When did you convert to your religion(if you have one)?

Post Reply New Topic

I have been a Christain for 2 years now.If you do have a religion,when did you convert to it?


-SpaceCase

I didn't convert; I've always been a Jehovah's Witness

I grew up in a Christian home, but I made the decision that I was going to be a Christian, not because my parents were but because I wanted to be, when I was 16. that was 7 years ago now.

I made the decision to renounce Catholicism and all other mainstream religions last year.

I renounced Pentecostalism in 2000, when I was 18. I haven't been back since. I don't have a religion now.

...I'm still annoyed with my father for making me go to church.

I stopped being a christian in 1985 the day a speaker came to my church and started trying to preach the 6000 year old earth and old chesnuts like the Fossil hat.

Peple actually BELIVED that stuff! : /

Was a Pagan for a few years, now I mostly worship coffee.......

I was raised in a Baptist church, it was down the street where I lived, they'd show up in a bus and away we'd go. They had a child molester there who taught sunday school, I never told anyone what he did to me untill I was 18, I had left the church years ago, and when I rededicated my life back to Jesus I ended up in a Charasmatic church (Pentecostal without the label)My Pastor told me I should tell. I did...but nothing was done untill the guy was arrested. Back then not much was done. Anyways I wasn't angry at their Pastor for not doing anything 'cause after all who was I? I didn't go there when he was there.But this guy did this type of stuff before I ever went there, but the board of directors that was there then, they were the ones who continued to let him teach, and when the church got taken over by a different church, they were all fired. So why am I a Christian now? No way will I allow some child molester take my relationship with my Lord away. God will deal with him, I am accountable for myself. I rededicated myself at the tell end of the Jesus movement, I saw Christian rock bands and people actually having fun in church, I was a little druggie back then, and what God had to offer was so much better. A peace that made no sense to anyone, I actually got. To have the Creator of heaven and earth be my best friend? Well how lucky is that. So I'm still a Christian at 44, not accepted by many, but hey....look who my best friend is.

I converted to atheism when I was born.

You were lucky, most of us have to go the long way around.

I was Catholic until 12. *shudders and bathes himself* Ugh! I can't stand Catholicism, and I'm glad to be out! 10 shampoo bottles and a bar of soapy righteousness couldn't make me go back to being Catholic. I'm Christian now, and it's different. Oh, it's very different. Go God, etc.

I really hate to go up to bat for the Jesus Force, but in this case I just have to......

Catholics ARE Christians too. I'm guessing you are now some form of Baptist?

Usually they are the ones to go around disenfranchising Catholics.......

All followers of Christ are Christians, not just your denomination.......

I was born to parents who were non-attending protestants. They started taking me to church on an occasional basis when I was 7. After my parents split up when I was 9 my mother decided I needed religion and started taking me to "Sunday school" and sending me to church-sponsored summer camps. I took the Bible stories pretty much literally until I realized they didn't make any sense, and lost my religion almost over-night. I started avoiding church when I was 13, and declared myself athiest when I was 15. By the time I was 18 I was more accurately described as agnostic, in the sense that my life is 100% secular and I think of atheism as being just another religious belief. I want a separation of church and state not because I believe God doesn't exist but because I don't want to be ruled by crazy people who have an opinion either way.

A comon misconception of atheism is that it is "a belief that god does not exist"

All it is is a lack of religious belief, no faith required. In fact, that god belief is undefied to the point of being incoherent. If one cannnont say what god IS, to say one believes or disbelieves in it is meaningless.

If atheism is a religion then bald is a hair color.

was baptised a Catholic, was a committed Catholic until i was 31, then realised i was a witch (literally - was reading a book about what witches are about, and i did all of it, more or less). didn't change anything about my lifestyle, except i stopped going to church. no epiphany, no road to damascus, just a realisation that i'd been using the wrong label all my life. bit like me and AS, really.

Catholics have a pope...and confession booths...and other things that the Bible doesn't support or suggest. That, and they even have a different Bible. Added books, etc. The fact that a few of their practises are clearly against biblical principle catagorizes them as not Christian in my mind. Not only that, I knew next to nothing about Jesus when I was Catholic. All I knew was a bunch of rituals that did nothing for me on any sort of spiritual level. To put it simply, I wasn't worshipping Christ; which is what Christians worship (well, and the rest of the trinity).

BTW, nice job on guessing that I'm a Baptist. Don't know if I'll keep assoicating myself with them though, some of my believes are a bit different.

Wow, a lot 'converted to atheism' type posts on here...

I personally was raised in a household of apathetic spirituality (I would say that my father is atheist, while my mother is agnostic), became interested in Taoism and later Christianity when I was about 15, gave up on religion altogether later on in the 9th grade, then ended up dabbling in existentialism and just a wee little bit of the occult late in high school. I gave up on those last two things because I found them too dreary and negative, so now I don't know what the hell I am. If I had to label myself something, I would say it is agnostic

Kind of a bumpy road, huh?