary, I've been a Muslim my whole life and she knows so much more about my religion then me. The day she told us she was converting, she just looked so relieved like this huge weight had been lifted; I'm happy she's happy.