Why did you pick your religion of choice?

Question

Whether you are Christian, Atheist, Islamic, Wicca, whatever. Did you just pick, or did you do research, or are you just following what your parents did?

Answer 1

I researched to find the religion that would give me the structure to nurture my relationships with my deities best. To me, that is what a religion is supposed to do.

Answer 2

I researched to see that I was getting the truth, I did deep research, and found that Jehovah's Witnesses have the truth, that is why I am one now,I did not chose the religion I did research, and found out thay what I was told was true!it was not like just picking what I wanted to become, If I had done that I would have picked something easier, but I decided that I wanted truth and that's what I went after!

Answer 3

Most people don't pick their religion, they are born into it and brainwashed through their formative years (see the second or third reply). Most people accept this blindly. Picking something implies putting some thought into the choice, and there is not a religion on this world that will stand up to intelligent thought. -- that's why mist agnostics or athiests are at the far right of the intelligence curve..

Answer 4

A careful consideration of the Bible's teachings compared with the teachings of various religious groups convinced me that the ones most in harmony with Scripture are the Christian Witnesses of Jehovah.

Answer 5

I was raised Catholic. At first I practiced because I had to, then because I wanted to, now I don't attend church unless I am visiting my parents. I still consider myself a spiritual individual; I pray and praise God for the good things and ask for strength to deal with the bad things. My beliefs are based on Catholicism, but I have made them my own because there are beliefs that Catholics are expected to have that I simply do not agree with.

Answer 6

actually, i followed suit and chose the christian religion. i was not introduced to any other religions during my formative years.

that said, i have read parts of the quran, the torah and other books to see where the similarities are with the old testament.

funny thing though, i looked all through the torah and could not find where the new testament begins.... lol

-eagle

Answer 7

I'm a Buddhist. My parents taught me nothing about religion and I did not go out seeking one. I was given a book by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a gift and it all started there. I find it to be logical, and truly peaceful.

Answer 8

I have no religion. I believe in God but find the Idea of a judgmental God to be ridiculous.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 9

There was of course some influence from my parents, but it's not like they forced me at all to be Christian. It wouldn't be very Christian to force me to love God in the first place! Anyway, I also asked a lot of questions and was taught a lot about Christianity from my knowledgeable mother and then after all of this was in mind, I decided that I wanted to be a devout Christian for the love of it and such... interesting question- thanks for asking and reading my answer to it! :)

Answer 10

I wasn't raised with religion so I had to look for my self. I look into all sorts of religions and realized none of them fit my beliefs, so basically I'm in the middle of everything. I believe every religion has truth in it as well as false claims.