Religiously, my family, including myself, is Protestant, all churchgoers, except for the second oldest brother who is agnostic.

 

My father is a real sh*t. I am not.

 

So I share the values of 50% of my parents.

 

 

Politically I'm fairly far to the left and I'm spiritual but not religious. I feel like my political views were mostly shaped by the world around me but the religious ones were more home grown.

 

Also, this is an excellent topic.

Anyhow, basically we are all kind of in the center.  Not fervent believers but not atheists either.  We do go to temples every once in a while but rarely ever play religious music at home or on long rides (something that a lot of Indians do).  Quite a few of our relatives are more conservative and while we do otherwise get along splendidly with them, we are much more pro-freedom and anti-hardline-ism and haven't shied away from making our views clear on that subject.  Likewise, definitely not heavily left leaning but not rightist either.  

When I was in college, a professor dubbed me Doubting Thomas and I guess you could say my family as such is like that.  Extremely skeptical of people who park themselves in the corner with high and mighty certitude and tending to believe that the way the world is organised cannot be so easily explained.

My older sisters pretty much followed my Mom's lead.

I do not like or trust any politician.

As far as my views, opinions and priorities, I am the opposite of at least eighty per cent of the people who post regularly here. 

My father is personally liberal but politically kind of...apathetic. Every election since 2000 (earliest I can realistically remember) said he was "not sure" and went into the voting booth undecided, but has voted Democratic always. He really never talks politics, and not sure it's something he thinks about much. 

My mother is so as well, and more so politically. She's a fairly dedicated and unwavering Democrat, voted for Carter both times, and even Mondale over Reagan   though it's not blind following, she was intrigued by Perot and like Bush Sr  I don't know if she voted for Christie any time for governor of NJ but she did feel, at least at one point, he was necessary and was fed up with Democrats. Has said she's not into the idea of a $15 min wage and unions and taxing the rich. I'd say she's a fairly typical Democrat: socially liberal, economically meh moderate not really a thing. Same for Dad. 

Both are first generation born Americans, Dad's parents from Italy, Mom's from Ukraine, both sides came here poor and little to no education, the kind of typical American immigrant story of busting their asses all their life to provide their children a solid though modest life, which allowed them to springboard to a better life as adults and give my brother and I a very good middle class life, (though one that has been on the decline for 12ish years now!)

Religiously: My Father is Catholic, Mother Eastern Orthodox. My brother and I were raised Catholic and we went to church every Sunday, went to CCD, but honestly...outside those couple of hours on Sunday religion never came up at home. In a good or bad way it just, wasn't a thing in our family. When I stopped going to church they both quickly followed and I know both have made passing comments, even early in my life, about being perturbed by overly religious people especially in your face about it, so I think they are both absolutely indifferent to religion. No idea what my dad may believe, mom is the classic spiritual but not religious. 

So that resulted in my brother and I. I have always been very liberal, a believer in social democracy of the Scandinavian style more or less(though the last 3 years I've shifted from generally pro growth/market to more labor focused)and have little care for religion. Deff not into organized religion at all, God and spirituality eh I'm pretty neutral to atheist. I'd say it just isn't a part of my life in any way. 

My younger brother is a lot more hostile to religion and belief, used to be way more so to, and he is a libertarian. Was a huge fan of Ron Paul and is voting Gary Johnson this election. Though he is socially liberal and fairly independent, does like Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein as well while not fully agreeing. 

I am no doubt influenced by my parents, as well as my region which is a liberal democratic area of a liberal democratic state, as well as some key teachers in my life and probably the music I listened to We were raised to be caring, open minded, worldly but both parents worked (mom did stay at home for a good stint but went back after) and my brother and I were encouraged to work and just be good people, however that can be possibly be understood

My opinion concerning the situation in France:

French politicians are a bunch of incompetent and courage-less technocrats who mostly didn't hold a real job, made their entire career in politics, do not understand the problematics of our actual world and still apply obsolete recipes from the past century.

Another problem is that the political landscape lacks turn-over: no new young political formation can genuinely emerge (like Podemos in Spain), we roughly have the choice between the same political morons since 30 years or more. We want new fresh faces and visions!

There are never been more so much nascent micro political parties nowadays in France, all claiming they're neither left-wing nor right-wing. I personally don't know what 'socialism', 'liberalism', 'libertarism', centrism truly means... We had all this before, but they mainly applied the same non- or micro-reforms. One or another did not really change anything. Furthermore, socialism in Cuba is slightly different from our actual socialism in France for example, although they're called the same...

Yes. He even brought me along one time I was sick. They were shooting a series called 'Riget' in Copenhagen's main hospital bearing the same name (or Rigshospitalet). I remember drawing these abstract figures whilst in a fever haze and having Lars complement me on them. He also gave me some chocolate

BTW I realise I didn't mention any political stances earlier, which seems to be very important to people. My family is largely a-political, although if pressed I'd probably say we're leftist in our views. Politics don't mean sh*t to me tbh. It's the grown up version of the circus: big arm gestures and misdirection. Farts in yogurt.

 

It's interesting to see the differences of perception between countries. 

In France, centrism and conservatism are considered total antipodes, same goes for centrism and anti-EU.

French centrists are strongly pro-UE and not conservative at all.

Oh, BTW, very very very few Frenchs claim they're liberal. I remembered being shocked the first time I heard American teenagers saying they were more liberal than republican. The term "liberal" is considered as an insult in France, as it refers to evil capitalists who make poor children work at very low-cost, whereas, on the contrary, "republican" is a positive term for Frenchs: it represents unity and equality.

Be careful if you're planning a trip to Paris. Cultural differences... 

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