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What religion have you converted from?

I was raised a loose-Roman Catholic...

My parents never really talked about religion, and never took us to church.

Anyways, as a younger lad I was actually quite impressed with the whole idea of religion and such.

But, alas, childhood naivity wore off and I soon found myself asking too many questions.

There were just things I couldn't understand.

The entire, God is supposed to be just and fair...Yet so many terrible things happen for no reason. Sort of contradicts what they teach us.

Then of course, there were the legions of unanswered prayers. That didn't help build a case in religion's favour in my life either.

So, somewhere around Gr. 5 or Gr. 6 (even before I had realized I was gay) I had given up on religion and decided to basically be a realist and try to focus on whats around me and why it occurs, not what might be around us.

Although, I do like to consider myself somewhat well versed when it comes to the Bible, as it's nifty to point out things that "true Catholics" missed out that show a bit of their own naivity to their own religion.

The best moment of this ideal was during an arguement on same-sex marriage with a catholic teacher. When she got high and mighty about the Bible condemning homosexual relations, I retorted with the usual "What's your shirt made out of? Cause just a line from where it condemns homosexuals, it condemns where clothes of two fabrics." Her response: It doesn't say that. So I grabbed a bible and showed her.

What make it more sweet, is that she was one of the christian ethics teachers.


So, while I don't hold a personal faith for many various reasons...I think one thing that helps cement it, is how little most people actually know about the faith they've chosen to follow.
 
I was born in a Hindu faith....... and have looked in to other faiths i could not find the colour or the depth i was looking for. I have been to Indian and Nepal and i could feel it every living thing and when i came back i could see and feel the colour and vibration in every living thing....... I now follow Sai baba who tells us that all faith are important and they are all ways to god. That is how i have got a new lease in life.....
 
i was born and grw up roman catholic; but i've found a small faith community in which i now practice my (catholic) faith without all the politics of the bigger organized denoninations.
 
Born into the Protestant faith, not really raised that way though.
My family is basically "wedding&funeral-christians", in a lack of better words.
Turned Buddhist when i was 12. Turned pagan when i was 13. Switched onto Black Magic when i was 14. Got onto the White Magic train when i was 15. Went onto Shamanism when i was 16, got back into Buddhism when i was 17, went Wiccan when i was 18. (Still Shamanic Buddhist while i was Wiccan mind ye.)
Didn`t follow anything specific from 19-23, except some generalized philosophy from the ShamanicBuddhistWiccan thing.
Today, at 24, i follow Vajrayana Buddhism while practicing Shamanism, White Magic, Norse Asatru and some Folk/Roots Magic.

Gah.. I`m a complex lil' bugger.
 
I was a rather well devoted Roman Catholic as many irish people are up untill I actualy started to learn about the world.
I've been through a few stages of being curious about various belief systems. Mostly ones where there isn't any god/gods/grand powers/superior beings or general creator rolls, also mostly the less organised ones with no single leading body.

Right now I'm not part of anything spiritualy more complicated than me and fairly happy to remain that way.

Secular Humanism or Scientific Humanism looks attractive no?
It all makes sence and things can actualy be understood!

Failing that, I've not heard anything bad about Unitarian Universalism.
It looks like a pritty open mish mash of diffrent ideas and random thoughts.
Hard to make heads or tails of really and the over all beliefes seem to be based on the beliefes of the strongest willed in the area.

Still. I'm concerned about any religeion that's policys are dictated by a single indavidual or group of indaviduals, particularly if they are self elevted rather than colectivly electred by the whole group.

I also find it hard to accept any religeion that portrays life as a test with some reward to be given when it's over based on your performance.
It just cheapens life and takes the fun out of it.
How can you enjoy yourself if all life is, is a grand test to see if you are worthy or not of something greater?
 
from catholic, to Satanist. i disagree with everything in xtianity and i will never understand why gay/bi people will accept that religion. the whole "if god forgives theifs he'll forgive me for being not-straight" is just ridiculous

god hates homos/bi's period

Hail Satan!
 
I was raised a catholic but never "believed". The word "believe" as used by religions is an abberation. Nowadays I tend to follow the ideas of Michel Onfray

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Onfray

The problem with religion is it misuses the immortality awareness of men. If there is one thing you have to keep your hands of, it is this awareness. It is utterly immoral. Religion is par excellence the utter immorality.
 
bulge said:
The problem with religion is it misuses the immortality awareness of men. If there is one thing you have to keep your hands of, it is this awareness. It is utterly immoral. Religion is par excellence the utter immorality.
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If I seem sympathetic to religion in some of my posts it is because I am open-minded to how other people express themselves and besides that, in it all, there are things that I don't know and hence can learn from. But in the main I am entirely in accord with the view that nearly all religions of the Second Tier (my term) are too banal to survive the scandal of a bright, clear morning.

Speaking to the Thread-question: I began childhood in an LCA Lutheran church, fairly orthodox but open-minded. I suffered/enjoyed a childhood involved with thinking through various philosophical questions. At the time I thought that God was someone who, if He exists was at least as open-minded and patient as I was. So I knew no boundaries in what I thought about. I will explain in more detail --- put it in my JUB blog I guess.
Well, over the years I got myself involved in various Christian movements dating from my middle undergraduate years. Was I a victim of my own psychological crises or did I experience a momentary touch of the Most-High? That is the question as it now stands. How will things turn out for Me, the main character in the story of my life?? As it is now I have little in common with any Christian church partly because they have nothing to offer me. I think sitting in the Pews is a good way to strengthen a person's natural cowardice.
That's the last thing I need.
The other reason I have little to do with the Churches is that they bear false witness too much. This I would tack on the doors of the social-conservative churches. Churches like the UCC are commendably open to amending "traditional" truths.
For several years I have studied Philosophy and also have learned something about Other world-views, other religions, that is.
Recently I have discovered another "religion" that is far more useful to me.
For the last six months I have been a practicing Buddhist and each day I know more happiness, self-control and courage.
I understand things faster, seeing how details combine to delineate a living whole.
That also describes the insight/intellect I had when I was 16 and a very much too-philosophical teenager.
But I didn't know what it was back then.
For now I will just say that you can't really know what Buddhism is from a short description. Buddhism can ONLY be know by doing it, in other words, by practicing meditation (as a beginning). Get a good book about it. (Sakyong Mipham is an Americanized Tibetan and wrote one that I refer to a lot: Turning your Mind into an Ally.) Whatever you have heard about Buddhist belief is really irrelevant. The practice, not the beliefs, is what is primary. If you see Reality differently, that's no problem. But by meditating (the way they say; they know what they're talking about), you free your mind from TMB. (America's #1 disease: Too Much Bullshit.)
 
Brought up United Methodist, I converted to Roman Catholicism because of the well-known "bells and smells syndrome." I finally found peace and self-worth in atheism. I'll die an unbeliever.
 
I was dragged up as a Catholic, but no one could satisfactorily answer my questions. If I persisted to question at school I would get beaten. It was insisted on that we go to confession on a scheduled basis. Monks were laid on to indoctrinate us. So I am now a practising Agnostic because I never got the answers and so therefore don't know what to belive.
 
i still keep to my faith, Islam... to be exact, a Sunnii Muslim.
 
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