What was your religion?
Did you have a sincere faith?
How did you change your mind?
2007-03-08 10:51:34 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes, was a Muslim, i had extreme faith at one point, I lived my life to know god and to please him, i literally had no interest in anything related to the material world. What changed me? The fact that people of other faiths acted the same way as Muslims did, the fact that there are good people in every religion who don't deserve to go to hell. the fact that Science had nothing to do with anything written in any religious book. etc....
2007-03-08 10:57:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was brought up R/catholic in a private school of brothers , and actually I was this close to join the seminary , so I did learn lots of it , but my change began by pure fear of the devil and the notion that Jesus would send me to hell for ever by a mear sin !!! , then I began to question the rational of it , and then questioned why only 1/4 of the world population were privileged to go to heaven just because they are Christians , I could not accept that my all loving God would castigate for EVER 3/4 of the people for just not adhering to the teachings that was written by some monks 300 years after death. Well so after lots of searching and finding truths on how we have been perpetrated by religious societies as a form of Taxation for salvation with fear mongering , that I said to my self , the hell with religions , and by being a good man I will come back again , and again until I will become a helping spirit to a young soul .
2007-03-08 19:07:42 · answer #2 · answered by young old man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was raised Christian, but began rejecting it around 4th grade, when I started seeing its falseness. I was a devout atheist for about 8 years before becoming an agnostic, ehen I learned to respect other ways than my own (a by-product of Christian background). I've since drifted on to more nature-based religion, as I learned that religion didn't have to be (and shouldn't be) about orthodoxy, dogma, conversion and organizations.
2007-03-08 18:56:47 · answer #3 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well.. I did go to catholic school for a couple years. But no one would ever have said that I was "religious". Catholic school wasn't so bad as people make it out to be. It was boring, but that's about the worst of it. I don't think I ever really believed in god. I heard about god, of course and had sort of a "Ok.... if you say so" kind of attitude towards it. I was just a kid, after all. I knew that kids didn't win arguments with adults.
2007-03-08 18:56:44 · answer #4 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my case, no. My parents were nominally Christian, so I had some exposure to it. But it became apparent by the time I was eight that the biblical tales could not be reconciled with science, and since science is obviously right (it works!), the bible had to go. Any scientist is always interested in challenges to his ideas, and religion is no exception; I have never found a reason to believe in any of them.
2007-03-08 18:56:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Raised Catholic but haven't believed at least since high school. Maybe longer; I can't actually remember a time when I did believe. Didn't think much about it until my mid-thirties, when I finally read the bible and decided, "This is nonsense and I haven't believed a word of it for at least twenty years anyway. How about that. Time for a drink."
2007-03-08 19:01:29 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was raised religious: Greek Orthodox.
I tried, but I never had a sincere faith.
I just thought that if there was really a God, it wouldn't have been so hard to detect.
2007-03-08 18:57:21 · answer #7 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes only because my mother christened me c of e dragged me to church put me in Sunday schools class and made me go on church youth group camps.
then when i got older and went to high school and learnt history,science and biology it all started to click into place that everything about god creating the planet,plants and Adam and eve were a load of crap.
today i still like debating this issue with church goers and watch them stumble over their words as you get right into it .but the funnest thing of all is that my mother who dragged me to church and all is now a non believer ,( canny hey )
2007-03-08 19:05:32 · answer #8 · answered by luckylovelee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I tried to become a Christian. I can't really say I converted, but I was close. I just couldn't do it. I had too many unanswered questions.
2007-03-08 18:55:20 · answer #9 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I haven't. I wasn't indoctrinated as a child, and I was too clever to be taken in when I got older.
2007-03-08 18:56:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋