Who has been your biggest influence in developing your spiritual beliefs?

Answer 1

I will have to say my mother. Growing up I watched her read all sorts of spiritual books from all different religions and belief systems. It gave me an appreciation for all schools of thought. I don't claim any religion or group but I have learned from all of them.
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Answer 2

Following a difficult time in my life I had lost my way as a Christian and just floated around aimlessly for a while. Whilst researching something else, I came across a website written by a hedgewitch and realised that that was what I was! (Before the Christians have a seizure, Hedgewitchcraft is a nature based path and has nothing at all to do with Satan!) I also re read a book that had been on my shelf for a while and it took on a whole new meaning to me. The book is Conversations with God (trilogy). It spoke to me like nothing ever before and I am peaceful with who and what I am for the first time in my life. The books took my spirituality to a new and wonderful level and I believe they came to me at the right time in my journey. They will speak to anyone and everyone whatever the religion or path they follow. It is not religious. Just beautifully spiritual and uplifting.

Answer 3

Bill Cosby.

I was raised in a christian family. One day my parents brought home a record of Bill Cosby's routines. It was an actual vinyl record. Remember vinyl? Yeah, I'm old....

Any way, It had the 3 bits about Noah that he used to do. I thought, "He's making fun of Noah - one of the prophets. God will have to do something about this, right?"

Nothing happened.

Later, I learned more and more about science, and history, and geology, and dinosaurs. The dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. The church said the world was only 6,000 years old. Someone was definitely wrong here, but which one?

Science has fossils, and evolutionary studies, and taxonomy, and repeatable tests, and evidence from all over the world.

The church had a book that contradicted itself. And the church said it was the one true way. Just like 187 other churches do.

I eventually chose rationality, declared myself an agnostic, and then an atheist, and never looked back.

Answer 4

For the most part, I have done that myself. I was raised with no religion and my father actually forbid me to attend church with my friends. When I got older and lived on my own I slowly began to learn about different religions. I attended many different churches and the Bible studies they offered. I got the most education from Jehovah's Witnesses. Even though I don't agree with all that they teach, most of what they believe made sense to me. I attended many studies and meetings with my Witness friends and learned a lot about God and how He expects us to live. Then one day I started reading about Islam and that is where I found what I was looking for. I am not happily married to a Musim man and learning more and more every day how Islam is meant to be practiced.

Answer 5

Myself. I don't easily influence by example. I did a lot of soul searching to reach my spiritual beliefs. I was raised in a STRICT Catholic home though so that may had lead to my path of self discovery and the path away from the church. I consider my self a Christian I just no longer call myself Catholic and I do not believe that you find God in a building or through the preaching of a minister(priest). I believe that God is in everything we see and the one true path to God is through our own hearts.

Answer 6

Education

Answer 7

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Answer 8

I did not grow-up around believers. The initial influence (which drew me to Christianity) was Mother Theresa and her testimony. Then Jesus took over.

signed,
a fundamentalist Christan

Answer 9

Pizza Hut

Answer 10

George Carlin