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We are both Christian,but different denominations. I'm Catholic, teach at a Catholic school, and lo was baptized in the Catholic church. Dh attends mass with us sometimes when he is home.

@pui well said. I am Christian and am right along with you.
I am actually surprised that many Christians responded. I've thought there were a lot more atheists here.

Neither my husband or I are religious. I've been agnostic for a long time, but lean towards atheist as I get older. My husband was raised in a Catholic family, but he's never been a "believer". We obviously don't plan to raise our son to be religious, but we both have pretty strong feelings about the connectedness of living things in the universe. We don't pray before meals, but we stop and thank the animals who's lives give us sustenance and the work that went into growing/harvesting the plants. We'd like our son to grow up realizing that he is a part of a larger network of people/animals/nature and to respect that.

If he chose to explore religions, I'd likely be bummed but only because my experience with organized religion hasn't been great. I feel like most people in my life who've committed to an organized religion have rejected their loved ones who don't.

All in all, I'd hope that we could parent him like my parents did when I was in my teens and decided to go to church (I went to Christian and Morman churches). They didn't make a big fuss, but quietly let me know they really wanted me to *think* about what I was committing to and make sure it's what I really wanted/believed in. I know they weren't happy (and were quite distressed when I went to LDS church), but they told me the whole time they loved me no matter what. I hope I'll be level headed enough to do the same.

I'm not religious at all, and neither is my husband. Both of us don't agree with organized religion.

I was "raised" Catholic but I use the term loosely because really all I did was get baptized and go to Catholic school.