If you do have a religion, how did you become of that religion?

Question

It seems most are brought up in a religion and the people who were called by GOD seem to have just slipped through the cracks of discussion and proof. Other than the born again christians.

Anyways, what religion are you and how did you become?

Answer 1

Hi, I am a Scientologist..... here is my story:

When I was 17 still in school in London UK,I looked around me at life in general, what I was being taught by my teachers and also my parents in particular, and realised that they did not actually have answers to my questions.This was quite a shock at the time, and I actually got quite depressed, I thought:" I don't want to bring children into this world the way it is". I even got sent to the doctor, who offered me "something to take the edge off things"(valium was very popular back then). He also asked me if I was pregnant!! I declined his offer and started searching for answers myself.
I got interested in Eastern thinking, meditation, and even went to see a guru who asked me if I wanted "the word". I felt he really knew nothing about me and did not seem very interested either way, so again I declined his offer.
I decided to go to teacher training college, as I thought that might be a way to help change and improve conditions in life. In the summer before starting college, summer of 1971, I travelled to Israel and spent 6 weeks there, travelling and working. I spent time in the Negev desert on an acheaological dig, picked apples in a kibbutz, etc. While there I had this realisation about myself. Basically , that I AM myself, independant of what or who is around me. Until that point I thought I was the sum of what others considered me to be, my culture, genes, environment etc.
When I got back I found out from a friend of mine that a guy I had a crush on before I left, had cut off all his hair (long hair was "in" at that time) and become a Scientologist. I was curious, I imagined him with a shaved head and a tamborine chanting his way down the streets of London!
I was told he worked at the Church of Scientology in London. So I went there. He was there, pleased to see me etc. For me the whole meeting was affected by my "crush" on this guy, he hadn't shaved his head, just got a hair cut and looked pretty OK. But he did lend me a copy of a book about Scientology called "The Fundementals of Thought"
Anyway I went to college (in Liverpool) and he wrote me long letters that I didn't answer. The college experience gave me more certainty that the answers were not available in the "system". Particularly I took psychology as one of my additional subjects, hoping to find out more about what makes us "tick". It quickly became apparent to me that this subject was pretty useless and did not really know anything about the mind or the spirit (the word psychology comes from the Greek word PSYCHE which means soul or spirit).
So one day I was feeling guilty about not answering this guys letters, so I started reading the book he lent me.
There was a chapter in it called "The Parts of Man" and it descibed the exact same thing I had realised for my self while in Israel.
Having someone else agree with me that what I found to be true was infact true was enough for me to know that I had found something finally.
I'm not one to waste my time, so when I got a telegram from this guy asking me to come to London and help out at the Church of Scientology, I packed my bags and left.This was in early 1972.
Since that time I have been a very active Scientologist in many areas of life ,married a Canadian, moved to Toronto in 1981. Have 2 adult kids, helped establish schools using education methods of Hubbard,
ran Drug Rehab and Drug Ed programs, also using these techniques.
Helped many people change and improve their lives, and have personally achieved a level of understanding and ability that is beyond
any "price".
In short for me, I found what I was looking for. A way to change and improve life and conditions for myself and others and the adventure of understanding life continues.

Answer 2

Although I grew up in a nominally Christian household, I realized from the time I was quite young that scientific evidence could not be squared with biblical accounts. I chose to believe the evidence, because there are mechanisms for establishing its correctness. No religion contains any such mechanism.

Answer 3

Currently Christian. I was raised as a catholic and like many stopped going when i was old enough to make my own choice. Got married in the church, got a couple of kids, and then started feeling guilty about not providing them with a religious background, but still did not go back. We took the kids to my sister in laws church (church of christ) for a week of summer bible camp, the kids loved it and so did we. We've been attending for 2 years and love the community feel and renewed interest in religion. It's a choice i feel good about for my family.

Answer 4

I try my best to follow the teachings of Jesus from a book called the course in miracles.

It is a recent revelation of his teachings. I know, I was skeptical too, but it made a believer out of me.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 5

I have attended three churches in my lifetime...Im now Methodist again like childhood... Born again in 76

Answer 6

I was born Baptist but abandoned that faith when it didn't answer the questions I had.

I chose Wicca and have been happy ever since.

Blessed Be )O(

Answer 7

I'm Wiccan. I chose it in 1998.

Answer 8

I am a pagan! reason, being a christian for most of my life! simple as that!!

Answer 9

i was christian , because my father was a Christan , my father was a Christan because my grandfather was a Christan , My . . . . .