How long have you been a Christian, Atheist, Pagan, Wiccan, Santerian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Agnostic,?

Question

Heretic, or any other that I may have not mentioned?

I have been a Christian for 20 years. My power of being a pagan comes from my dreams.......in which I have been having dreams for 20 years.

Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.

I am 28 years old, going on 29 in a few months.

Answer 1

I have been an Atheist since the age of 9, I am now 37.

Answer 2

I have been an athiest since I was 9 years old (no joke)....I come from a really devout roman catholic family (polish and german immigrants all the way through), and when I was 9 years old, my grandfather, the family member who I was closest to died of cancer.....at the funeral, the priest was talking about "god's will" and "this is the way that god wanted this to happen"...the thing was, my grandfather had been battleing with cancer for at least 3 years, and it was probably the most horrible sight I had ever seen (colostomy bags, enough said), and listening to the priest talk about this benevolent god and his divine plan, after my mother explained the whole mutant cell thing that causes cancer, I really saw a loophole there....not that I really ever bought into the whole christianity thing (even as a small child, I just couldn't get into it, I needed proof, which I never got)...but that just cemented the whole thing....not to go into my life story or anything, but yeah, I'm going on 13 years come next week......but hell, whatever's right for you, because in the long run, it's your subjective viewpoint that matters the most, as that is the world that belongs to you and only you

Answer 3

Christian 9 years

Answer 4

A skeptical atheist for close to 50 years.
I have studied quite a few different religions/faiths trying to understand them over the years. I have found none that stand up to reason. I do recognise the value of them as social institutions for community identity and/or control though.
People often define themselves by common beliefs when they are denied other methods of doing so like place or race. Note the how the recent rise in US identity as a Christian Nation has matched their loss of identity by ethnicity, place or race under the effects of Globalisation. Note that they have also embraced a desparately American form of Christianity.

So sorry to run on like that. It is very early early morning here and the extremely strong morning coffee just kicked in.

Answer 5

I've been an atheist for 30 years. I was born into a Catholic family and became an atheist at 12 years of age. In order for my parents to accept my decision I mounted a logical, philosophically and theologically founded argument at the dinner table on evening with an Archbishop Emeritus and a Monsigneur who was an adviser to the Vatican Coongregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.

Answer 6

I became agnostic when I started realizing that every religion had a different story, and they all seemed equally outrageous, and yet everyone seemed to believe them. I was raised christian, but I started noticing that I had feelings of great doubt as to why people were so convinced that God was the one and true God out there. So I came to the conclusion that know one can really know what controls the universe, and that basically people create certain religions so that they have some way to explain what happens after death, and to give them a sense of purpose in their lives.

Answer 7

Let's see, when I was a child of about 8 influenced by my parents and my church I accepted Jesus into my heart, when I was oh, I don't know 14 or 15, I said Jesus get the **** out of my heart and I've been undefined ever since, perhaps agnostic then, so about 10 years. I wouldn't call myself very spiritual, as I don't believe I have a soul, but I wouldn't consider myself atheist either.

Answer 8

Atheist - I first recognized what a crock religious belief was when I was 5. Before that I had no belief anyway. So I'd say all my life, but consciously for 37 years.


NBK, Buddhism is arguably an atheist religion. But Stripes may have a better answer.

Answer 9

I'm 30 now and was raised a Jew, but for the past seven years I've considered myself more an Eclectic Pagan.

Answer 10

Happily Wiccan for over 20 years.

5 years before that I called myself "Generic Christain".

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