What is your religion?

[MoiOBRA]

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And does this affect your content creation?

[frgmnt]

I was baptized as a baby - it's a default thing to do in my very Catholic country, and those who don't baptize their children are looked down upon. So... I don't think having been baptized automatically makes you a Christian.
I'm an atheist and have been since I was a teenager, so I believe... "unaffiliated"?
I generally respect people's religions and all, if faith enhaces someone's life, good for them - I just personally want none of that.

However, I do like some elements of Christian, or more like, pseudo-Christian folklore and I'm going use them for edgy points in one of my future works (says the person who named two of their main characters in a comic Eve and Lilith, which has been a complete coincidence and is not intended to mean anything)

[Prometheus]

Yes, it does. I'm a Christian (specifically a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), and I believe in families living together forever, even after death. Because of this, I've noticed that a lot of my works focus on families, and others focus on forgiveness of oneself or others. Most of the time the themes of my works are both mashed together. But yeah, it influences my work a lot!

[ninjashira]

Firmly agnostic! Which wasn't on the list, so I'm just chiming in.

My parents dragged me through a whole mess of religions growing up - baptist, Mormon, Wiccan, cowboy Christian, non-Denominational Christian, whatever whatever. If you ask me, either they're all true, or they're all wrong, but either way, I'm not involved in any of it anymore.

[darthmongoose]

Erggghhhh.... It's complicated.

I was baptised catholic to appease my very religious grandparents, and raised in a relaxed church of England protestant family. I was confirmed as CofE when I was eleven (by my own choice, my family didn't push me into it) and was even a church choirgirl until I was about eighteen and went to Uni.
BUT when I was a choirgirl, my church got in this really homophobic guest vicar to do this sermon about how awful gay people are, how they destroy families even if they think they're being harmless etc. and I was just sat there in the choir pews a few feet away with this vague early inkling I might be gay thinking "if I'm gay, I'm not welcome here, this is what they think of gay people..."
So when I went off to Uni I just... never went back to church, especially since over time, I became more and more sure that I was definitely very gay. Then when the UK legalised same-sex marriage, the Church of England was so against it that they weren't happy with the law that allowed them to opt out of marrying same-sex couples, but insisted it be included in the law that it be illegal for any same-sex couple to be married in a church.

I still feel that there is a fair bit of wisdom in the scripture, when interpreted with a bit of thought and understanding, even if you just sort of use it as metaphors or guidelines and sort of consider myself a Christian on some level, but I don't really feel like I can belong to the Church as an organisation.

[LCT_m_a_d]

The root of my faith comes from a couple of Christian passages.
Most of my spiritual practices are eclectic which is probably my art-work doesn't really have any religious themes since beyond therapeutic.

[Grhe]

Shinto is not a religion...

[vothnthorvaldson]

I put unaffiliated but a more correct answer would be 'utter lack of spiritual life'. I had great difficulties when I was young to understand why people believed, what was pushing them toward religion, because it is a feeling I not only don't feel, but have difficulties to even understand.
However I've always found religions interesting and don't reject them except when they try to restrict my freedom etc. I'm just a very external observer.

[cherrystark]

I am a Christian. I am very grateful for my faith. It drives me to be a better person and gives me comfort to know that there is more to life than just what we see around us. My beliefs are similar to @Prometheus

[snowy]

Since there is nothing that a religious perspective can add, be it good or bad, that can't come from a non-religious perspective as well, I've always found questions like this relevant to absolutely nothing.

[Iris-Grimoire]

I guess christian? It's a bit derived from catholicism, but not really that, and not even the full definition of the subcategory I tell people to avoid a long explanation. I'm a very "individual prayer and beliefs" kind of person so just the notion of going to church or the specific prayer spaces where old ladies soapbox hot takes while we wait makes me anxious, as well as some passages in said subcategory where I'm like "hm, don't like that, stop with the victim blaming", but I still believe some of the larger afterlife stuff.

Yeah christian let's go with that.

[BlairFujin]

Raised catholic, I still like this cool Jesus guy who basically told everyone not to be a jerk to each other but... there is no space for him in catholic church (especially here, in Poland) with all the hatred it fosters
As for how it affects my content... I try to avoid religious subjects in it and only use some aesthetic elements

[DiegoPalacios]

Raised catholic, I still like this cool Jesus guy who basically told everyone not to be a jerk to each other but...

The people Jesus criticized the most were the ones that used religion as an excuse to act high and mighty....is sad and ironic that some people keep missing the point.....

[therosesword]

I'm an atheist and no, it does not affect my writing.

I've written a lot of characters who take their faiths seriously and walk the walk and I've written people who use it to further themselves.

Faith is a huge part of a person's make up and something I respect, even if I don't share the belief. I have a friend who is an Episcopalian priest and always teases me that when I show up on a Sunday that he hopes the church will weather the lightening strike. He's a good man and a gives good sermons that transcend religion so I do like to drop in once in a while.

[irresponsiblepics]

I'm pagan and will sacrifice anyone who produces a failed harvest to my sun god!

[allenT]

I'm not in any organized religions. But i do have beliefs. I'm pretty stable with what i've learned right now. But if i found it no longer serves me or being relevant for my current Self i'll just forget about it.

I like Taoism, brain-heart coherence, breathing/meditations, certain types of new age, interested on channelings, numerology, astrology etc. Likes to listen to some teachers i trusted. I don't hold on those knowledge too tightly, just be calm and light to myself.

Yes, my beliefs does influences part of my worldbuilding, i think they'll enrich the story. As creator i look into some Eastern religions/sects/cults/movements for ideas, even those i don't practice or agree on.

[LostSpirit]

Hinduism. But my parents never really stressed me out about it, neither did my grandparents. I won't get into the specifics of my personal opinions or beliefs on the matter, the good and bad, you see. But I do think it's influenced my writing, or rather, it's inspired me every now and then. There's a rich mythology associated with Hinduism, including some very famous epics in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. It's helped me develop an interest in other mythologies as well.

These things, experiences form a writer in my opinion. I'm just that, I suppose.

[ratscout]

Christian. Never pressured by my parents to be one, I just genuinely love the religion (my mom's a Christian, dad's kinda agnostic). To be honest, it does affect my writing at times--I don't really use it to push my beliefs, but I do like to make some of my characters Christians, and I do like to make it shape their worldview.

[thel3tterm]

Like many others here, it's.... Complicated.
The answer I give most people is that I'm an atheist, and that I was raised Catholic. That's true for the most part, but it's difficult to encapsulate beliefs and experiences that simply.

So, here is a list of thoughts and ideas that might outline the (extremely hazy and erratic) shape of my experiences and beliefs:
-Being 16 at midnight mass on Christmas eve. The chapel is decorated beautifully and my younger brother is playing bells. He was ecstatic and practiced for weeks leading up to it, occasionally miming the gestures and humming to himself when he thought no one was looking. There's a point in the service where we're given silence to pray for concerns in our hearts. My mother had been hounding me for weeks asking if I was gay. I kept saying no, but the doubt was there in some form. I sat there praying to be made 'normal' or at least given some kind of a sign that I could be.

-A boy is denied confirmation for posting a pro-LGBT message on Facebook. The woman who made the decision didn't know her own son was gay.

-I was a lector. Often times while reading I had moments of "do I actually believe this?" I quit being a lector when I realized that I didn't, and didn't feel right standing in front of the entire congregation.

Some other thoughts:
-I think that there is a beauty to religion. I do get nostalgic for my upbringing. Sometimes I miss the sense of community, and the architecture, and the sounds and smells.

-I think that for many people, a church and a shared belief can be a wonderful thing.

-I think that personal beliefs are shaped by our experiences, and that mine eventually led me to having substantial doubt in the existence of god. For many of my friends, it solidified their idea in a god or gods, and I'm glad that their faith makes their life more meaningful and whole because of it.

-I think that belief and upbringing are inherently tied to our view of the world, and it's impossible to fully separate that from the work we create. That doesn't mean someone is pushing an agenda, but certain moral decisions, outcomes, and things depicted will be shaped by our moral and spiritual view of the world.

So, of course my belief has an impact on my work.

[simonitropunk]

I'm a proud Christian, I'm a proud metalhead.... therefore, I'm a proud Christian Metalhead

That's why I'm happy!!