Our mother was raised a pretty rigid form of Southern Baptist--she wasn't allowed to dance or play games. (Yes, you can laugh at the horrible, horrible hypocrisy of the fixation on sin in a family rife with incest and rape.) She is still pretty devout in her faith in god, and owned multiple Bibles when we were kids, though I never saw her read them.
Dad however was a Jeffersonian Deist. He thought there was a god, but not really interested or involved with humanity. He also really never cared for church at all.
As a system, we range from agnostic to hardcore atheist. (With the exception of Mac, who is struggling with his faith in God after M.D.'s stay in a VERY Fire'n'Brimstone Hell.)
The only religion I've ever had any interest in was Judaism, because while various sects are just as douchey about trans shit, they at least have pondered the idea of nonhuman people, and what happens to them after they die. The Golem myths have always been deeply comforting to me, even though they tend to end very badly for the golem. But in one of my books, there was a note that the golem of Prague would have a share in the afterlife, even if it was questionably sapient, because it did good things, even at other people's behest. It was nice to think that somewhere, in some time, a bunch of scholars got together to debate what would happen to something like me after death.
So religious education had very little impact on us as kids. We felt like we were tainted from a very early age, so the idea of a God who loved us was completely unfathomable.
I DO have a MASSIVE hate-on for the abstinence only education I got as a kid. It might not have been overtly religious, but oh, I promise you, there was a LOT of Christian style misogyny built into it.
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Date: 2015-07-10 10:34 pm (UTC)Our mother was raised a pretty rigid form of Southern Baptist--she wasn't allowed to dance or play games. (Yes, you can laugh at the horrible, horrible hypocrisy of the fixation on sin in a family rife with incest and rape.) She is still pretty devout in her faith in god, and owned multiple Bibles when we were kids, though I never saw her read them.
Dad however was a Jeffersonian Deist. He thought there was a god, but not really interested or involved with humanity. He also really never cared for church at all.
As a system, we range from agnostic to hardcore atheist. (With the exception of Mac, who is struggling with his faith in God after M.D.'s stay in a VERY Fire'n'Brimstone Hell.)
The only religion I've ever had any interest in was Judaism, because while various sects are just as douchey about trans shit, they at least have pondered the idea of nonhuman people, and what happens to them after they die. The Golem myths have always been deeply comforting to me, even though they tend to end very badly for the golem. But in one of my books, there was a note that the golem of Prague would have a share in the afterlife, even if it was questionably sapient, because it did good things, even at other people's behest. It was nice to think that somewhere, in some time, a bunch of scholars got together to debate what would happen to something like me after death.
So religious education had very little impact on us as kids. We felt like we were tainted from a very early age, so the idea of a God who loved us was completely unfathomable.
I DO have a MASSIVE hate-on for the abstinence only education I got as a kid. It might not have been overtly religious, but oh, I promise you, there was a LOT of Christian style misogyny built into it.
--Rogan