Do you mostly hold the same religious beliefs as your parents?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I'm a bit more liberal in my theology than they were, but it is isn't a vast difference.  Dad was raised a Congregationalist and Mom a Methodist.  There was religious material beyond simply the Bible available in the house and as a kid, we always went to church on Sunday, rain or shine.  Yet they didn't browbeat us with religion all the time, and saying grace at meal times was not a typical thing, tho we almost always ate together as a family.  Incidentally, I have a cousin out in Oklahoma who is quite the evangelical Methodist.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Basically, because I turned my mom from a Christian to an agnostic and my dad from an agnostic to an atheist. 

Are you saying that you're so awful that they can't imagine that if God exists, he would give them a child like you?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Basically, because I turned my mom from a Christian to an agnostic and my dad from an agnostic to an atheist. 

Are you saying that you're so awful that they can't imagine that if God exists, he would give them a child like you?

Nice burn.  Well done.  I'll take in stride. 

Just in jest.  It was too good a straight line you provided to not use.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Mom and Dad are Catholics, as am I. We go to church though only Easter and Christmas; and else don't bother much what the church does and says...

Ah yes, the C&E's.  Taken collectively out of all the churches they nominally belong to, I suspect the C&E's would be the largest denomination in America.  Yet the C&E's and the regulars need each other.  Without the regulars, the C&E's would probably be unable to organize enough to build churches of their own to celebrate Christmas, Easter, baptisms, weddings, and funerals. Without the C&E's, the regulars would have to dig deeper into their own pockets to fund their church, tho they wouldn't need facilities quite as large so the financial strain wouldn't be quite as bad as it first appears.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

No for me.

My background is extremely mixed.  My dad is a life-long Hindu (originally from India), while my mom was raised Lutheran here in the Upper Midwest.  She is now very flexible religiously, and her beliefs combine aspects from many traditions.  She likes Unitarianism, and holds some beliefs from the eastern religions.

I was never really raised to belong to a certain tradition, but my personal beliefs fit in most with liberal Protestantism.  The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seems to be a good fit for me, and I plan to join after getting certain church positions clarified to me by a pastor.

My mom would be fine with that.  While she no longer holds the traditional beliefs, she doesn't have a problem with liberal Christianity, and certainly not with the Lutheran denomination she was raised in.  My maternal grandmother did want me to get baptized, so I was baptized at the Episcopal church in my neighborhood during my young childhood.  I was never confirmed though, and I've hardly ever been to church.  Being Episcopalian would certainly be a possibility if it turns out that the Lutherans are just too conservative to me, but at least some ELCA congregations seem to be what I'm looking for.

Let me know if I can help.  While not a member, two of the churches I regularly attend are ELCA congregations, so I have some familiarity with their doctrine.  Indeed, I suspect that were it not for my Universalist impulses and my indifference on the doctrine of the Trinity, I could have easily ended up joining an ELCA church.  (Or if I had been unable to find a UU church that was comfortable with my Christianity, I might well have done decided to be a regular attendee even if I were not a member.)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I'm now happily attending an Episcopal church, which also has some stark regional divides...

Really?