what made you change?

Question

What made you believe in something different or stop believing in anything at all

Answer 1

As a child I was an Atheist. I believed purely in science and saw no place for the spiritual. As a teenager I started to see and want more than cold logic and rationality could explain or offer. I became a Christian because it was the first thing that really spoke to me (not that I had studied much). As I grew older though, I started to see all these things that as a Christian, I had been lied to about.

That is when I began soul-searching and I discovered paganism. I realized when I started studying it, that part of me had been pagan all of my life, and that was why I was constantly searching. I have been studying paganism and have been Wiccan for over ten years.

I am very happy.

Answer 2

After years of being forced into catholicism and hating it, we finally moved away and the nearest catholic church was over an hour away, so we stopped going. Once given the choice, I realized how absurd the things the church was saying and doing really were and I resisted all efforts to coerce me back into religion, the only scrap of what could be called religion that I have left is Buddhism, this by technicality allows me to stay in boy scouts and all other organizations that require a religion, without compromising my own principles. My beliefs so far are that the existence of god is very unlikely, but not impossible which technically makes me a borderline atheist/agnostic depending on how hostile I am feeling towards the idea of the existence of god on any particular day. I believe in evolution, but I am not so committed to it that I would stick with it should it be scientifically and irrefutably disproved and I believe that there is no such thing as the supernatural, only natural occurrences that we are currently unable to understand.
Also, anybody that wants to try to dispute my beliefs please keep in mind that I will use the same tactic that you use on anybody that confronts you, at least if your smart. I will simply ignore you, your not worth my time nor my attention so don't even try. I can use logic rather then faith to refute arguments.
Also, I am not close-minded, I have just heard it all before.

All hail the FSM

(today I'm feeling hostile)

Answer 3

When life started to spin out of control for me(grandparents dying, husband diagnosed with cancer, sick children, adjusting to a new home and location, insomnia and depression, etc.) I knew I had to find an immovable Rock to cling to, stand on, believe in. Even tho my situations did not change - I found an extreme hope, peace and faith in God. The Bible became my food and was nourishment to my soul - and Jesus Christ was and continues to be my beloved Friend and Saviour.

Answer 4

Well, I don't really think I changed.

I don't remember hearing anything at all about religion, or even thinking about it, before an incident, that I've since figured out happened when I was four or five (because of where I lived then).

A neighbor girl had a bunch of us littles behind the bushes at my house, and was giving us the "Heaven/Hell/God is watching" thing. I remember thinking to myself "This girl's stupid." I told my mother about it, and she said "She belongs to a group that believes in a religion called Christianity." I asked if we belonged to the group, and my mom said "No, your father used to, and I'm Jewish."

As a child, I never really got it straight what it all meant - just that these people believed these things strongly, that it seemed nuts, and that by and large they were in control so I better shut up and not argue.

Years later my mother and grandmother took me to a Jewish synagogue. Like all kids, I fidgeted during services. My grandmother took me outside and said "Look, I don't believe in this stuff either. But it's part of our people's culture, and you better show some respect or I'll spank you. Besides, it's important to your mother." She took me back inside.

Afterwards. my mother took me aside and said, "Look, I don't believe in this stuff either. But it's part of our people's culture, and you better show some respect or I'll spank you. Besides, it's important to your grandmother."

I can't really say I "changed" into an atheist - it seems to me that I always was one, and never received any effective pressure as a child to change. As an adult, I was too educated and self-confident to be able to be forced into changing.

Answer 5

i went from being a total baptist fanatic to an agnostic pagan.
what made me change?
realizing, it is all perspective, that religion is a great con game, that the bible is not literally the "word of god" unless you are one of those who believe that we are all sparks of "god" then in that case...
so now, i believe what feels right at the time, i'm not afraid to open my mind, listen to different points of view, and change my own when they don't suit me anymore. and i'm so much happier now. my life has never been more fun, precious, and absolutely wonderful because it is my responsibility i can choose what i want to be, do, think, experiance w/out fear of some control freak of a god sending me to hell because i think differently than him.

Answer 6

I stopped believing in religion when I started reading the Bible to understand it instead of blindly following

I began to believe in magic when I met this certain person..

Answer 7

I think it was second grade.
Studying American Indians
teacher said that Indians had different gods for different things.
Said we know that is silly because GOD takes care of everything.
I learned that there are different beliefs and began to pay attention.
After many years I'm sure there are no believable gods.

Answer 8

I believe in God because I use to feel so lost and empty. When I asked God in my heart I now know that he is with me. He is always there and I dont know about all Christians but I know for myself that we have had some big problems in our lives and I have asked if God was here or not and just in time he reassures me. God never said that we cant ask him questions... we ask our parents questions and he is the same but we should be respectful.

Answer 9

I stopped believing in faith based supernatural nonsense once I realized that logic and reason were much more satisfying and rewarding ways of thinking. Probably around eight years of age.

Answer 10

I had an experience that did not show me heaven or hell or an angle or anything like that. What it did do was show me that without a doubt their was more to this reality than just what we can see and touch.