Are there any people on this forum that have converted from one religion to the next?Why?plz explain.?

Answer 1

I converted from atheism to Christianity 5 years ago. I objectively read the Bible, while trying to find arguments with it so I could debate Christians, I was suddenly struck by how true it all was and was saved. While reading Romans 10:9. As mentioned above it was SO TRUE, and I guess I got tired of trying to define what was true. Then that is the whole point, thou shalt have no other gods before me, and I was being my own god.

Answer 2

I "converted" from Christianity to agnostic as a young adult. After many years as an agnostic I became a Jew-by-choice because it is a wonderful community of people working together to make this a better world for all humanity. There is very little focus on death and the afterlife since no one knows for sure what the afterlife will bring -- if there is one. Judaism is about living life today!

Judaism is universal in that all of humanity is judged individually according to what they've done in this life. No one gets prejudicial treatment be they Jew, Christian, Muslim, or atheist.
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Answer 3

From Protestant to Catholicism.

There is only one true God. He took flesh and became man only once. When man, He founded only one religion and one Church, the Roman Catholic Religion and the Roman Catholic Church.

That Church is the divinely appointed guardian of the writings divinely inspired by God, known as the Bible. This Holy Bible is like no other book, because no other book has God for its principal author.

Nevertheless the Bible is not the foundation of the Church, but the Church is the foundation of the Bible. That is why Catholics need Mother Church as the guardian and interpreter of the Bible.

Alas, Protestants have sown much confusion in the domain of Bible translations and Bible Studies, and in our own time their errors have been renewed by the pseudo-Catholics known as modernists.

With the simplicity and clarity of a Catholic Catechism, this "Catechism of the Bible" re-establishes the mind of the Catholic Church on many a vexed point. May it help many Catholics graze safely in the divine pastures of Holy Scripture.

by Richard Williamson, Bishop
Winona, MN August 16th, 1997

Answer 4

Yes. I converted from Christianity to Wicca. When I grew up and started thinking for myself - really thinking for myself, away from my parents' house - Christianity ceased to make sense to me. I believed in a Divine force, but not one that was vengeful and punishing. After all, I was no longer a child. Why would I believe that our Creator thought I was and expected me to behave as one, i.e. that threats of hell and eternal damnation would work in deterring me from "sin"? That just didn't make sense to me. My parents had raised me to know right from wrong, so why would "God" expect those lessons hadn't taken and that he needed to continue to watch over me like a five year old who can't be left with a plate of cookies?

After coming to some conclusions about life, the way we interrelate, the way that would be more beneficial for us to interrelate, and how I thought it most appropriate for human beings to treat one another, I arrived at the doorstep of Wicca. Once I got past the very ingrained belief that anything non-Christian (and especially Witchcraft) was of the devil, and realized that Satan doesn't actually exist, the conversion was very easy. I've been very happy ever since.

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Answer 5

You mean converted in the past? Or converted as a result of posting on Yahoo Answers?


I have converted from Christianity to Ásatrú, but that was many years ago. Why? Because I found what was for me, a better religion, it fit more with my soul.What I like best about being an Ásatrúar? That we are polytheistic. That is, we believe in a number of deities, including Goddesses as well as Gods. That we do not accept the idea of "original sin", the notion that we are tainted from birth and intrinsically bad, as does Christianity. Thus, we do not need "saving".

Because it gives me a fulfillment in life that no other religion ever could do. Being connected to the Gods who are as close to you as bloodkin, following a Lore that teaches you to be strong and independent, honoring your ancestors and the heroes of before, that is Asatru for me.

It gives me strength in daily life, it gives me hope that there are actually Gods that care, and that stand with you if times are hard.
Asatru is the only religion that doesn't clash with the modern day scientific view on the world, it views the world as it is, a natural place, with many Gods.

I like being Asatru because it rewards people who are academically-inclined. Really and pervasively, not just in theory.

I like being Asatru because its ethos match mine. I can be a reasonably good example of an Asatruer; I would never be anything but a marginal, footnoted, troublemaking member of any other religion. I like hanging around with people who think that an oath is an oath, for example.

I like being Asatru because it validates my inclination to bonk irritating people on the head with a Big (Rhetorical) Hammer. I am blunt; in Asatru, blunt is a good thing. "Frith" and "cooperation" are much more resonant values for me than "niceness" or "harmony".

I like Asatru because it is not a One Way kind of religion. I can disagree strongly with other Asatruers about all sorts of things and we can still be in the same religion together just fine. And I don't have to worry about sorting out all the people outside of Asatru, either.

And I like Asatru because it describes the world (mundane and spiritual) as I experience it. And I get to talk to other people who see it the same way I do. Constant simultaneous translation can be quite draining.

Answer 6

Went from being Lutheran to an Atheist.

I had doubts about God as a child and it only got worse as I got older. Three things completed the transition for me:

1. Having my pastor say he wanted to slap me because I question why he refused communion to one of our members, and the lack of concern/action by church leadership when our church sought help for similar issues concerning this pastor.

2. Everyone trying to tell me that God would see me through during the time of my Dad's illness and eventually death. That wore thin with me because it was through my own actions that I survived that time.

3. Marrying another atheist who did not try and force his views on me, but exchanged intelligent dialog and listened to me and helped me find unbiased answers to me questions. He didn't try to influence me one way or the other; the decision to embrace my feelings had to be mine alone. My husband was willing to support whatever I chose to do as long as we continued to respect each other.

When I look at all the things that are preached, practiced and done in the name of God, that's reason enough for me not to believe.

Answer 7

From Catholicism to Paganism.

Reason was that I found the priests seemed to be working with a "do as I say" theory instead of "do as I do" and, as such, I started to educate myself on religion. Simply put, one cannot allow sheep to be educated or they will all learn how to get out of the pen...simply put, my taught beliefs no longer made sense.

Answer 8

Christian to atheist to diest. My last round of questions has everyone assuming that I am a Christian hating atheist, which I am not. I believe in the existence of a God, I simply choose to follow no religion.

Answer 9

I left Christianity for Paganism because I was shown that God is much more forgiving than Christians make Him out to be. It does not matter which religious path you choose. They all lead to the same place. So I chose that path that I was drawn to.

Answer 10

From Christianity to Islam.

I liked it.