Changing your religion?

[pete29]

I think that a lot of people don't like Christianity isn't because of Christian beliefs, it's because many Christians don't practice what their religion teaches. As a Catholic, I have had many Protestants basically condemn me to hell because of my beliefs. Conversely, I've heard many Catholics say the same thing about Protestants. I've looked through the New Testament and i haven't read anywhere where Jesus condemned anyone for their faith, unless maybe it was for worshiping money.

 

[Lux et Umbra]

No I haven't, but I'm new here.

I don't think I'd ever up and change my path (totally) and convert to any faith, but since I have been here I have come across new paths (example: Luciferianism) that interest me and I am able to learn about them. I like learning about religions and such things, I find it facinating.

While I'm here I think I'd just learn more so than change my beliefs. Though I do evolve and change within my own spirituality so it's possible that while I am here various views and outlooks will change as well. I could always go back to one of the many paths I've looked into/been on before while I'm here, not sure.

 

[Revasser]

I dropped religion entirely since coming here. RF was certainly quite influential in that, or rather, some of the members were. Some of the non-theists here made some very persuasive arguments and after a time I found I couldn't compartmentalise my thinking any longer. Though perhaps, having started off an atheist and only indulging in a religious "phase" for a relatively short time, I was a "soft target."

 

[yuvgotmel]

Have you changed your religion since joining RF? Have you considered changing, or even just changed a small portion of your religious outlook? If you have, was it because of RF, or something external?
If not, do you think the idea of changing a religious belief, however small, because of discussion means something negative about the person?

Well, I'll say this: This forum is extremely addictive.

Some of what I have read is quite infuriating; some of it is saddening; some of it is just plain humorous; and so on and so forth.

Perhaps I haven't been around long enough for any of it to wear off on me enough to change my views.

...It's been a long time since I've been around a crowd of a lot of diverse young people. I come from a strong background of strictness in military and other law enforcement-type jobs. And too, I have been a member of many online forums in the past years, but most of them were made up of well-seasoned characters, professors and scholars. Dealing with such a complex mesh of people, like are here on RF, has certainly been eye-opening. This forum has been a first for me--in the way of introducing me to some of the more rarer beliefs and other branches/sects of various religious structures. I have found myself at odds with some of the stronger religious stances and beliefs which are presented on these boards. I have been an esoteric recluse (if there is such a thing) for so many years that I find myself--on these boards--realizing just how out-of-place I am in this world. If the views here are a sampling of the greater population, especially that of the younger generations, then the future worries me a bit.

Whether or not RF will "change" me as linear time goes on, I do not know.

 

[joeboonda]

Time spent here has only helped strengthen my belief in Jesus as my personal Lord and Saviour. It has helped me to study and reearch as much as I did when I was younger, and the more I learn, the greater my joy and peace grows in the blessed assurance I have found in Jesus. I am glad to know my feet are planted on the solid rock of Jesus, who loves me and died for me, Praise the Lord.

 

[ayani]

Revasser is back! yaay! :fox:

as for me, ya, my faith has changed since coming here. went from Quaker, to not-really-anything, to the path i follow now. i have learned so much since coming here... especially about Islam and the LDS faith. :hug: thank you, guys.