Did something happen to make you decide to be religious, Agnostic, Atheist, or something other than what you were?
2007-12-23 01:22:10 · 13 answers · asked by Incognito 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not long ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I was on my death bed for almost a year. I have been recovering ever since. I have felt like I have stared death in the face and came out alive.
Because of this I feel like I have stared God in the face and been able to ask some serious questions reguarding life and death, health and sickness, faith and the lack there of.
I have asked God some some of the big questions like how can you let bad things happen to good people.
The most important result of my experience is I find myslef praying for other people all the time.
The worst that could have happened to me did. There is nothing that can be done for me. So each day my prayers go out for all the sick, poor, and disenfranchised of the world.
2007-12-23 14:46:35 · answer #1 · answered by DonPedro 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't enlightenment, but being forced to say ,'What?' on various occasions.
The first was when a Jewish woman said that she wouldn't like a black to buy a house on her road, because it would devalue her house. Having heard about the Holocaust, I found it difficult to understand how a Jewess, whose people had suffered so much from racism, could be racist.
Having been brought up in a Christian household and having studied the sayings of Jesus, I came to the conclusion that Jesus was a left-wing agitator. My father (an Anglican priest), when I was in my late 30s, said I was a Communist. I replied, 'No, I'm not, but I am a socialist and who was the first socialist?' He knew what I meant, but he refrained from answering. I studied Islam at university and I read the Qur'an.
Christianity and Islam have had many things added over the years. Many things which do not reflect the teachings of Jesus or Mohammed.
Personally, I still respect Christian ideals and festivals, but I lean towards the Alevites. Their religion has it's basis in the Shia division from the Sunni Muslims, but I feel at home with them. AND I am accepted.
2007-12-23 09:53:02 · answer #2 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I have always been religious. But what changed my beliefs and helped me to better understand who I am and who God truly is, was hitting bottom. I had to lose everything in life to find out who I am. Now I have a far more spiritual and personal relationship with my Creator.
2007-12-23 12:46:12 · answer #3 · answered by plastik punk -Bottom Contributor 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I used to be superstitious like about the number 13 being bad luck until I scored 99% on a Kelly girl test years ago and got first dibs on all jobs years ago. The interview and test day was on a Friday the 13th. Needless to say, I've never been superstitious since!
2007-12-23 09:26:43 · answer #4 · answered by itsme 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes, my children were born. My mom died when I was 9 years old, and she was a practicing Catholic and of course raising me that way. When she died, I was so bitter, I stayed away from church. After I had my children, I seen how they made me feel and I wanted to raise them with the ability to know Christianity, so I started taking them to a small Baptist church. It did turn my life around. When the kids were old enough, I never MADE them go, I gave them a choice, they choose to go. I don't believe in religion as I think getting to wrapped up in the politics of religion will get you off track, I believe in the Bible and what it says.
2007-12-23 09:31:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I called myself atheist. Then, one night during the worst point of - anyone's life-- I was planning to kill myself. And something woke up my children, and had them come to me and say -- "Don't leave us, Mom-- we can stand to lose everything, but not you-- don't leave us." and even though my plans would have resulted in their material wealth; and the end of my horrible pain -- I stayed. That was over a decade ago-- and that pain abated, and others came.. but so did other joy. So I went on a hunt for Truth. The bottom line is-- there is no loss of energy in the Universe-- it just shifts. "We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a physical experience" -- Death is only a door. Watch movie/ read book "What the Bleep Do We know"-- Read book -- Angels On Assignment -- good book.
2007-12-23 09:34:29 · answer #6 · answered by Red 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm not religious. I have a relationship with Jesus. I am leery of "organized religion". Too much has happened to explain here, but I have been blessed too well to have any doubt about where these blessings are coming from.
2007-12-23 09:30:57 · answer #7 · answered by RT 66 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
when I was young I used to believe in god and heaven and hell. then I grew up and it didn't make any sense to me.... I was confused. then my mom died, a horrible painful death. the nicest most loving woman I know... then my dear fiance who was 32 died... my friends little 6 yr old boy died after that of leukemia. a yr. later my friend who was 28 died in a motorcycle accident. He had a baby on the way. ALL of them didn't deserve to die. there was no reason behind it. that is all a bunch of BS!! after all of this... I don't believe there is a God... and if i'm wrong, then he isn't very nice! not something i'd want to worship anyway!
2007-12-23 09:29:16 · answer #8 · answered by gretch 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I was born and raised LDS. When I finally went to the Temple, I about keeled over laughing and from there on, I knew to trust my own knowledge and logic.
2007-12-23 21:44:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My religion teacher, a RCC priest. He stayed on because he did not know where to go. They had taken all his money from him, his salary of 30 years. He did not have a penny. He was afraid I was thinking of becoming a priest. He warned me.
2007-12-23 09:32:03 · answer #10 · answered by kwistenbiebel 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋