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Originally Posted by Gusteau
This thread is particularly interesting to me because I'm fascinated with how people form their faith, especially in relation to the faith of their parents. My entire family is Catholic, and both my parents are very faithful people - my Dad more so as he gets older. However, faith was never something we talked about much it was kind of just something we did. As a result my sister and I are pretty solid Catholics (or at least trying to be). The same thing happened with political views - my parents NEVER spoke about politics with us, yet we both have political views fairly similar to those of our parents. I often find that the people who are very vocal and strict about faith often have children who move away from the faith of their childhood. So I guess all that rambling is me saying I would love to hear more stories about faith formation - lol.
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Gusteau, I think you're onto something here.
I was raised in a very strict Catholic family. My father is such a strict Catholic that my mother has told me that she's surprised he didn't become a priest. I was baptized within a month of birth - I'm surprised they didn't just bring the priest and the font into the delivery room. Mass every Sunday (or Saturday vigil), confession every week once I was old enough, no meat on Friday even if it wasn't Lent, Catholic school from pre-K through 5th grade and then CCD until I was confirmed at the end of 8th grade. I was Catholic and that was that.
After having Catholicism rammed down my throat for my entire childhood, I rebelled big time. Long story short, Judaism resonated with me, so I converted.
The same thing happened with politics. I'm left-of-center but not exceedingly so. My parents are so far to the right they make Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin look like screaming liberals.
Sometimes the apple not only falls far from the tree, it falls so far away that it ends up in a different orchard.
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