PARENTS

[mamajill]

wondering what your own parents practice. I went to lunch with my mom and Malachi yesterday and listened to the Circle Round CD in the car. She loved it. I was raised very nature respecting. My mom explains her idea of god like Dan Brown- religion, science, nature, all in one. She bought me Drawing Down the Moon in high school and gave it to me with her fantastic notes in it.
Anyway, it was interesting talking to her yesterday about teaching Malachi religion and history so he can have the knowledge to choose whatever path he wants as he grows.

[Beadermom73]

My father was raised Jewish, but is really an Atheist as far as I can tell. . .he really doesn't seem to care or need a spiritual life.  That confuses me, but it's up to him.:)  My Mom was raised Christian but converted to marry my Dad, and then also sort of drifted away.  She's now a yogi and more spiritual than religious.  They were Unitarians for a while but drifted from that also when the wonderful minister there retired.

My folks are pretty open to diversity in religion, which is good for me (though Dad  may never understand the Wiccan thing, I can talk about it with Mom.)

[Jennifer7206]

My dad is an atheist and my mom is christian(non practicing).  I got into wicca about 10 years ago and no one really had a problem.  I think my mom would rather me keep it to myself, but she doesnt object to me teaching my son.  They are pretty open minded. 

I do have several right wing evangelicals in my family that think George Bush is the man!  I dont think that I have ever been so far from understanding a certain sect of people in my life.  I have tolerence and empathy for all living things, but the evangelicals are just beyond my comprhension.  They are way weird!

[MamaApio]

My dad is also atheist.  I always considered my mom non-practicing Christian, but recently she has taken a real interest in Wicca.  I have to admit I am very impressed with her openness to it all.  We do have a long history of witches in our family though, so I'm not too surprised about it.  My aunt is very into Shamanism.  Even my grandmother who is a dyed in the wool Christian is pretty open to a lot of it all.  She even smudges her house from time to time!

[Shayla0208]

My dad is a 'here and now' kind of person. Like both Beadermom73 and Jennifer7206 ~ and MamaApio (we must've been posting at the same time!), I suspect he's Atheist ~ or at least an uncurious Agnostic. I think this is partly due to my grandmother (his mom) who is uber-Christian.

My mom is a general Christian. She prays every night, but she doesn't attend church or make a big deal out of being a Christian.

Both of them are supportive of me in general, but both are very non-commital about my spiritual beliefs. My dad is because spirituality isn't important to him. I think my mom is uncomfortable with my beliefs. Not non-supportive, just uncomfortable. So I don't really talk to either one about spirituality.

[joyfulliving]

My parents are very conservative, fear based Christians.  I started going to Unity Church a number of years ago, at the time rather "out there" for them.  My mom would make little comments here and there.  My grandparents were discouraged from coming to my children's baptisms because my parents didn't want them to know.  As we are integrating a nature based faith into our own family we haven't shared it with our extended families.  I have a fear that if my mother ever finds out she will kidnap my kids.  Sadly this is something she has "joked" about with both my brother and me.  You hear it enough and you know it is a reality.  When I was a young adult my mother would tell me "you're going to Hell for this or that", one day I finally told her you can only go once so I might as well make it worth the trip.  She didn't think that was funny, however I did and she stopped saying it.  My grandparents disowned my cousin because he became a Catholic, they are Lutheran.  All in all we keep to ourselves when it comes to religion.  I am becoming an ordained minister this summer, my mother is already freaking out about that and in her own way letting me know not to tell the family!!  Oh yeah, I'm the dysfuntional one!!

Blessed Be

[bbsweetie1525]

I dont even know what my mom is, she is more spiritual than anything.  My dad is Christian but doesn't believe you can find God in a Church but out with nature.  I wasn't really raised with religion.  My father's family is Mormon and Christian but they tend to not go to church or anything.  My moms is fairly strictly Luthern.  They were the only ones I was worried about knowing my faith, but if they can all handle my cousin being gay I think they can handle me not being Christian (I would hope at least).

[Lillette]

My dad was raised catholic but until recently i didnt think he had a real interest at all.....My mom was raised Episcopalian (sp?) but semi coverted to catholic when she married my dad (at the request of his mother) and taught preschool ccd ... we started out catholic but mom didnt want to inforce it... we all made our first communion but that was all mom had agreed to so she didnt push it anymore..... my parents are really open minded so we were taught about lots of religions.... we have a little menorah as well as the typical xmas tree and a rather extensive manger/bethlaham set (i think it is up to 200 pieces.... we add to it every year)....we also have an xmas pickle LOL (its a swedish tradtion i think, the parents hid the "pickle" in the xmas tree and who ever finds it gets a special gift).... now my mom is studying wicca.... i have been studying all aspects of "witchcraft" for about 10 years or so.....