Have you ever been religious, if so what religion and denomination?

[IcyBabe]

I grew up Lutheran and when I was a teenager was a little too adamant about it lol easily would have been the type to get my ass banned from here in a heartbeat...however nowadays, although I feel religion does SOME good in the world and has SOME good messages, for the most part I firmly believe it's backwards, illogical, far fetched and just breeds hate and intolerance.   

[Heisenberg]

I grew up Jew-ish. While I did have a Bar Mitzvah, it was in a reformed synagogue and I have pretty much not believed in god since I was old enough to think. My parents sort of made me do it, though I never protested nearly as much as I could have and at the end of the day I walked away with a nice sum of money from the ordeal. That's basically how I look back on it.

Now I just celebrate some of the Jewish holidays for family purposes, but I'm not overly fond of religion in general. In most cases, I think it's just not good for the mind.

[fester30]

I grew up Missouri Synod Lutheran (we called it Catholic Lite because it was sit, stand, kneel, repeat after me).  Also tried Catholic, Presbyterian, Assembly of God (pentecostal without the jean skirts), Methodist, Southern Baptist, and non-denominational.  I kept bouncing around because nothing ever felt right; they all had their little quirks that just didn't mesh with what it seemed the Bible was saying.  After watching Religulous last year and subsequently reading A LOT of stuff, I found out why nothing ever felt right.  So we all create God in our image, because we all want to believe that he has the same values as us.  Atheism was the closest thing to that, because it was the only time I found a God that had the same views as me.  I am that god!!!!

[Ali]

I've never even been to a wedding... Or a christening. Is there good, free food? Because if there is, I might just go next time I'm invited... Well, not to a christening, as that's pretty damned close to child abuse in my book, but weddings and funerals... Why not?  

Weddings usually include free food AND free booze AND dancing.  You should totally go.  Weddings (or anyway, the reception part) are usually a hoot.

ETA:  Oh yeah.  I was going to answer the original question.  I was raised Evangelical Presbyterian.  By my mid teens I was already asking "So wait...Ghandi went to hell?  Ghandi?"  It didn't bode well for my future church attendance.   

[Crow]

ETA:  Oh yeah.  I was going to answer the original question.  I was raised Evangelical Presbyterian.  By my mid teens I was already asking "So wait...Ghandi went to hell?  Ghandi?"  It didn't bode well for my future church attendance.   

Ghandi was a dick.

[Happy_Is_Good]

I was raised Roman Catholic.  After I read the Bible and started to reject Christianity...there was the slightest shift to Evangelical Christianity as a result of the Gospels (i.e., Mathew, Mark Luke and John) -  which I later figured were nor more authoritive than the Gospels of John, Paul, George, and Richard (i.e., Ringo).

[Ali]

ETA:  Oh yeah.  I was going to answer the original question.  I was raised Evangelical Presbyterian.  By my mid teens I was already asking "So wait...Ghandi went to hell?  Ghandi?"  It didn't bode well for my future church attendance.   

Ghandi was a dick.

Gandhi?  I mean, I'll admit, I don't know a ton about him other than the whole passive resistance, and "fighting (not really, since he was a pacifist) to get the British out of India and equality between the castes and stuff.  I didn't know him personally or anything, but he seemed like a nice enough guy.

[Happy_Is_Good]

ETA:  Oh yeah.  I was going to answer the original question.  I was raised Evangelical Presbyterian.  By my mid teens I was already asking "So wait...Ghandi went to hell?  Ghandi?"  It didn't bode well for my future church attendance.   

Ghandi was a dick.

Ghandi was many things...but I would argue that he was not a "Dick".

Ghandi had to play the role of his time, and he did it well, and I appreciate him for doing this.  Seriously, I can't figure out how Gandhi was religious in action - and I respect him for this fact.

[Asmodean]

Gandhi?  I mean, I'll admit, I don't know a ton about him other than the whole passive resistance, and "fighting (not really, since he was a pacifist) to get the British out of India and equality between the castes and stuff.  I didn't know him personally or anything, but he seemed like a nice enough guy.

Try Holier than Thou episode of P&T Bullshit... A Nice start on Gandhi research. 

[ThinkAnarchy]

I was forced to attend Catholic church twice a week as a child, once a week at school and than on Sunday's with the family. When I was a sophomore in high school I was dating an atheist girl for about two months, and embarrassingly, I tried to convert her a few times. Obviously that relationship was doomed to fail. I was a douchbag Catholic trying to make here think like me and she refused to put out; come to think of it, it's shocking it lasted two months.

[Will37]

Nine years of Catholic School.  Almost became a monk.  Became very interested in Islam during the translation from staunch Catholicism to atheism.  Didn't last past my teens.  Of course, as I'm in my early 20's I have been religious for the vast majority of my life.

[Crocoduck]

Up until I was six or seven we were Church of God (Holiness). A very anal, legalistic church. The women never wore jewelry, including wedding rings because of 1 Peter 3:3 (Your adornment must not be merely external-- braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses;)
My mother was the high school Sunday school teacher and my father was the treasurer until they took the high school kids on a snow retreat and a couple of the girls wore pants! This was quite the scandal, something akin to cross dressing and my parents were stripped of their jobs.
 
We left and joined the Church of the Nazarene. My mother showed how worldly she was by making my dad buy her a wedding ring. Proving that the Church of God was right about her all along. 

I attended private Christian schools most years. So on top of the three or four times a week we attended church. (Twice on Sunday, Bible study on Wednesday and sometimes choir practice on Saturday night.) I also had Chapel and bible study at school.

My Sister and I tried a few other churches when I was old enough to drive, mostly Calvary Chapels but that really made my mother worry.

[Thunder Road]

Was raised Roman Catholic and attended 12 years of Catholic school.  I even wanted to be a priest for while around 3rd-5th grade or so.

[Tristan Jay]

Try Holier than Thou episode of P&T Bullshit... A Nice start on Gandhi research. 

Oh, I love Pen and Teller, they're hilarious!

"...To make it easier for God, we're wearing lightning rods on our heads!  Come on, God, we're ready for you!  Any time, any place!"  And the silent one doing his dance of sheer mockery and ridicule in the background.   

My parents don't take religion to seriously.  They took my brother and I to a Baptist church, and a Congregational church.  Then we stopped going, none of us were really too fussed.  I went to a friend's non-denominational church (which emerged from Baptist leanings) when I took Christianity more seriously for a while.  Eventually, though, I stopped going because of work schedules.  I never followed up and went back, and eventually, given thought and consideration of organized religion, I didn't particularly want to.

[Firebird]

Like Heisenberg, I grew up reform Jewish and got bar mitzvahed, but the belief was never really there. Funny thing was, none of my family ever really believed either, but they thought it was important to keep up with the traditions. I get that part to some extent, but religion was never a serious part of our lives, and all of my friends and girlfriends tended to not be Jewish for whatever reason. By the time I got to college, I had stopped going even during holidays. Haven't been to synagogue except for weddings and funerals in over 10 years.