you and your family's values

my father: pretty conservative, very Catholic in beliefs
my mother: more moderate but still on the right, seems to be Catholic but not as devout as my father
my siblings: I have one sister who is more left than the rest, but the others are more middling in political/religious beliefs
me: politically a libertarian socialist, so just about as left as you could be, religiously: agnostic atheist, as far as existential beliefs go I would consider myself an absurdist a la Camus.

I don't talk about my political/philosophical/religious/etc with my family at all.

My mother was a life-long socialist and atheist. So am I.

Edited by emigre80 - June 19 2016 at 21:28

My family was never too religious. Never the type to go to church on Sunday, even though Ecuador, where I grew up, is like 90% or more Catholic. Nowadays after we all have moved somewhere, my sister in Switzerland is Christian but not affiliated to any specific church. Same with mother here in the US though not overtly so. My dad here doesn't really care much though he believes in a god. I'm the only full atheist here.

Politically, they all are around the center. I'm the only that's fully in the left

I find that I don't share the same political or religious values of any of my immediate family.
My mother and sister are to my left.  My sister is not religious.  My mother is "new-age religious".

While I am more left than right politically, its only nominally.  I am "a-religious".

The rest of my family, father, brother, step-mother and her children who I grew up with from (my) ages 7 - 19, are all quite a bit to the right, and relatively religious.  One step brother, who is less than one month younger than me, and with whom I shared a bedroom from age 7-17, I would term as fairly far-right in that he has guns and, shall we say, is not a fan of the government.

I also have a half-brother (mother's side) who as far as I can tell has not a political or religious thought in his head.  Of course he could just be hiding it. 

What is strange to me is that, even though we (father, step-mother and that combined family) attended (Catholic) church every week, other than my step-mother (700 Club watcher...) I never really noticed any particular outward religious inclination in anyone else in the family.  But now most are, to varying degrees (not sure about my younger step-brother, to he honest), fairly religious.  Most have families and children of their own.  Only myself (unmarried), my married sister and unmarried half-brother have no children.  The ones that do have children are the more religious and right-leaning.  Is that a coincidence?  I don't know.

My same-age step-brother perplexes me the most.  Growing up he was the, shall we say, least-conforming of the kids.  Did poorly in school, "partied" (alcohol invovled, at least, but I don't think he ever "did drugs"), not remotely religious.  But now he is a gun-owner and has a lot to say about any government involvement in his life.  Not honestly sure where he stands on religion.  I really have only seen him a few times in the last 15-20 years, and while I respect him as a person (he's smart, if not "schooled", and owns his own business), I really can't stand to listen to him "discuss" (rant and rave?) politics, which he tends to love to do.  So I avoid him in general, and feel a bit guilty about doing so...

Anyway, enough rambling.  But if others would like to share on this topic I think it could be interesting.