How dId you go about choosing your religion?

Question

Was there some sort of catalouge you picked from?

Answer 1

I didn't choose my faith; God choose me. and every single believer! So praise God for that.

Answer 2

After I got my freedom at the age of 18 as far as my parents are still conserned they think I'm a full Christain when really I'm half athiest.
But If I had a chace from the start and lived in a large city I would go to each kind of church for a few days to see what I liked then I would choose from there.
I am really curous about wicca but I don't really want to be one b/c all of that equipment and riturals sound like alot of work. Plus some of there stuff just looks expensive.

Answer 3

It choose me, or I really didn't choose, depending on how you look at it...

I'm a traditional witch. My personal worship has manifest itself since I can remember. Originally, it focused on the moon, on identifing with and calling up the winds and storms, on researching pagan pantheons, ESP, ghost sightings and witch stories in elementary and junior high, and on personal mythology. My rituals were minimal, and involved candles, objects of personal significance incluing an anthame, offerings to the spirits, etc. Even a seance and guided meditations to my fellow tweens, and writing down spells I had read of significance. I was an ambitious child. When I grew up, I realized I had been practicing witchcraft all my life; right down to the familar cat, hat, knife, cape, and other tools. Well, that's useful to know. So my worship had to incorperate all the elements I have always known, plus the maturity of a more focused and studied learning.

I am a strawberry blond decendant of all the British Ilses and respond best to the Celtic imagry. Therefore, my Matron Goddess is of the Celtic pantheon, and suits my birth gifts, inclanations, and talents. I have icons to a few others of different pantheons that I find useful for my work, such as Tara, Laxmi, a Chinese Virgin Warrior image, a black candle in the shape of a pentangle for the Crone, and a Nigerian Fertility statue for the Mother. Witches are very egalitarian...

I am now a fully apprenticed traditional healer who studied under a hertitage witch. I make my own potions, salves, syrups, and decoctions for myself, my family, and clients. I'm in the process of founding a church structure that can support pagans who are left out by the current mostly Wiccan support networks, like Native spiritualists and other traditionalists. I live my beliefs in my lifestyle every day, and always have, even before I knew what to call it...

We need worship to focus, incorperate the values and skills we wish to remake ourselves in the image we desire, and to devote ourselves to something that seems bigger and more universal. Since we are the Universe, not matter which manifestation of the Universe we choose to see as Deity and therefore worthy of emulating, they are reflections of ourselves. Choice isn't an issue. The only religion you can be is the one that most accurately reflects yourself.

Answer 4

If you are serious about living part of a religion by choice and not based on what your family is part of, I suggest spending time researching what their primary beliefs are and matching them up to the way you think about many issues.

Nothing wrong with choosing to fit into a specific religion, just make sure you feel that the other members are like-minded and that you are also doing it for yourself and not to simply fit into a mould.

Religion can offer a lot to a person in the sense of giving them further direction and meaning.

This may not be for all people and of course this is likely to create the largest debate, but hopefully no-one will feel the need to impose their beliefs on you. It should feel natural to you.

Good luck.

Answer 5

My mom was Luthern, my dad was something else.. cant remember. My mom got away from church but still wanted my bro and I to go so she found a church that picked the kids up. (bus) it was a baptist church, So I had been going to a southern baptist church since I was 3-4 then about 4 years ago I felt that there was more out there that I wasnt learning. I tried a couple different churches and wasn invited to the one I go to now. I really liked the preacher, the church, the people and I really liked the messages. I prayed about it and felt that, that was the place I needed to be. Now ive been there 4 years and I am currently the Activity Cord for the Youth group, Assistant Youth Leader and I watch the Kids on Mondays for our womans group.

Answer 6

I don't follow religion. Why should I have to conform to what it says in a book that I know nothing about? I am a woman and man comes from me...not the other way round! Maybe some one got wasted and invented religion cos I'm sure that if the world didn't have religion...we'd all still be fine.

Answer 7

I read a number of books on various religions and then I had a near death experience which I dealt with without even thinking about any sort of god (Mind you lost a leg in the process) After that I decided all religions were nonsense

Answer 8

God says "I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness."
Since i was a child i was looking for answers, that i never found in the Bible. I was about to become atheist. Then i prayed and keep looking, God guided me and brought me to the eternal religion.

Answer 9

I long ago decided that religions were about economics, power and control and although there are undoubtedly a lot of very good and kind people of all religions, the religion whatever one they choose to follow tends to corrupt their natural humanity - so from my point of view its a curse on all of their houses.

Answer 10

LOL! I was offered Christianity by my parents and raised that way. At 13, I read the Bible for myself and found it to be lacking (I'm being nice here). I read it again and completely rejected it. After a few years of not caring (and being glad I don't have to go to church anymore), then a good class on Mythology/World History, I went from agnostic to atheist. Simple as that.

Answer 11

Revulsion from Christianity and the other mysogynist cults that pass for main stream religions.