Describe your conversion experience to your current faith or non-faith?

Answer 1

From the young age of around 6, I had questions about what they were telling me in Sunday School. Some of the scriptures just didn't make sense to me. I'd ask and the answer was always: "Have faith and it will all become clear." So I did. I had all the faith I could muster as a child. It never became clear.

As I grew up, I had the same questions and more, as I kept reading the bible, trying to understand and believe. But I couldn't make it all work out in my head. It didn't fit what I was learning in school, which DID make sense. But I clung to agnosticism for many years, unwilling to make that final step to acknowledge what I felt I knew.

It wasn't until Bush took office that I felt strong enough to say outloud, "I'm an atheist." I do say that truly, I'm agnostic because I don't think anyone can prove one way or the other if a god or gods really exist, but I truly doubt it. I say there is no god and therefore, I'm an atheist.

The day I said it outloud was one of the happiest days of my life, right up there with getting married and having my son. I felt free, happy, satisfied and just right inside. My conscience was clear, my heart felt like a burden had been lifted. I know it is the right choice for me, the right belief for me.

Everyone has to find their spot in life and when they do, it feels right. I'd just like people to enjoy their own lives and try very hard not to interfere in the path others are taking, without being asked, and to not make laws based on their belief in a deity. That should be enough.

Answer 2

I've studied Islam and all religions since I was 14. I didn't convert until I was 18. Honestly, it was the greatest experience of my life. No offense meant to anyone else here, but I found that it was not like the bible in the way it treated women. The Quran says that men may not harm their wives, and that if women fear harm from them they have the right to divorce. Islam also says women have the right to work and do with their earnings as they so choose. Islam also says she is duty bound to get the highest educatoin possible. Islam also says that her birth is ablessing. The bible says the opposite of this. The verse talking about beating a wife is mistranslated, as the word "daraba" that is used in the other 5 times of the Quran means to literally "beat it" as in tleave the area or go away.

Answer 3

I was a Christian since young as my parents were Christian - went to church every Sunday, read the Bible, prayed, took the religion seriously. Then something unfortunate happened to me and it hit me really hard. From my experience of suffering I realized that I could worship no god that deliberately caused suffering i.e. sending people to hell. I felt very strongly repelled by the notion of worshipping a god who would deliberately cause people to suffer in hell.

Ever since having no religion, I have become much more self-assured, am more sure of my tastes and opinions and have much greater peace of mind knowing that innocent people are not burning in hell. As a Christian I was a more anxious person, more confused about myself and other people. As a Christian there is this standard of being a good Christian that you try to live up to, and this idea of conformity made me feel that I had to conform in other ways to other people's standards. When I stopped believing in Christianity, I found that most of the things that troubled me were gone, I felt much more free and had much greater peace of mind and I saw things much more clearly and without confusion. I have found that the majority of my worries were related to my being a Christian, and it had prevented me from discovering myself - what I really like or dislike, what I find meaningful and the things I really believe in.

I have attended healing services in church and seen people get healed and heard people testify to healing, including limbs being lengthened. I think that the healing is all very well and good, and I have no explanation for it, but I know that Christianity doesn't work for me as I have been a Christian before and I would not want to go back to the state of mind of being a Christian. I value the pleasure I get from life and my peace of mind now too much.

Hope this helps :)

Answer 4

I learnt the mythology of the people I lived with as a child.
Life experience has shown me the vast potential for hypocrisy that many religions hold.
There was no 'conversion', I simply found, as much through trial and error, as bitter experience, that some beliefs worked better for me than others.

Answer 5

The start of my conversion was very terrifying.
I finally knew who God was and his holiness.
I felt completely "spiritually naked" as if all my sins were exposed and I needed to repent or else I will face judgment. It's as if the blindfolds came off and I found out who I really was. It was a pretty intense moment so much so that I got down on my knees and cried for mercy.
True story.

Answer 6

I had my doubts about god even as a youngster in a christian household. But, it wasn't until I moved out that I was really able to express my feelings and truly decide what I believe to be true. Currently, I'm agnostic, trying to figure out what works for me and I'm leaning toward atheism.

Answer 7

True story---In my spiritual quest,I stumbled into a Pentecostal AOG church.As I seemed to be asking too many questions,they sent along a senior Pastor of the church to "straighten me out".--so I asked this Pastor why Christ said in Luke 17v20&21--The Kingdom of God will never come with signs for the Kingdom of God is within you.
He told me that I had to remember that Christ was talking to the Pharisees,whom he hated---so he lied to them.
I kinda figured if the Pentecostal church had to call Christ a liar---just to prop up their own church propaganda of signs of the "end times"--it was time for me to keep searching!!!--:]

Answer 8

I was sitting on the hard wooden pew and listening to another sermon, when i realized, this is nonsense. Age 11.

Answer 9

Well um......I guess I just woke up one morning, and it appeared to me: I don't really know if there is or isn't a God out there....but I don't really care either.