Any of u ever changed ur religion?

Question

If so what is the religion? why did u convert? I m just asking, no special interest for me to convert though. I m a devoted muslim who has found peace in his religion. No offensive remarks, please. I respect all religions and I m no supporter of terrorism. Peace upon all.

Answer 1

I did not change my religion....my religion changed me. I am a Christian, and, like you, I respect others choice to believe in their faith in God. It makes no sense to me to "fight" over religion. It accomplishes nothing good. I was brought up in my culture, as you were in your culture, and we are all the product of our environment. Do I ever question my religion? Of course, I do, and then I search for answers. God gave us the intelligence to question everything, and the ability to find the answers, but above all, God, the creator, created us to love Him and love each other and our differences, and to respect each other's individuality. I just do not understand why men feel the need to fight over the differences in thinking! That's what makes the world interesting. If all thought the same....how boring! Great question. God's peace to you, my friend, and to all.... Thank you for reminding us all, that all muslims are not terrorist thinking. We tend to "lump" everyone into the same basket and that is not right....we have Christians who think they must do God's judging and killing on abortion clinics! Wrong, wrong, wrong! Love is the theme of Christianity.

Answer 2

I am glad you are no supporter of terrorism and i would not dream of saying anything offensive to you!

To answer you question, I have changed religions a number of times in my life. I went from a Baptist to a 7th Day Adventist. From that to a Mormon. From that back to a Baptist. Then my wife and I converted to Unitarian Universalist. Later we tried to start a New Age Metaphysical church. Then we were Agnostics for a long season, before finally joining a small Church of Christ. Why? I guess we were searching for something that suited us better. We have studied with Jehovah's Witnesses. Currently some young Mormon missionaries are seeking to convert us, but I don't think there is much chance of that, though we like the boys a lot and enjoy their visits.

Answer 3

I was raised Baptist as a child and was baptised then. However, it was by my choice because my parents did not have any religion. My dad was an atheist and my mom is agnostic. When I got married, I changed to a Methodist church to be able to go to the same church as my older sister. I liked that church but we moved further away than what I could comfortably travel. I have visited in a Church of God, did bible study with some pentecostal group, I have attended so many other types of churches I can't even remember the names, I have read on my own different Holy books the Qur'an, the Bible(KJV, NTV), the books of the apochrypha,tried to learn the wiccan path, the I AM discourses, parts of teaches from the Talmud and I never found my niche. I finally decided to stay close to my original roots but to just forgo churches altogether. I read the bible, I pray , and I follow the teachings of Jesus. I treat all people the same without regard for color, race, creed, or religion. I believe there are good and bad in ever religion. My doctor is a Muslim (SUFI) and he has given me some texts to look at as well. I know there are terrorists in baptism, pedophilia in catholocism, snake handling with pentacostal, etc. All across the board there are the bad that have overshadowed the good in every religion, and none have been spared. Not all baptists are terrorist, not all pentacostal are snake handlers ,etc., it is time the world learns to take a look within their own infrastructure and fix what is wrong within before they try to point fingers at what needs to be fixed in anybody elses. It is time to stop passing the blame off on someone else and pluck the beam from thine own eye before we pull the mote from our brother's eye.
Insha'allah, God bless and merry meet, whatever it is to you, love to all.

Answer 4

I had to "convert" about 4 times before seeing I needed to change my mentality from "joining the elite right and correct club" to abandoning all authoritarian religions period and focus on spirituality.

the funny thing is, with cultures or other ways of life (some say buddhism is not a religion) they do not seek converts but people like water gradually find thier way from the ice deposited on mountains to the waters that trickle to the creeks, rivers and valleys, lakes and end back into the Ocean of life.

not by force, but natually in our own time

if you found peace, good for you. finding a balance is possible in any religion or spirituality, you must not then push it upon others or it becomes a dogma or leash to control others.

it must come from within not from without. some people feel they must be ruled and told what to do, some feel they must be the rulers.

the ruled or the 'sheep' often lack desire to understand and like thier bliss and having a guru or immam over them to dictate right and wrong. the rulers or the gurus and immams love having little sheep who need constant attention and this is a twisted symbiosis or parasitic relation.

I want a relation that is mutual and equally beneficial, no justification for inequality or servitude to a god we can't see but to a person who claims god put them there

Answer 5

I was an Atheist and converted to Christianity. Because of a physical experience with God.
Before doing so, I revued other religions such as Islam. And found Islam to be based on stories of a false prophet who was a liar, advocated lying and was a pedophile and forced others into Islam by the edge of the sword.

Answer 6

personally have taken what I believe to be some of the best ideas from the various Religious Belief Systems and incorporated them along with some of the Ancient Ways of my ancestors into the basic Christian Religious Belief System. the Religious Belief System I personally follow satisfies my needs after having changed and incorporated the other ideas however seriously doubt if anyone else would be happy with or follow my ideas totally because of my personal idiosyncrasies. what works for me truthfully is all I care about. I'll respect your right to free will and worship as you choose as long as you do the same for me.

Answer 7

I grew up as a Catholic, but I always wondered why they didn't teach what the Bible said. I started questioning things, at around the age of 13, as I always had Jesus Christ in my heart, but the Catholic religion wasn't teaching me much. It was more about the Catholic Church, than about my Savior, Jesus.
As I started learning, I left the church, and attended a church that taught things straight out of the Bible. All went well for about 10 years, but then, something happened within the organizations leadership, and the conditions in the church changed drastically to a cult like situation. Many true Christians left, including myself, I then belonged to a similar group, whose doctrines were more like what the former Bible teaching church was. A number of us attended for many years, and we still communicate and observe some of the same Holy Days, and we are still friends and study the Bible. It's not really a church, in the sense that we have no building, but God's church is made up of many people, many individuals from many religions, and since God knows what is in our hearts, all those who worship the true God, are all His special people. It's not for any of us to tell another what religion is correct for them. We must all work out our own salvation in whatever way God inspires us to do. We also must NOT judge another person's religion, as God sees our hearts, and does not want any one of us to perish. Judging is for God.
I'm glad you found peace in the Muslim religion, and many of us Christians, who allow Christ to show our light to the world, have the peace of Jesus, as well.
Thanks for raising this question, and peace to you, as well.

Answer 8

when i was a child,my aunt took me to Methodist church.my mom sent me to catholic classes on Wednesdays,while growing up my mom became a Pentecostal Evangelist.Into adult hood i read books by different eastern authors,and found different thoughts.Then i found the Koran and attended the mosque in new york that use to be Malcolm X's mosque and studied Islam for a while.The studying of the Koran opened up my eyes to see deeper into scripture and not to take all that is written as surface meaning. The Koran really taught me to look deeper into the bible and I was better able to understand it's meanings because I learned to see deeper meanings in all scripture. right now i have no one religion b/c in order to belong to a religion one has rules that make you belong.I find Gods laws and statues clear and the words of Christ ring in my ears daily.Do unto others,when asked what to pray,the Christ said pray this,our father etc. so I don't speak ill of what others celebrate,whatever gets them closer to God works. what ever their soul finds peace in I am happy for them.As for me and my family, we will do Gods will and do unto others and we will pray to our father often,before sunrise,noon,evening and bed.At times I feel as though I am in constant prayer and I do love the blessings that are upon me and my seeds.

Answer 9

I have never altered religion me, but for religion me is something very sesintif. in fact if terrorism problem only them that soybean cake what they want and [do] not concerning with religion. since for me all religions on this earth have one [is] same mission that is a endless peace [is] not war making ruination on this earth. peace for all mankinds

Answer 10

there is not even a single human on this earth who had not changed his relligion.

in my oppinion there are only two relligions good and bad and rest like islam, hinduism or christanity are just different names of good relligion.

every human once or more does a wrong thing in life and that time he accepts bad relligion otherwise everyone is a good human being.