Converts Only: Why did you change religion?

Answer 1

I found truth that made my heart feel at peace with my spirit.

Answer 2

Because studying with Jehovah's Witnesses have given me a better understanding of why things around us happen. When I ask a question, they show me the scripture from the Bible to show their answer is not based upon their own opinion. They are united, they show love toward all men even when told that if they are not to participate in the military they will be imprisoned or killed, they refuse to take arms and hurt other people. They really are a loving family. I love the fact that regardless of where they are, whether they be in Kingdom Halls and such, they maintain an upright conduct. I have found what I am looking for in my life.

Answer 3

It was what I felt was right for me. I had been a Catholic for many years. I had tried out many Christian religions to find the right one for me. I felt alone and didn't feel like the Christian God even cared. I needed communication and needed answers. I read the bible. I went to ministers and priests. I asked other Christians. I asked the Christian God. Nothing was really answered but it was danced around a lot. Finally I was introduced to my new religion. I wasn't ready to switch over yet but Aset came and talked to me a few times. Then Heru-wer came and talked to me. I studied the religion for a while and Sekhmet came and talked to me. I found answers when I asked them. I talked to people in the religion and got more answers to my questions. I finally decided I liked this religion because I was communicated with by not only people of the religion but by the Gods themselves. I am one of those people who really need communication.

Answer 4

i was brainwashed, i mean raised as a Jehovahs Witness and you are never allowed to read anything that is not their litature. if you do you are called an apostate. There is no free thinking at all in there and when you call the Elders out through scripture, they accuse you of twisting scriptures. I had to completey disown any biblical beliefs to be the FREE person I am today and i am much happier. I have respect for everyones beliefs but jehovahs wittnesses have no respect for anyone eles.

Answer 5

I grew disenchanted with Christianity. As I child I believed because I was taught to believe, but as a grew to think for myself things didn't add up. For one, I couldn't understand how one religion could be entirely right and everyone else in the entire world for all of history had been wrong. That sounds like a god with not a lot of forethought, which totally contradicts everything I was taught about him.

When I tried asking questions, I was generally called disruptive in Sunday school. I don't hold that against Christianity, but it is one of the reasons I didn't stay! I don't believe in blind faith.

I also didn't feel the presense of God. Ever. I don't doubt that other Christians do, but I did not. Clearly, he was not my god.

After leaving Christianity, I spent many years trying to figure out what I was. I looked at several major faiths, and none of them "appealed" to me. I use quotation marks because I do not mean "none of them looked cool" but instead something more like "none of them rang true. Nothing in them jumped out at me." Even when I did find my eventually faith, I studied four or five years before I formally dedicated myself to Wicca. That was how long I needed to be confident that I actually believed in what it taught and that I was in communication with deity through this faith.

Answer 6

I used to be a fairly devout Protestant Christian. I led Bible studies, spoke in church, sang in choirs, and even released a Christian rock CD and performed around the city selling it.

Now I am agnostic, and extremely opinionated on this topic! I was a philosophy major in college during my transition and have been in countless debates (in-class, online, face to face, etc.) about religion. Usually it was me debating a Christian. After a while it became clear to me that people aren't going to change (or lose, or add) religions simply from hearing another person's arguments! That may help (it did for me), but the actual *changing* takes place only when an individual decides for him or herself that it's okay to make this transition in their lives. That was the hardest part for me. I knew my beliefs had been shifting. But it was only when I forgave myself for those shifts that I was actually able to change.

So, in one sentence, because I finally forgave myself for disgreeing with my fellow Christians.

Answer 7

I didnt really change religion, it was more of the type of church it was. First it was Catholic, my mom made us change to an Assembly of God church, then as I got older, my cousin died and my auntie was having a hard time so I started spending a lot of time with her and started going to her church. Then after a while the pastor there left and I did not agree with the new pastor and his teaching so I went back to my Assembly of God church, and have not felt the need to go elsewhere.

Answer 8

I was raised by the Nation of Islam ( my mother couln't keep us all in one place), but born Catholic. I was drawn to Islam, but couldn't get ready for N.O.I.'s racial stance.

Upon coming home, I started back to Church , became an altar boy, and was SERIOUSLY considering a life as a Fransiscan Monk!

Then, I began going to a protestant church, where I began to see the hypocrisy Jesus (S.A.W.) talking about: the "floor show",

15 churches on the same block, all chasin' the same nickel from the same poor folk who couldn't even afford to give it in the 1st place,

the preacher who's "gettin paid" offa Jesus, the molestations, the jealousy and greed, not to mention the hierachy (I've got more than you, so I sit up front).

Yet & still I eventually became an evangelist, but when I began to bring in the bums & ho's, The church put an abrupt stop to that.

In 1990, my mom took sick with lymphoma, so I looked for herbs for her at a shop. I ran into a Muslim who was more than helpful. He accepted a ride from me with his kid in tow. I asked him was he concerned in that he didn't know me, and he told me "Ma' sha'allah" (Allah has deemed it so).

I remembered the comfort of praying directly to God without man's interference. It was so peaceful.

1 month before my mom died, I made my declaration. No one from any of the churches she attended gave any support, except one of the Senior female members who"saw" to my father while my mom was sick. (She's now his wife. How Christian...)

When you go to Friday prayer, you truly understand that Allah(S.W.T. ) is no respector of person. You will see a homeles person next to a banker. A plumber next to a doctor. But when the call to prayer is heard, ALL bow down equally before Allah.

That is why I changed my religion...

ALLAHU AKBAR!!!ALLAHU AKBAR!!!ALLAHU AKBAR!!!

Answer 9

I refused to be intimidated and pressured into believing in a skydaddy which has no evidence of it's existence

Also, I know that i'm a good person. So, I have nothing to fear if i'm wrong which I doubt.

If God is real(which he's not) he must be evil himself for letting good people that just happen to think, go to hell.

Answer 10

I lost religion as I became educated and chose to think for myself.