Are you a convert?

Question

1.) What faith did you grow up in?
2.) What religion are you now?
3.) Why did you stay/change?

Answer 1

1. Atheism/agnosticism, hedonism and scientism.
2. Ultra-conservative, Southern Baptist Christian
3. Witnessed unexplainable miracles, started reading the Holy Bible, changed my mind.

Answer 2

1) United Methodist.
2) Wiccan.
3) When I got older and started really thinking about the personal observations I'd made in life and spent more time actually studying the Bible, Christianity ceased to make sense to me. I just couldn't find myself drawn to a religion with a complete absence of a mother figure and that says I have horrible menstrual cramps and debilitating migraines on a monthly basis (and I do) because Eve ate an apple off the tree of knowledge. God didn't offer ME the opportunity to eat the apple or not eat the apple, so why am I being punished (severely punished some months) for a decision I didn't make? That and Christianity is quite sexist if you take it literally, which many of its followers do, and it's just too illogical a path for me to feel comfortable following. Those that do, more power to them, but they also judge me based on beliefs that still prevail from the Malleus Maleficarum, which was published in the 15th century before people understood medicine or science. As a Summa Coom (have to spell phonetically or Yahoo thinks it's a bad word) Laude college grad, it just makes no sense to me at all to rely on a 15th century book to tell you what Witches are and what they aren't.

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Answer 3

Yes.
1. Methodist
2. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka Mormon)
3. I realized what the Methodist church taught was not what I believed while I was at college. I actually went to the library and found a book of all the religions in the world and began to investigate. First Methodist, then the faiths of friends, then others I had heard of. I eventually remembered the religion of a friend who was Mormon and looked up that one in the "book o' religions" and found that what they believed was for the most part what I believed. I went to their church and began reading the Book of Mormon and prayed a lot and got my answer that the church is true. Very soon after, I was baptized, and am now a member of the church. It was the best thing about college. :)

Answer 4

I was brought up in a strange religious household. My father is Jewish. My mother was raised Roman Catholic yet lives more of a pagan life style, or so she likes to say.

Personally, I hold no affiliation with any religion. They are too strict and regimented for me personally. There is so much good in each religion that I have a hard time choosing one, and there is so much bad in each one as well. So I just live a life that is good, doing good for myself and others without getting taken advantage of and know that my final outcome, based on my life, will be a good one.

Answer 5

Grew up Christian
Now I'm Muslim
I had lots of questions about why Christians worship Jesus, and the Trinity makes absolutely no sense. I also didn't believe that Jesus needed to die for anybody's sins, because that doesn't make any sense either. I was big in a singular God and self-accountability. For me, Islam answered the questions and the voids that Christianity left me with.

Answer 6

1. Methodist/Baptist
2. Mostly atheist (sometimes agnostic)
3. The B/S and hate that is taught in religion. No one follows the Christ anymore, plus I think the bible is as valid as Grimm's Fairy Tales-in other words, stories of morality, some of which isn't moral at all.

Answer 7

My parents were catholic and changed to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints about 6 years before I was born. I was raised in that church, and I would say I went through my own little personal conversion that led me to have a strong personal conviction to continue to follow it no matter what my parents did or didn't say.

I think everybody who has a strong personal conviction or testimony of their faith has experienced "conversion" because the process of gaining that is the same - lots of personal study, soul searching etc.

Answer 8

1 Roman Catholic
2 Episcopalian
3 I changed because, in addition to doctrinal differences, when I went to the local Episcopal church I felt like I had come home.

Several friends of mine have reported the same feeling when they found their personal religious choice (regardless of denomination or religion).

Answer 9

I grew up agnostic.

I don't have a religion, but my spiritual practices are most closely compared to Zen Buddhism

I chose this path because dogma is not a necessity and it is non-judgmental of other faiths.

Answer 10

Grew up Christian
Converted to the Islamic faith
I found Christian teaching to be way to convusing. The whole Islamic faith fits for me, makes since to me. Your worshipping the Creator of the world, not someone that was created by Him.