how many people are brave enough to admit they are wrong...?

Question

it seems as though whatever rleigion u were born into, are intially started off with, is automatically correct. if ure born chirstian, then praise jesus, cause thats definately the right rleigion. if ure born muslim the praise allllah. has anyone hear ever had the guts to investigate thier religion and decide this religion cannot be the right one, and choose a different one.

p.s. if u only did this for example, like if ure jewish and hated all the laws so u become atheist , that doesnt count, most cases the person only did that cause its eaiser

yeah ok, u left christainty, but then did u think let me see the other religions and study them in depth, or just be like , coool ill be an atheist and live however i wnat

***His Divine Shadow- actually i am not christina, i was just saying. if ONE is born christian then they would likely say my rleigion is the best and praise jesus, and if one was born muslim they would automatically claim alllah was the almighty. i would love to hear ure intelligent response. and if someone focuses on my POOR grammar and spelling, then go ahead, call me a moron.

***eric**- "You are not born with any religion" i am sorry but u are wrong. do ure research

IMPORTANT-- remember, there are always at least 2 sides to every story. i can go on a certain website where they bring fact after fact proving all our anscestors were aliens. anyone can make up facts , or anyone can take them out of context. If you only go on a christian website talking about how ba other religions are then of course you are going to see the other religions as false. you have to do objective research

Answer 1

A lot of people convert later in life - and it's not because it was easier. I was raised Christian. I converted -- not because it was easier, but because the religion is wrong, there are too many holes, too many unanswered questions, and not enough proof for me to prove Christianity has any validity whatsoever. I'm now a pantheistic pagan. Not because it's easier. But rather because I believe it's right - for me. And my conversion didn't come lightly either. It was after a great deal of study, research, and scrutiny that I came to my current belief system.

Answer 2

You know I did, I was born into a family with a strong Christian background, southern baptist to be specific, and as I got older and more active in the church I started to ask alot of questions. Some of these Questions got pretty straight answers and others required more explaining until it boiled down to I don't have the answer for you. So like a good christian I looked to the bible. There I found a lot of different versions and translations which leave a lot to interpritation and conjecture. why there are Southern baptist who meet Lutherans who meet Catholics meets... and so on.
As I truly started to get into the Meat of the phylosophical "interpritations" I started to look at what other people who claimed to be christians were doing and found a lot of room for "interpritation" aka hipocracy.
This is where I really decided to take a step back and look at the situation. Exactly the way the "Asker" phrased it. What did I admire about the people I was currently seeing as good Christians and started looking at what made them good people and compared that to other religions. What I found was a fairly universal theme.
That we are all connected. We, as a society, have defined parameters to what we consider morally right and morally wrong and the good people simply try to live by what they think are wrights and wrongs. In that respect all religions and phylosophies are pretty much equal and ballanced. No one Idea or God or any combination said anything that couldn't be guessed at. I sat down and started to think as objectivly as I could about what I belived. Some basic question that all in this situation do. Why are we here? who made the 'Rules' that govern our lives, behavior, societies? Are the "rules" put there to keep good people safe or sub-servient, and are we really basically good or basically bad?
On the last one, I decided good. Because instinct that your born with tells you to save the lives of others if you can. How many stories can you think of off the top of your head when you hear about average citizens risking their lives for people they don't know.
Then I thought what about truly bad people, are they born or made? My conclution is bad. Killers sometimes have no reasoning or underlieing behavioral problem they simply want what they don't have.
Both? that means we are neither all good or all bad. so we must all be both. On the presumption I further sumised that the rules as such must be in place to keep you from hurting your self and others by learning from the past and simple reason.
Experience speaks volumes but just because it was good for the father doesn't mean it will be right for the son. If nothing else we are individuals and being so we all make decisions about what we do and where our lives take us. Metaphorically we are all tributaries of a large and powerful river but all rivers flow to the ocean. My point being while some of us may travel over the lava of hawaii and some might end up alcoholics begging for change in Union station, we all make up the ocean that is humanity, that is society. Be you a Hindu rain drop or a Tribal Nigerian, you fall to the earth and eventually join the Ocean.
I was born a falling Southern Baptist but landed in an agnostic stream only to be swallowed up by a Bhuddist Creek. I've looked in alot of places and talked to alot of people. We're all moving in the same Direction. Some of us slowly like water frozen in a glacier or swiftly falling over the falls. I found the teachings of Bhudda to comfort me and shed light on alot of questions christianity left dark.
Whither or not this is your stream of thought it doesn't matter. Be as brave as the reader and stand up to those that authoritate your life and ask them why. If they can't tell you be brave and find it. I did

Answer 3

I agree that children are raised to believe that whatever religion their parents are is the right religion to be a part of. However, later in life, the kids might change their mind and maybe they do convert. I personally was raised non-denominational, was forced to go to church for about 4 years and that in turn, made me very anti-religion. I wouldn't go so far as to say I went Athiest, but I was darn close. About 8 months ago, I started going to church with my fiance, and am now in the process of 'converting' to that religion. Not because it's easier, but it is one of the best decisions I've made so far! I feel like I've finally found what I've been missing in my life.

Everyone has their own beliefs and feelings on religion though. That's what makes the world work.

Answer 4

I don't know how wrong "I" actually was, because I never believed in it in the first place, but I was indoctrinated into christianity from birth (those jerks even tried to drown me!)
My whole life I thought something was wrong with me because I didn't buy into the whole idea they were selling, so I tired to find others who questioned christianity also. that led me to Hinduism (which is fun, but there are wayyyy to many gods to memorize), Judaism - which I have to say made the most sense - but I still really couldn't buy into that invisble guy in the sky thing.... and after much searching I gave up. I called myself agnostic at first so I wouldn't piss off my Mom, but came to the realization that I am a true atheist. I just don't believe in any supreme being whatsoever. and by the way, the true definition of "Faith" is:
–noun
1. confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability.
2. belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact.
3. belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion: the firm faith of the Pilgrims.
4. belief in anything, as a code of ethics, standards of merit, etc.: to be of the same faith with someone concerning honesty.
5. a system of religious belief: the Christian faith; the Jewish faith.
6. the obligation of loyalty or fidelity to a person, promise, engagement, etc.: Failure to appear would be breaking faith.
7. the observance of this obligation; fidelity to one's promise, oath, allegiance, etc.: He was the only one who proved his faith during our recent troubles.

Answer 5

I was actually preparing a really intelligent answer to your question, but after re-reading what you have written, all I have to say is that you are a moron. Sorry, but saying that Christianity is the right religion, but then asking Muslims to second guess their beliefs is just plain arrogant. Why don't YOU question your Christian beliefs while you are at it? You can't have it both ways, kid!

Answer 6

I am no longer Christian. I've researched many religions and have read most of the great works out there. Right now I consider myself Pagan, but not Wiccan. I go to a Unitarian Universalist church and incorporate many ideas into my beliefs. I consider myself very spiritual, but not religious.

Answer 7

You left out the ones that were born and raised with NO religion, researched them all and then made a choice. There are plenty of us out there too! (Although I don't really know if I chose Christianity as much as God chose me...)

Answer 8

I was wrong back when I was a Christian. It turns out there is no god.

I've been wrong about other things since then. In college I believed that genetics had practically no influence on our psychological makeup or our cognitive abilities or attitudes. I was dead wrong - we've since discovered that there are strong genetic influences on those things.

I used to think that truth was relative - that there was no absolute truth. I was dead wrong about that as well. I also used to think that there were no absolute morals, but I was dead wrong about that too.

I've turned out to have been wrong about quite a few things. I'm proud that I'm able to change my mind when new evidence comes in, or when a flaw in my reasoning becomes apparently.

Answer 9

I have. i really wanted to think there is some all powerful, all loving being looking over us making sure everything is ok. This, of course, would produce an entirely different universe than the one we live in.

Answer 10

I did, I was raised a christain and became an Atheist, and I did not do it because it was 'eaiser' (nice spelling, by the way) I did it because I believe all religions are a lie made by man.