Has your religious or cultural upbringing affect the rest of your life ?

My mother was a devout Catholic my father Church of Scotland. No ifs or buts, I went to church with my mother when at home and not at Catholic boarding school. She was shocked at 17 I was not going to church. She could hardly drag me there and I have rarely been in any church since, only weddings and funerals. I did not get married in a church as I did not want to be a hypocrite.

My mother was a devout Catholic - daily Mass at 6.30 a.m. I don’t remember her ever asking us to join her. But I think Sunday Mass was obligatory. We never complained. I also went to a Catholic Convent School. I was not indoctrinated but was taught right from wrong and given a moral compass, to guide me through life. For that I am grateful.

Y family was religious and I went to a convent school,I left religion behind when I was about 15 WhenI got married my FIL insisted we get married in a church of Scotland theoldyou take his name you have to take his religion attitude My parents said as long as it’s a man of god marries you that’s fine so I brought my kids up in that faith ,have several friends who were ministers even a couple who were Moderator of the church of Scotland but they knew and respected my lack of faith.
My politics emanated from my gran who was one of the first woman members of the Labour Party when they were left wing socialists I have been a member of the SNP since my early teens and I believe they are the most left leaning party in the UK.I'm not a Christian but a humanist. And I see those values which to me are the same in my party of choice .

It’s simply indoctrination and happens in a lot of religions..