What is your religion?

Question

Were you born in that faith?
If you converted, why did you?

Answer 1

Atheist , Thanks God!

Answer 2

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My answer to your question is this: I am not necessarily religious, though I am very spiritual. I have converted from the faith that I was raised with & I based that decision upon my own beliefs. I converted because my original religion couldn't answer the questions I had & often people became very angry at those who asked. Once I found the answers I sought & could make sense of them within my own heart & mind, then I settled into my current faith.

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Answer 3

Atheist, raised Christian. I was a true believer until the age of twenty or so. I kept having nagging doubts. How could I, a mere mortal, decide if my religion was right or wrong? How can I be sure that the Bible is no different than the Illiad or some other mythological work? How come humans are so hateful to one another, if we were made in His image?

The list of questions I had went on and on. Finally I just realized that I had been fooling myself all along. The simple answer, that one that I had been afraid to admit my whole christian life, was that there probably wasn't a God, and that my religion was little more than superstition.

You can't imagine the relief and happiness I felt when I came to that revelation. I could finally dispense with the self-deception and mental anguish being a theist put me through. I could focus on living life, having fun, and loving my fellow humans.

Answer 4

Born into a Methodist household. Studied various faiths from all over the world. Eventually came to Reformed Presbyterianism and found that it had teh best overall explaination for why the world is the way it is as well as what I consider the most correct interpretation of Scripture.

Answer 5

I am a christian (though I don't consider it to be a religion but more like a relationship) no I was not born a christian (though I don't you can but at some stage you decide that you will accept Jesus into your life. when become a christian, you born again) I became a christian when my dad said to me "why don't you got to youth group at that church" so I did. And because that people were so friendly, because of the fellowship and of course the word of God. I became a Christian.

Answer 6

Religion is nothing but faith in a certain philosophy. As each religion has some best things in it even though i am Hindu now i am non religious as i let my life with some of the best quotes from Githa, Bible, Quron

Answer 7

Lutheran, converted to it in 1986. I have researched a lot of religion and, for me, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod sticks closest to Scripture with adding to taking away from.

I fell in love with the service the first time I went. It is a liturgical service and worships God with his own words from Scripture.

Answer 8

Raised in a Methodist family, but became agnostic as an adult. Remained agnostic more than 30 years until finding Judaism. Why did I convert? I let Edmond Fleg say it for me...

I am a Jew because the faith of Israel demands no abdication of my mind.

I am a Jew because the faith of Israel asks every possible sacrifice of my soul.

I am a Jew because in all places where there are tears and suffering the Jew weeps.

I am a Jew because in every age when the cry of despair is heard the Jew hopes.

I am a Jew because the message of Israel is the most ancient and the most modern.

I am a Jew because Israel's promise is a universal promise.

I am a Jew because for Israel the world is not finished; men will complete it.

I am a Jew because for Israel man is not yet fully created; men are creating him.

I am a Jew because Israel places man and his unity above nations and above Israel itself.

I am a Jew because above man, image of the divine unity, Israel places the unity which is divine.

Edmond Fleg, "Why I Am a Jew"

Judaism worships a God who is the Father of all humanity, whose attributes of kindness, mercy, compassion, and justice are to serve as examples for all our actions.

Judaism teaches that every person is created in God's image and therefore is of supreme value.

Judaism asserts that people are to be co-workers with God in preserving and improving the earth. We are to be stewards of the world's resources and to see that God's bounties are used for the benefit of all. Nothing that has value can be wasted or destroyed unnecessarily.

Judaism stresses that we are to love other people as ourselves, to be kind to strangers, "for we were strangers in the land of Egypt," and show compassion to the homeless, the poor, the orphan, the widow, even for enemies, and for all of God's creatures.

Judaism places great emphasis on reducing hunger. A Jew who helps to feed a hungry person is considered, in effect, to have fed God.

Judaism mandates that we seek and pursue peace. Great is peace, for it is one of God's names, all God's blessings are contained in it, it must be sought in times of war, and it will be the first blessing brought by the Messiah.

Judaism exhorts us to pursue justice, to work for a society where each person has the ability to obtain, through creative labor, the means to lead a dignified life for himself and his family.

Judaism stresses involvement, nonconformity, resistance to oppression and injustice, and a constant struggle against idolatry.

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Answer 9

Born and raised a catholic.
As I matured and began to look into religions and the reason for them, I realized that I had been deceived,
and now I'm an atheist.

Answer 10

I believe that the Creator is our parent and our friend, if we allow it.

I was converted to that point of view by all the self-styled religious experts who say so many awful things.

After reading the Bible through and the Koran, I decided that the word of God will be found in what has been created, not in the mouths of charlatans.

Answer 11

Born to non-practicing Muslim family. I started practicing my religion after I studied Islam and other religions. I found many defects with other religions, but none with Islam. (Most of the bad things that are talked about Islam are untrue - they are done intentionally by the enemies of Islam).

Alhamdulillah (Praise be to Allah) I am Muslim now! Very Grateful for finding the Truth!