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Post by It's Me! on Oct 10, 2004 23:23:08 GMT -5
Hi. My dad's nuts. I'm an atheist. Well, I like the title materialist better. I came to this forum to find people l can relate to. I'd really love to meet somone with a background similiar to mine:
My biological father was in Baptist seminary when he had a "particularly dramatic psychotic break". My mother divorced him soon after. I was one year old. My mom remarried when I was eleven. She met her next husband at 'Uno'--a Methodist singles club. They went into Methodist seminary together and became preachers.
I'll post more (not that life-story trash) about my opinions on Jebus later.
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Post by Superhappyjen on Oct 11, 2004 11:25:28 GMT -5
Welcome to the board It's Me.
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Post by droskey on Oct 11, 2004 12:47:10 GMT -5
Hi It's Me. Welcome to the board. I don't know what it's like to have deeply religious parents (let alone parents in ministry) but I do know about fundamental, evangelical Christianity and how it is getting out of that. I look forward to reading your posts about Jebus and other things.  Cheers, Dan |
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Post by It's Me! on Oct 11, 2004 18:21:37 GMT -5
Thanks for the welcome Superhappyjen.
Jacopo7351, I guess you were recruited, just wondering how you got into it if your parents were not.
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Post by Hilly on Oct 11, 2004 18:52:56 GMT -5
Welcome It's Me. I also have a relative with some mental issues. It can be very trying at times. I also have, or I should say had a relative who was a preacher. My Grandfather was a United Church Minister. He baptized me.  He died when I was quite young so he would'nt have known I grew up to be an atheist. |
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Post by Superhappyjen on Oct 12, 2004 0:37:26 GMT -5
My grandmother on my mom's side is always wondering (out loud) how I can be an atheist, when her uncle was a Catholic Priest and my grandfather's uncle was a Protestant Minister. Also one of my old dead relatives on my Dad's side was a methodist (I think) preacher who wrote some books about how great his religion was. With all this religiousness in my blood it's a wonder I'm not a jesusfreak. (although there are also quite a few doctors among my old dead relatives and I'm not in any way inclined towards medical science).
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Post by AuntieSocial on Oct 12, 2004 7:07:59 GMT -5
Hey It's Me!! Welcome aboard.
I have a VERY Christain family, although it did not extend to my parents.
On my mother's side:
Grandfather was the adult "Sunday School Teacher" - he was a layperson who did the sermons when the minister was away. - Free Methodist
Grandmother - Church Organist
Uncle #1 - really devoted to his church
Uncle #2 - Pentecostal Assembly of Canada (PAC) minister, missionary - he (and his family) have been in Mozambique and Brazil on & off for years and he will be moving (permanently) to South Africa in the next few months
Uncle #3 - Former PAC Minister. Had to leave the ministry after getting a divorce because his wife (the organist) had an affaire with his best friend). He is now living in Texas and is married to a relation of one of Bush's "spiritual advisors."
Going back further on my maternal grandmother's side, we have several people who have believed they had been visited by angels and divinely inspired to write hymns and poetry ...
My mother is what I would term a "the world is complex & beautiful, there must be a God" theist.
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Post by droskey on Oct 12, 2004 18:39:52 GMT -5
It's Me
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Post by droskey on Oct 12, 2004 18:42:54 GMT -5
It's Me
When I was about 7, we lived next to a guy who took part in a bus ministry with a local independent Baptist church. Many churches, especially those of the evangelical variety, have bus ministries. They drive the bus around and take kids to church. It's a recruiting tool. He asked my mom if my sister and I would like to go to church. My mom asked us and we said ok. So we took the bus to church and it was downhill from there. About twenty years later I gave up my faith.
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He died when I was quite young so he would'nt have known I grew up to be an atheist.