Traditional Family Faith

[Frodo]

On my father's side, our family has traditionally been Lutheran or Episcopalian.  My mother's family -being from Japan- has always adhered to Shinto-Buddhism.  

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Being generally 'mixed New England', Catholic and Congregationalist. Episcopalian here, though.

[RI]

My family is mostly Protestant, though I don't know what, if any, specific denomination they've been. My ancestors generally originating in Protestant countries (Germany, England, Czech Republic), though there is a small French/Arcadian Catholic segment.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Various different Protestant denominations; Methodism (mostly Primitives; including several ministers), Calvinism (Presbyterian Church of Wales, aka 'Calvinistic Methodism' - the religious denomination created with the specific intent of making theology students weep bitter tears into their red wine) and - to a lesser extent - Low Church Anglicanism. Quite possibly one branch was some other form of Nonconformity (they were from the Valleys so maybe Baptists or Independents - that is Congregationalists) but I've never checked.

The unifying factors being a love for whitewash, moralising and Sabbatarianism, coupled with a dislike of incense and other such superstitious popery.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Roman Catholic. I'm the only living member of the family who is not a part of the Church, & one of only three at any point in recent memory to not be a practicing Catholic.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Mother's side - episcopalian (the one I spent my time in as a child)

Father's side - Catholic, but he was a lapsed and ended up an episcopalian too.

My mother has little time for organised religion now.

[bgwah]

Mostly (and I guess exclusively, as far as I know) the first two. Though my parents weren't religious by the time I was born.

[bullmoose88]

Options 1 and 2.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Presbyterian on my fathers side, congregationalist on my mothers, though I was baptized Lutheran and went to Methodist and evangelical churches growing up.

[patrick1]

All Catholic except my maternal Great-grandfathers' line. I think they were a mix of Baptists and Methodists. 

[ilikeverin]

Dad's side is Methodist, which goes back a ways (unfortunately, though, records of religion are for obviously reasons pretty spotty, so I can't quite be sure; I know I've found some Quakers and some Presbyterians, too).  Never very religious in modern times (my uncle on this side is fairly strongly anti-organized religion, and I'm fairly sure all my cousins on this side are agnostic/atheist/apatheist), though I have a couple great(x n)-uncles named John Wesley.

Mom's dad's side was Irish Catholic; mom's mom's side was Scots-Irish Presbyterian.  My mom's immediate family was raised Catholic, and two members of her generation are quite strongly so (another hasn't attended a regular service since she got divorced), but their kids are generally more laissez-faire about it, though still consider themselves adherents, to my knowledge.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Mom's side: Methodist/Wesleyan as far as I know
Dad's side: Baptist till dads generation Evangelical since (mostly Pentacostal)

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Judaism, for many many generations.

[tpfkaw]

All Catholic, including (I'm fairly certain) the Dutch and English parts on my mother's side.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Mom's Side - Majority Southern Baptist with some Methodist sprinkled in (especially my Grandmother's Brother's Family is all Methodist).  One of Grandpa's cousin's family is predominately Church of Christ.

Dad's side is primarily Southern Baptist.

[Hash]

Almost quasi-entirely Catholic, devoutly so in the past.

[ag]

Mostly Jewish, some Orthodox. No real Christian practice (other than painting eggs) since my Orthodox grandmother was a girl, and, at best, nationalist adherence to Judaism in the rest of the family in the same generations (no true religious belief, but some attachment to tradition). After painting Easter eggs at my grandma's, we'd have a Passover seder with matzo, gefilte fish, and farshmak, but nobody would be able to even read shma yisroel aloud from a piece of paper, and the "elders," though they knew that the youngsters were supposed to ask some questions, didn't know either the questions or the answers )) One of my grandfathers could still speak Yiddish, but he was already illiterate in that language, which he learnt while vacationing in a shtetl at the age of seven. A generation further back, though, many of them had grown up speaking Yiddish as their first language. Circumcision was abandoned in the family post-WWII for obvious self-preservation reasons.

Similar mix on my wife's side, with the distinction that her Christian grandma was, indeed, truly an Orthodox faithful, while the rest of the family had an even more vague idea of the Jewish tradition: even culinary Judaism barely survived in their ranks.  Which is surprising, considering that just one generation previously they barely knew any spoken or written Russian and were quite traditional and religious.

[RosettaStoned]

Entirely Option 1.

[milhouse24]

Where would Unitarians/New Agers belong to?

[Frodo]

Bumping for all the new members here.  

[Hatman 🍁]

United Church (mainline Protestant) on both sides. Most of my ancestors are Protestant; I haven't been able to find a single Catholic ancestor

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Father's side: Historically almost all Lutheran, though much of the extended family isn't because there's been a lot of conversion. One branch was raised Evangelical Free Church by my dad's convert brother and a lot of his kids converted as well.

Mother's side: Half Catholic, half Baptist (American Baptist I think). Amusingly both of these have almost died out, the Baptist side (my mother's cousins) have seemed to mostly abandoned it and converted around or quit practicing, while the Catholic side split fairly evenly between converted to Protestant/quit practicing/still Catholic. Only two of the grandchildren (out of 12) are Catholic (and they are the youngest ones), the rest dispersed between mainline Lutheran as raised/non-practicing "none" and myself.

...and now you can see why I don't have much of a cultural religious identity and find the premise kind of silly. There is simply no coherent religious identity to my background.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Catholic (Italian normal)

[ElectionsGuy]

Protestant. But much of my family isn't very involved anymore.

[DC Al Fine]

Almost entirely Presbyterians of one stripe or another. There's also a Dutch Reformed branch of the family.