I believe in a higher power but not exactly g-d. I need actual proof of something this great. When it comes time for g-d to stand in front of me, I will believe in him. I was not raised believing this, my family is Jewish. I'm not really sure when i started doubting the existence of the all powerful g-d. I have a feeling it was quite young. I like hearing other peoples views.
- Jamie, NJ
I don't identify myself as anything. I don't think about or deal with religion enough to consider myself anything. It never really made sense to me to believe that there is a "god" or higher power. I never saw any proof that a god of any sort existed. And truthfully, any religious people that I encountered were very unaccepting of beliefs other than theirs, seemed to like rubbing their opinions in everyone's faces, and many of them were actually kind of mean whenever I questioned anything so I wanted nothing to do with them. My grandparents identify as Christian Catholics and they paid for my schooling, so I went to a Catholic grade school from pre-school to 8th grade, but my parents didn't practice and we never went to church outside of when it was required for school. I actually used to get in trouble because of it because for a few years my religion class had required weekly homework where we had to tell where/when we went to church outside of school and describe the sermon and what we learned from it. I can never really remember believing in the church or religion. It never really interested me, I never really paid attention, and I never really got into practicing. In 6th grade, I remember trying to get into religion but I couldn't keep it up!
- Carrie, 21, IL
I don't really identify as anything. I guess I believe in some form of a 'god' but it isn't the all-knowing being I was raised to believe in. It's more of the driving force behind what got everything started, I guess. I'm not even sure it classifies as a god. I spent a long time rethinking about what I was raised to believe and found that I identified less and less with Catholicism as I grew older and I stopped trying to make it fit. There were just too many things I disagreed with so I started believing in something that made sense to me, though I don't really know what it is.
No I was not raised believing this, but I was raised to challenge what I believe in. And while I'm not ready to tell my parents I've turned my back on Catholicism completely, I have told them that I was rethinking it and they were glad to hear I wasn't blindly following something. I think I officially decided that I was absolutely no longer Catholic sometime last year, though I can't be sure because I've been thinking on it for a few years now. Maybe it's because my own thoughts on the matter are so unclear, but I'm very open to most opinions on this topic and am interested in the different beliefs held by everybody. I do, though, have a hard time really respecting the opinion of somebody who is unwilling to entertain the thought that their viewpoint could be wrong, whether it's anti-religious or religious.
- Katie, Ohio
I don't identify myself as anything. I don't think about or deal with religion enough to consider myself anything. It never really made sense to me to believe that there is a "god" or higher power. I never saw any proof that a god of any sort existed. And truthfully, any religious people that I encountered were very unaccepting of beliefs other than theirs, seemed to like rubbing their opinions in everyone's faces, and many of them were actually kind of mean whenever I questioned anything so I wanted nothing to do with them. My grandparents identify as Christian Catholics and they paid for my schooling, so I went to a Catholic grade school from pre-school to 8th grade, but my parents didn't practice and we never went to church outside of when it was required for school. I actually used to get in trouble because of it because for a few years my religion class had required weekly homework where we had to tell where/when we went to church outside of school and describe the sermon and what we learned from it. I can never really remember believing in the church or religion. It never really interested me, I never really paid attention, and I never really got into practicing. In 6th grade, I remember trying to get into religion but I couldn't keep it up!
- Carrie, 21, IL
I don't really identify as anything. I guess I believe in some form of a 'god' but it isn't the all-knowing being I was raised to believe in. It's more of the driving force behind what got everything started, I guess. I'm not even sure it classifies as a god. I spent a long time rethinking about what I was raised to believe and found that I identified less and less with Catholicism as I grew older and I stopped trying to make it fit. There were just too many things I disagreed with so I started believing in something that made sense to me, though I don't really know what it is.
No I was not raised believing this, but I was raised to challenge what I believe in. And while I'm not ready to tell my parents I've turned my back on Catholicism completely, I have told them that I was rethinking it and they were glad to hear I wasn't blindly following something. I think I officially decided that I was absolutely no longer Catholic sometime last year, though I can't be sure because I've been thinking on it for a few years now. Maybe it's because my own thoughts on the matter are so unclear, but I'm very open to most opinions on this topic and am interested in the different beliefs held by everybody. I do, though, have a hard time really respecting the opinion of somebody who is unwilling to entertain the thought that their viewpoint could be wrong, whether it's anti-religious or religious.
- Katie, Ohio
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