How have your religeous beliefs changed over your lifetime?

Answer 1

O my! Yes!
I was born into a Christian/Catholic family and was baptized Catholic immediately. I stayed in the Catholic Church thru confirmation and then was set free by my parents to do my own thing. My thing was to leave the church - forever.
Later in life, I practiced the culture of Judaism without converting or observing it religiously.
Later, I practiced Buddhist religion for about a year - but found it tedious and routine, (and like the Catholic church) to be filled with promises and not much else.
A few years ago I dabbled in Deism - but it quickly turned to a strong urge to be atheist.
I consider myself atheist now, and finally I feel like I'm at home.

Answer 2

My beliefs have become a lot more open. I was raised in a very religious household, and was taught that my religion was the only correct one. But when I hit my teens, I started asking a lot of questions and doing research. I'm still religious, but I feel that there is validity in religious perspectives aside from my own, and I've also learned a lot from people who don't have any religious beliefs at all. The older I get, the more I find myself opening up to other viewpoints and learning from them. I'm willing to examine beliefs and philosophies other than my own.

Answer 3

I was raised to go to church.
I saw through the limitations and hypocrisy of "social" Christianity as a teenager.
I spent later teenage years considering: I was impressed by several books and movements including "The Bermuda Triangle" and Von Daniken's "Chariots of the Gods", until I realised how much data can be manipulated and how much can simply be false in books and presentations.
Challlenged at university that what I had rejected earlier wasn't "real" Christianity, I re-considered a Christianity that claimed to be more bible-based. Over the course of months I was convinced, and became a Christian.
About twelve years later, by now teaching bible study and evangelism, and training bible study leaders,. my own study of the bible, of Christian theology and its history, as well as that of the Christian church reluctantly caused me to conclude that Christianity was not, at core, what it claimed to be.
Over the course of three years of considering alternatives I concluded that the only thing I could be without lying to myself was an atheist.
And so I remain.

Answer 4

I was raised non-theist without much concern about the existence of God. In college, I went to a Christian church for a year. From there to deist, pantheist, agnostic, then atheist.

Answer 5

yes, i was raised christian... didn't like the hatred i heard... now because of an awakening (self-realization), i am spiritual, and very much believe in a loving god...

Answer 6

i spent time in a cult full of lies and then back to the truth which is Methodism.

Answer 7

I wouldn't say they have changed....just grown.

Answer 8

Was christian, now Wiccan

Answer 9

Yes...

Was mormon now Wiccan.