Have you ever converted into a new religion?
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No, but I went from being a CATHOLIC (Religion), to a child of GOD (reality).
874193
Well you're not really converting if you were already a Christian. Just choose whichever denomination you fell most comfortable with. None of them are perfect. Maybe you should tryout a few different ones to see what you might like.
768232
i don't believe in religion to begin with. i would never join or convert to please someone else. i have to be true to myself and my native roots.
1026066
I blasphemed god, and he turned me into a newt.\n\n\n\n...I got better.
862401
Yes, I have adopted other religions's beliefs as my own...\n\n"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it"\n- Buddha -\n\n“The individual who prosecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster”\n- Voltaire -
677477
That's amazing... I've found a new religion.  FSMism!  :-P
1075309
That happened to me.  I guess at first I felt totally betrayed, mad, I didn't know what to do or what to think.  Then I started trying to educate myself to "make sure" that I was correct that my belief system was based on lies.  The whole process has taken several years, but then I started researching many other beliefs and religions and found out that most of them were also.  So I am no longer a part of organized religion and I have discovered my own beliefs.  I'm still on my spiritual quest but my current beliefs probably lean toward New Thought.
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Since I am a Jehovah's Witness, could not very well convert a Witness to main stream christianity.   BUT have brought others with Jehovah's help out of christianity.\n\nIn 2005 there were from   "Christianity"   247,631, that became Jehovah's Witnesses and everyone of these had to change their minds pertaining to the false teachings that they had been taught, these were people that used their own Bible, King James, etc., 28,384 were from the United States.
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No, you do not have to convert. And chances are that there are a few churches around. So you probably could if you felt like it.\n\nDon't drink the Kool-aid.
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I'm not an atheist... but I'll take the hypothetical anyway and pretend that I'm being asked to convert to a particular religion, being as I am not religious at all. The question is, after all, would I convert and practice a belief system different from my own to save my daughter.\n\nWell, of course I would, generally speaking... but would it matter? As you say... if there's a God, He would know that I didn't really begin to believe anything different, and I'd probably make him that much more angry with me. I'd do an awful lot for a child of mine.\n\nI've decided to pose the question that gwad suggested, as I'd like to know what other religious people think. :)
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I had this same problem. I was raised Catholic, but very loosely. Religion did not play a major part in my life, but don't think I was ever really an atheist. I started looking into other religions such as different Christian denominations, Hinduism, Bhuddism, Zoroastrianism, Mormonism, Judaism, Sikhism, Shinto, Manicheism, Gnostic Christianity, Wicca and even simply deeper into my original Catholic upbringing. I found them all very interesting, and full of truths, but not complete. Then I looked into Islam and I converted after about a year or so of research  and study of the religion. It just seemed to be what I had already believed all along, for as long as I can remember. \nI'm not saying that you should necesarilly become a Muslim now, but look into it. I would look into other religions on a deeper level and study them to see what makes the most sense and find what you believe (note I say "believe" and "sense" in the same sentence, not "find very interesting"). Until you find something, if you don't come to your own conclusions, just believ in God and do whatyou think is right; there isn't really much room for error there.\nI hope you find what you are looking for.
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I got baptized into Catholicism, but not of my own accord.
840852
have you got your own religion?\n\n sign me up!
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I've technically been Catholic all my life -- but I only "got serious" about it four years ago.  Prior to that, if someone asked me to explain some of the major teachings of Catholicism, there's no way I could have done it.\n\nBut I looked deeply into it on my own a few years ago, and decided that the path for me was to become a "serious Catholic" and not just one in name only.  \n\nSo, in that sense, I feel very much like a convert.\n\nI lived in Japan for six years, and most of the adult Catholics who I met there were converts.  \n\nAs a group, they tended to be more "into" being Catholic than most "cradle Catholics" I've known.\n\nThat's because they actually took the time, as adults, to make this choice.  They also took the time to attend all the classes, prepare for baptism, etc.   They don't take their faith for granted.
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I changed my faith to Hinduism from what I was brought up with, after YEARS of studying all I could about various religions, the Bible, and other Scriptures, ancient and world history, archaeology, etc.  I also "studied" myself.  I prayed a lot and came to understood that Hinduism is the religion of my soul, the religion I was when I was a child, before I was told what to believe.
722658
That's hard to believe. I would change religions first.
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I was a christian and i reverted to Islam 8 years ago at the age of 18..Christianity had too many questions left unanswered and when I found islam I was completely and whole heartedly(i hope thats a word) satisfied. It has changed my life dramatically, Now im not out all times of the night acting silly.It has also calmed me down. It has changed my personality also. E1 has said that they see a big wonderful change in me. I would never ever regret coming to Islam.