I was raised Roman Catholic and practiced for all of my youth into my late teens, but after that I just went on living without then need to go to church every Sunday. When I started studying martial arts I was introduced to Buddhism which I related to much more than Catholicism. After all I was an adult at the ripe age of 21 years old I was struggling to go my own way, but my parents kept pulling into their way. I never tried to educate them on Buddhism I knew they would never try it, but I didn’t get the same respect, there was a lot of negative, hurtful comments that only divided us and it remained that way nearly their entire lives. Ironically after all the BS after my dad passed I met a woman from Thailand who is a practitioner of Buddhism and my mother loved her. We got married and are both active in Buddhism.