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Is your mother more religious than your father? (pg. 2)
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| Omega_Blue |
| my mom is hardcore religious. my dad pretends to be but it's pretty obvious that he goes to church just to agree with mom. he's also an "elder" or whatever at the church now, and works the sound system, so i think he feels a sense of comradery/importance in the church (which therefore encourages him to further his "beliefs") |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_Blue
my mom is hardcore religious. my dad pretends to be but it's pretty obvious that he goes to church just to agree with mom. he's also an "elder" or whatever at the church now, and works the sound system, so i think he feels a sense of comradery/importance in the church (which therefore encourages him to further his "beliefs") |
Were they born in the US?
My girl's family converted to Christianity as soon as they arrived in Brazil, though no one was really religious except for her and her sister. Still, everyone in the family was baptised. However, I recently learnt Christianity is quite widespread in South Korea...
| quote: | Originally posted by Moongoose
If my parents do believe in god they sure dont show it...the only reason they every did go to church (and even then only during the holidays) was to keep the grandparents frm complaining who were quite religious. And while ill maintain that neither is actually religious my mother is quick to point out that shes a different denomination of christian than my father, but im willing to bet thats just so that we can celebrate chritmas and new years twice. |
Orthodox and Catholic? |
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| Mattinsanity |
my mom is hardcore religious and I'm thankful for that. she reminds me of proverbs 31 from the bible:
An excellent wife, who can find?
For her worth is far above jewels.
rare, precious
The heart of her husband trusts in her,
And he will have no lack of gain.
trustworthy
She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life. |
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| Monocle |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fledz
My mum is a devout Catholic (though not crazy devout of course).
Dad practices Catholicism but doesn't really believe in it. More of an agnostic/atheist.
I practice Catholicism (sometimes) but am definitely an agnostic. |
I find this to be a bit weird.... you practice catholicism sometimes? wtf does that mean lol?? and on top of that, you're agnostic?? wut |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
It is a fairly well-established sociological finding that women tend to be more religious than men, at least in the Westernized countries where this has been studied most extensively. Even when they do depart from statistically "normal" religious beliefs, it seems like they almost always describe themselves as agnostic rather than atheist. The "mild" option.
I suspect, though I have no data on this, that women are less likely in general to hold beliefs that fall far outside the norm, not just in the case of religion. Confiscate-all-private-property socialism, fascist-like conservatism, anarchistic libertarianism, transhumanism, conspiracy theory ideas: just pick one at random out of the big batch of ideas and positions that most people consider "wacky" or unusual, and I bet you more men will hold it. But that is just going off of personal experience, so I might be wrong. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
It is a fairly well-established sociological finding that women tend to be more religious than men, at least in the Westernized countries where this has been studied most extensively. Even when they do depart from statistically "normal" religious beliefs, it seems like they almost always describe themselves as agnostic rather than atheist. The "mild" option. |
Do you have any browsable data on this?
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I suspect, though I have no data on this, that women are less likely in general to hold beliefs that fall far outside the norm, not just in the case of religion. Confiscate-all-private-property socialism, fascist-like conservatism, anarchistic libertarianism, transhumanism, conspiracy theory ideas: just pick one at random out of the big batch of ideas and positions that most people consider "wacky" or unusual, and I bet you more men will hold it. But that is just going off of personal experience, so I might be wrong. |
Well, women do tend to be more conservative when it comes to language, and I remember reading about that in many different contexts... even when Plato tried to take a jab at sociolinguistics, unbeknownst to him, women were more conservative.
All in all, what you said makes a lot of sense... I wish I could have some data on this though. |
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| Acton |
I voted for my Mother, because she is slightly more religious than my Father. But as for why, well, I'm far too drunk to try and explain that. Maybe I'll try when I'm sober, in a couple of days or so.
Merry Christmas. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Do you have any browsable data on this? |
No, just a lot of pop science stuff making references to articles I can no longer access, since I am no longer in school. Sorry. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
No, just a lot of pop science stuff making references to articles I can no longer access, since I am no longer in school. Sorry. |
'tis all right :)
I'm usually wary of pop science books, however, because they usually get an awful lot of stuff wrong about language, such as the whole "women speak more than men", which is still very much debatable. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| I have looked at actual GSS tables, so I know that the generalization about religiosity holds for American women and men, at least. Other than that, I have not studied the topic in a lot of depth and am admittedly going on informal impressions. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I have looked at actual GSS tables, so I know that the generalization about religiosity holds for American women and men, at least. Other than that, I have not studied the topic a whole lot and am admittedly going on informal impressions. |
Hey, I think I do have access to the statistics provided by the Brazilian government. I'm not sure it is of any use, given how Brazilians in general are very religious, but I'ma take a look at it :) |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| They're both equally atheist, but my mother does believe in a lot of new age crap and puts faith in astrology and premonitions. So while she's definitely more "spiritual" she's also more inclined to subscribe to off-centre beliefs, to contradict JBJ. |
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