to all the converts?

Question

all converts. what religion were you, what religion are you know, and why?

love and peace:

syeda is actually a middle name... when i converted i decided to change my name and i had chosen a first and a last name.... both had really moved me for different reasons..... however i didnt have any idea of what my middle name should be....

a very close friend to me had just lost their mother and asked me if i would take her name... and that is how my middle name came to be

appreciate your asking
asalamwalaikum

king of crusades: your website is frozen

Answer 1

what perplexes me if you are a convert how are you a syeda.

Answer 2

My mother was Catholic growing up in a Catholic Orphanage, but didn't stay with it as an adult because she knew what the Priests and Nuns were doing long before it became a hot news item. She went to the Church of Christ for a decade, but lost interest due to them not willing to teach followers the whole Bible, especially women. That was the early 60s.

She began studying with the Jehovah's Witnesses one day as a result of looking something up in the Encyclopedia Britannica. She noted that the Ark of the Great Flood was a box, not a boat as churches taught, which they got from pagan beliefs.

My stepfather was raise Lutheran. He was a Navy Veteran, and was very much against the JWs. He was not happy about Mom studying. But, the woman who came around started bringing her husband, who would visit with my stepfather. He didn't preach, just talked about his Navy years (before becoming a JW), about life, and whatever else was of interest. After a year, he began to study, also, and was baptized two years later. When he got baptized, he didn't wear a teeshirt, though all the other men did. As he was coming out of the pool, my mother told him that the other men may have been wearing shirt because of having something similar to what he had on his arm. He turned red and slapped his hand over the topless hula dancer tattoo. He had completely forgot about it.

Answer 3

With the exception of a couple of short stays with my grandmother, I was raised by my mother with no religion, completely secular.

Then I think I was kind of pagan in belief, then I started to get into witchcraft which almost led me into Satanism.

But then I did a 180 degree turn around and became Christian, Catholic to be specific.

I chose Christianity because I had realized while I was into other things that Satan is real and his promises are lies. I realized how close I was to being in danger of Hell. So, I started looking into Christianity.

With all the denominations, it was very confusing at first, but I knew that if God is Truth and Mercy then He would not be a God of confusion. He would only have one Church teaching one truth about Him and His Church would be clearly visable in every part of the world. It doesn't make any sense for there to be over 33,000 denominations that argue continually about what it means to be Christian. Without a Pope, that's all that people can do is argue back and forth with opinions. But when people disagree and are confused as to what to believe, the Pope can settle an argument once and for all.

I did a process of elimination to determine which one when back to the time of Jesus and the Apostles, and that is the Catholic Church. I chose the Catholic Church because I believe that Jesus is God and that He only founded one universal (Catholic) Church. And there isn't a better Church to belong to than the only one that was founded by God Himself.

As far as scandal, all religions and all Christian denominations have it, and the Church has had scandal since the time of Judas. Jesus never said that His Church would be without scandal, and as a matter of fact, Jesus promised that there would always be scandals in his Church because people are human and we have a fallen nature. But, I think of it like this. A hospital is to help heal the sick, so there will always be sick people there in need of healing.

There is a saying that I like that goes..."You don't leave Peter because of Judas." If you think about it, it just doesn't make any sense to do that. The Catholic Church may have scandal, but the Catholic Church also has the fullness of revelation about God that was given to His Church directly from Jesus and through the apostles and bishops of the Church. The Catholic Church gets criticized often about not being "with the times", but the fact that the Church teaches what is old is evidence that she has protected the deposit of faith for over 2,000 years.

Answer 4

Christened Lutheran; grew up in "Christian (Methodist/Presbyterian)" family (never saw the inside of a church except for funerals and weddings, with family); parents allowed me to attend Baptist church with childhood friend, then Methodist church, sang in choir, with high school friend; married in Methodist church, Christened my children in Church of Christ; became agnostic; then, Baha'i.

The only religion I've ever really, truly, completely believed in, have been Baha'i 38 years, and every year just gets better. If only I hadn't wasted my 20s on agnosticism. Guess I had to go there to get here.

What a ride it's been! God is Most Glorious!

Answer 5

I have been born again, reborn and baptized more times than god himself can count and they are all the same. Now I am an eclectic solitary practitioner making up my own religion by splicing together the best parts of all the ones I have learned --I highly recommend it

Answer 6

Born Christian.
Wanted to convert to Islam. I studied it. I will never be a Muslim.
Hinduism is really beautiful. No penance, no fatwa.
But free thinking is the most beautiful of all.

Answer 7

Anglican to agnostic, not really much of a leap, but after seeing how rabid somechristians can be on here, and how ignorant, I started to question why god would want people to be like that, and if he really did exist

Answer 8

Was Catholic. I'm now a member of the Order of Rovin which is a type of Paganism.

Answer 9

I was born and raised Christian, but then I found my true spirituality. I am a witch.

Answer 10

ex-christian

atheist now. and im not saying its a religion... im just answering the first question.