Is there any one event or thing or person that made you become the religion (or lack of) you are toay?

Answer 1

The fact I was born in a Christian country by Christian parents.

Answer 2

When I was young I noticed how alot of the church people around us were very rude, and prejudice and then learning that throughout history more people have been killed in the name of god than any other reason.
It took me a long time to figure out, "it is not the religion(s) itself I have a problem with, it is the organization of it like a business corporation I hate"
and always keeping in mind that all the religions out there are being handled by mere humans, which have the same amount of evil and stupidity as everyone else.

Answer 3

It's not really a specific event or person, but the fact that I personally knew of pastors in at least three of the churches I had attended that engaged in extramarital affairs led me to question my religion. Now I'm kind of ecclectic about religion - I think that just leading a good and wholesome life and following the basic tenants of any faith (being good to others, etc.), is the important part. I don't consider myself a part of any religion, as I find myself having little "faith" in religious leaders. I think that basically, whether we're Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Budhist, or any one of the thousands of the world's religions, that we all basically believe in the same thing - there's a higher power that we're accountable to who created this wonderful world to us, and we should be held accountable to that higher power. I just don't want to feel that I should be basing my beliefs on the words of men who seem very hypocritical any longer.

Answer 4

From the time I was born until I was about 14 years old, I was raised strict Jehovah Witness. I'm talking about meetings every-other day at the "Kingdom Hall," door-to-door on the weekends, lack of ALL holidays, birthdays, or parties in general .. and not to mention the lack of decent music, movies, and games.

The JWs/Cult turned me off from Religion. Completely.

Answer 5

My Gramma was the spiritual center of my family. She was devout and taught me not only were prayers needed in your life, but acton as well. My family has been Roman Catholic for as many generations as we have been able to trace it back. I watched my Gramma practice her faith devotely all my life. She raised 9 children, 2 foster children and helped with 4 of her grandchildren. She cooked, cleaned, sewed, gardened and farmed and never once did I hear her complain about how much work there was, but rather how grateful we should be to God for providing the bounty before us. We all went to mass, and when we questioned our faith she either provided or found answers to explain the mysteries to us. She was a faithful wife and before I married talked to me about how important it was to be faithful and tolerant of my husband. Gramma showed by example how a good wife stands beside her husband. After many years of illness and losses I never heard her once question God. It was as it is to be she would say to us. I watched as she underwent dialysis, kidney failure and this woman stayed strong in her faith. My Gramma was my role model, mentor and best friend. I have missed her every day since 2-13 and will miss her til I see her again in heaven (if I make it).
So, My Grams was the person who showed me how to live my religion, and be a spiritual person at the same time.
Peace be with you.

Answer 6

Yes, when the preacher's wife told me my clothing was not acceptable in a place of worship..Up until that point I had thaught god loved and accepted everyone. When I figured out that I was being judged based on the way I dressed and people I was friends with, I quit going to church and started studyin other religions.

Answer 7

My grandmother's life and death. I loved her very deeply. She was a rock... Her first husband died in a coal mining accident which left her with 3 young children to feed, she married my grandfather. He was an alcoholic who was in and out of electroshock therapy. She waitressed 2 jobs to feed her 6 kids (including my dad) and never complained. Later, after my dad's brothers were grown, when I was a kid, she helped raise 2 of my cousins and held the rest of the family together with her warmth and love. She was a Sunday school teacher and went to church and was a devout woman as ever. Then in 1983 she had heart bypass surgery. The last bag of blood she recieved during her transfusion was contaminated with HIV. She died of AIDS complications five years later. After being a woman of faith all her life, and Choosing the Right, and facing whatever tests God gave her, he chose to kill her in that way... We weren't allowed to see her in the hospital, it was still a 'gay junkie disease'.

Answer 8

I consider myself spiritual not religious...one event was the loss of a brother, he was 16 I was 9. The pastor who performed the service told someone what a shame it was that my brother would spend eternity in hell because he had not accepted Jesus into his heart...I turned from religion..not God..if Jesus Christ walked this earth today he would have nothing to do with modern religion...do you know the atrocities committed by organized religions in the name of GOD?

Answer 9

For me it become a delicate awareness that attempting to mould my faith to in good shape my technological know-how wasn't working and become instead arising a annoying dichotomy in my innovations. i'm by using nature a variety of folk who gets a headache while human beings say and do illogical issues and faith become killing me. while i eventually de-compartmentalized my non secular component to my innovations and enable myself practice rational theory to it, it died very very nearly directly. the top of there being no God hit me like a stunning flash and that i felt loose for the 1st time. no longer freed from morals and values, yet loose from the yolk on my innovations. loose to objective to make the international extra perfect instead of assuming it gets worse as we mindset "Armageddon". loose to enable good judgment, rationality, and data be my instruction manual, no longer the story of a few adult adult males who knew this different guy who spoke to a vivid dude with a beard and he mentioned to worship him or bypass to hell. for people who ask, "what while you're incorrect?" i'd extremely be in hell than serve an ego maniacal despot tyrant who throws hissy fits and kills off civilizations as a consequence. that is plenty extra convenient to believe those are organic occurrences than the orders of an "All understanding, effective, and loving God." If the Bible quite is the interest of God, then extra advantageous than as quickly as he ordered the destruction of each guy, female, and little one who inhabited a land. We call that genocide on the instant. you already know, what the Palestinians would desire to do to the Jews and vice versa. If he have been a international chief he would be hung for war crimes. So, enable the non secular pray for my soul, i visit bypass on spreading reason and rationality to their infants until faith is wiped out and there is peace on the earth.

Answer 10

My birth