How many religions did you try before you converted to now?

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I tried:

Atheism
Wicca
Christianity


I am now a Buddhist.


-SpaceCase

Was never really a Christian.. too many plotholes in the book.
Investigated many others but the clear choice for me was Buddhism/Taoism.

From an early age I didn't believe in a "god". Been an atheist my entire life.

Never really converted to any religion because I prefer to be freelance about my beliefs.

Hmmn..

Researched them all..

I'll just call myself a post-nihilist now

I went to Sunday School as a very young child, and remember thinking even back then that God was a load of horse hockey. I converted to athiest.

When I was in middle school and early high school, I "converted" to "Satanism". Only I didn't practice anything or believe anything, I just did it because I thought it would weird people out. All it did was make it look like I wanted attention.

After Satanism, I swung to agnosticism for a while. I don't recall exactly why. It's just that right now I'm completely convinced there is no God and it's a stupid concept, and I wasn't so convinced back then.

I jumped around from denomination to denomination of Christianity. I was Non-Denominational when I was young, then about a year ago, I was Southern Baptist. Lately, I've been hanging around the Pentecostal community, though I don't consiuder myself to be Pentecostal. I'm more spiritual than religious because I feel like organized religion destroys. While I do believe in God, I make my own decisions on what's right and wrong, and I realize that the Bible we have now might not be the original one. After all, it's been edited to Hell and back (Pun may or may not been intended. Talk to your doctor or pastor and see if this pun is right for you.) by various church denominations, the Church of England being the first, and what better way to control the people to your will than to edit, add, and delete things from the Lord's Word?

So yeah, while I am spiritual, I do think for myself. I'm not at all religious, though I still believe in God.

None, really - though I was a Prod at school. I'm now a proper little atheist.

I was relgious as a kid before i learned to think for myself.
Til about 4 i was a catholic.
From 4 to 9 i was a jehova's witness.
From 9-22 i do not believe there is such a thing as a god.

I was born Presbyterian and raised Baptist (southern Baptist too.) I have a major problem with most organized religion. They use fear to control and force their beliefs. Many of the southern Baptist are such hypocrites anyway. I’ve also been exposed to Catholicism as my step father’s family is catholic. Recently I’ve been introduced to Vedanta which is more of a spiritual religion which I find to be more to how I feel. Now I do still consider myself a Christian as I do believe something significant happened over 2000 years ago. After all, we base time on it. I do believe there is a higher intelligence, but it’s not how the Bible presents it. The Bible present is in organized religions view. So you could say that I’m some new age mix with Vedanta.

-Scott

I suppose I was a Roman Catholic, in my early life. I didn't really follow the beliefs, though; it was more like, I did what I was told for fear of punishment. When my mother loosened the bindings and let me explore on my own, I hopped back and forth between a bunch of denominations. Over the past few years, I came to the conclusion that the Jesus of Nazareth people know of today must have been a grand hoax, and thought about converting to Judaism. That, too, felt much too fake, and was full of holes and inconsitencies. Then I checked out Buddhism, didn't think I'd learned anything, and spent a while as an atheist. But my belief in a God is too strong, so here I am now.

My belief has no name; I haven't come up with one yet. I recognize the great men of the world as what they are: men, like everyone else, who rose up to do extraordinary things. I believe in magic and the power of the mind, the force of will, and an everlasting soul. I believe in punishment in the afterlife for the wicked, but a temporary punishment to absolve sin. And I believe God, as an entity, created mankind and the universe to give itself form; God creates man, and man creates God. Once all beings in the universe hold the same image of him/her/it, he or she will become whole, and the universe will end. Or something like that. I'm still not sure about everything, bhut this works for now.

I think atheism is a negative connotation however for simply not being christian.

Maybe its just me that sees it this way.

Anyway..

Agnosticism I find interesting, because the unknowable, the infinate, is by definition unknowable and therefore if it was within our grasp it would be simply another object in existence.

Anyway...

It gets a bit ridiculous for me, because in the end I would be called:

Agnostic, Pantheist, Realist, Post-Nihilist..

(the list goes on and on)

Yes I kinda made up the last one, but who says I can't

I meditate and enjoy the philosophical religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism..

God is open for interpretation so I do not label myself with any

I was born a werbertist, raised a werbertist, and when I die, I'll go to werbert heaven.

Was a "Christian" when I was younger, although I always had problems with it. I've been an Atheist ever since I really knew what the word meant, much to the dismay of my fundamentalist/Southern Baptist family.

Although, I'm a little confused by this topic. It's not as if one can simply "choose" one belief over another. Belief is not something you can choose to have. You have it, or you don't. I couldn't choose to be a Christian any more than I chose to be an Atheist. I simply am.

/nitpick.

Philosophy is one of my AS obsessions.

I might have been a Christian when I was young, but I certainly had my doubts

I went to atheism when I was in high school

Now I am agnostic with some minor flirtations with Buddhism in between