How far does the apple fall from the tree?

I'm curious as to how different our religious views are compared to those of our parents and grandparents.

Please share as much as you're willing, and give everyone a picture of the religious background you come from - and from this we can see how far the apple falls from the tree.

I'll start with my grandparents. I never knew my paternal grandparents, they died long before I was born, when my father was young. My father never really talked about them, I think it was difficult for him.

My maternal grandparents were both very religious, especially my grandmother. My grandfather died in the 1950s but in his photos he wears a fez and my grandmother says he was very devout. My grandmother is a woman of her era, bigoted and crass. She doesn't really have much nice to say about you unless you're a Bosnian Muslim, from a respectable family, born and raised within a few blocks of her doorstep. All of this is cultural, though, not religious.

Nena has only ever gone to one mosque in her life. When she is in Kozarac, she'll go five times a day. If she's somewhere else, she won't go at all. She wears a veil most of the time, but so do all women her age in Bosnia - regardless of their particular faith. She reads the Koran a lot.

My mother was mixed, really. She was religious in some regards but overall I would say she was a socialist. She wore a veil when she and my father first married but soon dropped the habit. I remember many mornings my father would wake me up for prayers but my mother would stay in bed. I think she considered, or wanted to consider, herself better than the villagers she came from and she associated devoutness with rural Bosnia and a more primitive way of life.

My father was extremely devout, he even kept a beard - which is weird in Bosnia even today. He didn't go to mosque five times a day, but he prayed five times a day - as I do. He recited the Koran a lot, talked to Imams before making any major decisions in his life, and these sorts of things.

That's about it I suppose.

My parents were both members of the spiritualist church my father was president of his branch they were both mediums and healers.
i seem to have fallen a very long way from their particular tree

Well, my Mother's parents were both Christian. My Grandfather not so much me thinks, but my Grandmother was. My mother/stepfather Christian as well. Methodist on all if that is needed. My father's parents are hard-core Christian.... I'd liken to Baptist (as their background was), but proclaimed Methodists as well. My father is not so much a Christian, though he went to seminary (Methodist) and is now a "Catholic" due to his new wife. Ha ha ha, makes me laugh... in a good way.

If I am an apple, well then I came from a sycamore tree or something........

Well, my WHOLE family both sides are Catholic..If I can recall, every single one of them are. My mother (single parent) put me through a Catholic school and attended church every sunday religously! I was a devout Catholic, went through the traditional processes like Baptisim, Communion, Reconciliation(we had to go through this, like a way to learn how to confess our sins to the priest which I hated and never understood why.) Then as time went on, I started to question my faith although, I remember being very confused as a child learing about the bible in Religion class...of course hell confused me etc. When I do go to church, believe it or not, it is a Catholic one(I can conduct a whole mass, I know it off by heart, I'm kinda bored with it I think) but I'm considering a UU church. I feel like it doesn't matter where you worship, or which denomination or religious Church you go to, God is God no matter what. So, I think that's it.

Well as far as my family goes my nanny(don't know about her mother), on my mom's side is a die-hard Catholic(she literally goes to church everyday), my mom and aunt are also Catholics though not as strict. My dad is a non-practising Baptist.His sister mean while is a very devout Baptist. My great-grandmother and great aunt on my dad's side are both Jehovah's Witnesses.
As for me my mom baptized me into the Catholic church and I went to Catholic school from kindergarten all the way to 12th grade. I went through Baptisim(obviously),my first Communion,and Conformation. I try to be a devout,active (though not scrict) Catholic but also keep a strong interest to learn/experience other religions.

My whole family is muslim, from grandparents, to great grandparents, aswell as all aunts, uncles and cousins. My grandpa helped build the Mosque we have here in London, Ontario and one day I hope to have enough money to build a new and improved mosque here in London (Inshu'Allah), not that the one my grandpa helped build isn't beautiful, because it is, but the muslim community here in London has gotten sooooo much bigger, it would be nice to have a much larger mosque.

My dad is very educated with Islam and did his best to teach me and my two older brothers everything he could, but him talking to us about it and teaching us about the Quran isn't what made us muslims, it was him living like a Muslim and letting us see him and my mother live together so well, as a team, with rarely any conflict and with all the love for the three of us which showed me and my brothers what Islam was all about. We used to see them pray together (which they never forced us to do with them) and during the month of Ramadan we would all pray together before dinner (which is something we should do all the time, but unfortunately we don't) and that is something I would like to carry on with my family. We are close with both sides of the family, first, second and third cousins are like brothers and sisters. I saw true examples of a muslim man and a muslim women through my father and mother, and they performed their duty in Islam as parents perfectly.

So with all that said, I hope the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. I'd like to carry on the same kind of lifestyle which is the Islamic way of life. I'm gonna teach my children about Islam and i'm gonna live a muslim life in my home (inshu'Allah). If when my son or daughter is at an age when what they do is completely up to them and decide not to practice Islam, I will talk with them about it but I will accpet their decision.... but I honestly hope I can keep the ball rolling, and I hope the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree with my kids either.

My father is a hardlined Southern Baptist and my mom goes to church with him, but she strikes me as more along the lines of Nazerine. My brother is a diest. My sister goes to Baptist church sometimes, but i think she is starting to question things.
As you can see, I am an Athiest. Well, more along the lines of Agnostic, I don't claim there is no possibility of a god, but since I don't actually believe in a god, I claim athiesm.
I am the orange that fell from the apple tree.

I was raised in a Roman Catholic family. I can’t speak for what my grandparents think regarding to religion. All I know is they’re Roman Catholic and that my one grandfather is a member of the Knights of Columbus.

I can say a little more about my parents. I would say my father has a moderate view of scripture. I know that my father disagrees with people interpreting scripture literally and using it as a historical document. But, I know that he follows many traditional views in the religion. I know much less of the views of my mother; it doesn’t really come up much. What I can sense from what little has come up is that she has a more orthodox view, but in no way being at the point of a fundamentalist.

For a decent while I was happy within my Roman Catholic religion. I really started questioning my religion when I saw that many adherents to my religions disagreed with my views in debates. I didn’t change my religion because of this, but it did cause me to really examine my own beliefs. At first I just developed a fairly liberal view for myself on the Christian religion. I continued to drift away from the religion in general though and just didn’t see it fitting with me anymore. I shifted to calling myself an agnostic for a good while, but I fell out of that a year or two ago. I drifted between general Paganism and Buddhism. Now I find myself generally identifying myself as a Pagan, though I have not found a particular faith in that category that I think fits me.

Mom was of the opinion that religion was too important a matter for children to decide, so she raised myself and my brothers with the words that we were to grow up first, and reach the age of reason, before we came to any conclusions about religion. Since the age of reason for an American is somewhat later than the age of reason for people of other countries, I dutifully did not reach any conclusions about religion until I was 40.

She herself is a Christian. I'm a non theist.

my mother's side of the family are fairly devout catholics. my grandparents went to mass each sunday when they could get around, and over the summer i brought them to mass myself.

my father's side of the family is protestant to varying degrees of practice. my father was a religious man and enjoyed going to church and taking his children. he was a devout christian but also studied buddhism and catholic mysticism independent of going to church. he was a cool guy.

i still go to church when i come home from school. i don't always want to go, but it makes my family happy and i often enjoy the sermon. i do not consider myself christian, but i do read alot of chirstian writing and admire the faith of historical christian social protestors (mother teresa, desmond tutu, bonhoeffer). i also read a good deal of buddhist writing and follow the precepts and eightfold path as best i can (but hopefully better that that at the same time).