Why did you Change your Beliefs?

Here's a curious question...WHAT WERE YOU RAISED AS

How many people have once been Christians or other and changed their Beliefs or views and why?

What were you, and why were you that....And why the change....

And what would it take to change your belief?

And is change good?

I was a Christan, but now I am a Buddhist. This change was, for me, the best thing I could do in my life. The type of Christianity I was raised with was based on suffering for Jesus and that he would return by the year 2000. This was for me, as a child, a stone around my neck. We were supposed to be separate from everyone else. The women were not to speak in church and covered their heads. The men were to be preachers if they could. What this did to people was as close to evil as I have ever seen.

I was raised atheist and made a choice to follow Jesus by doing the will of the father in heaven. The Holy Scriptures and the Living Christ has always been there for me when the world got me down. Praise the Lord!

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here is my religious background:

I was raised nothing... my family was not of any religion, if I have to be something then theoretically I was catholic I think... I was baptized, and such. Then my mother joined spiritism, and I became spiritist too... you know I was just a child and particularly was not interested in religion at that time, then I joined(voluntarily this time) another religious activity called "I Am Activity" which is about ascended masters like Saint Germain, Jesus, Maytreya, Kuthumi, etc... this religion has elements of hinduism, christianism maybe, theosophy, kardecism, buddhism and many other religions of ancient cultures like Egypt and Persia, but it was cool, not contradictory, not stupid... but I quit because people from there was too faithful, when you think too much you find contradictions, and elements which should be discussed, but as in any religion they don´t discuss these elements, they just have faith, and if you think of something that make sense but its against their faith then you should forget it, as if it was not valid.. so I quited... now I´m nothing... I prefer to watch things from outside... I specially like hinduism, and theosophy which actually is not a religion.

I was raised Christian, and now I'm something that I'm not sure of. I sort of believe that all gods have existed and that they are really just manifestations of our imagination. So in short, I sort of believe in all gods and no gods.

Yes, I can be somewhat confusing.

was raised a christian, had christianity as a mandatory subject each day for nine years in school. Started to look behind the christianity and biblical stuff and just saw how , to me , ridiculous the entire stuff was, or in other words I grew up

Well I was Baptised Catholic, though it was kept secret from me when my dad married my stepmother who was Pentecostal...So I heard many fire and brimstone sermons...I grew up with the "Demons are everywhere" stuff and also doing things to you and people are being possessed and even attended services where they had supposedly casted one out....OH..and I was accused of being possessed along with my father and his work partner.... Freaky Stuff!..cause they said that if you weren't a strong Christian, it would jump into you...or in your house....and I slept in a basement room.......EEEKK!...They had a big barrel that you stood in line for to drop in money into to get a healing...You weren't allowed to have images or even tattooed images of god on you....funny thing was my dad being raised Catholic had a huge crucified Christ on is forearm...which at one point was told he should get it removed or even cut it off....WOW...He didn't though....Later I attended many different types of churches and saw the discrepancies of the doctrines, so I started to study them all...This is truly not allowed to do so, but did it anyway...then I read even more things with science and history trying to make sense of things....so, now I'm a heretic....Very Special...indeed...

I try not to have any belifes.I just go with the flow of things and don't conform to any one way.Sometimes I feel Gnostic and other times Pagan and other times Buhddist.I just can't stay with one teaching though.I have to stay a free spirit.

Skepticism, critical thinking, logic and reason made me reject the religion I was raised in.

I grew up a christian and still are but are thankful that while I was very young my father left the Pentecostal church because there was too much politics and interpretations of the scriptures. He read the Bible to us until we were old enough to read ourselves and taught us the teachings of Jesus when we came together for in the evenings. I am thankful that I was spared the ridiculous fight amongst denominations and the twisting of the Bible. He taught us that you can serve and worship God in the privacy of your own home too and grow spiritually. We did attend a few services hear and there were I witnessed several miracles including a personal experience. I changed my religion for a lifestyle and changed my view of having to belong to a specific church because the kingdom of God is not a church.

He read the Bible to us until we were old enough to read ourselves and taught us the teachings of Jesus when we came together for in the evenings

I was born from a Christian family.
I was introduced into different religions through my school and classmates.
I was indoctrinated in our Church at the age of 13.
I was baptized in our Church at the age of 14.

I was told to remain in God's will.
And I'm still enjoying my life at the same time.
I live in a happy family and a harmonious one.

I'm lucky enough I belong to Christ's Kingdom.
And I still didn't find any reason to change it.

🙂 I thank God for His guidance and all His blessings.

I really haven't change much. Just learned some new stuff. I hate to be dismissive of the stuff I've learned in my life. And I don't think is about growing up. You just learn new things. That is all. Besides don't matter what you think...you still gonna die sometime. Live and enjoy it. That's how I see it.

Ohh..btw-I was raised in between Catholic and Hebrew.....yup, I'm one of those. 😉

You are special aren't you???

Umm..in what way would you see me as special?

Originally posted by WindDancer
.....yup, I'm one of those. 😉

Because.....^^
That's all...just kidding... 🙄

I see...

Ohh..btw-I was raised in between Catholic and Hebrew.....yup, I'm one of those.

christian. still am christian but getting stronger in my faith

SpellJammer's beliefs matured, they never changed. (Well, sense they matured SpellJammer guesses they did change, whatever! 😛 )

Mom raised SpellJammer open to all points of view, we had friends and family of differant religons. Mostly Christians, and we were not personaly. And both sides were okay with this. We had differances, and we realized that's what made us special..

What bothers SpellJammer is this hatred towards spirituality especialy towards Christianity. What are people so damn afraid of?! SpellJammer know hate has no bearing on logic or reason but Jesus Christ man, when you can honostly believe the shit you spew about how "Well the Christians did this and the Islams did that and--"

What's that got to do with you, SpellJammer, God, and those other people sitting over there? Did any of us rape and pillage a village? Did any of us enforce our beliefs on the populace?

Instead of wasting your time dwelling on the negative like some damn emo, you should appreciate the variety of beliefs that are out there. Every one filled with ideas and stories that stimulate the mind and leave you with a sense of positive feeling. Wether it's true or not is irrelevant, you're around friends, family, and you're talking about God. Who is good. Therfore you're sorrounding yourself with good.

But SpellJammer thinks it'll take alot more then simple step-by-step introductions to get some people to see that. Some people just like to be miserable..