Have you changed your beliefs since coming to RF?

[Fluffy]

Man, I have no idea!

I guess I've never been sure enough in my religious "convictions" to see any change in them as a major over haul .

 

[sparc872]

Wow! Lots of great responses! Thanks everyone, keep them coming in. It's nice to hear everybody's stories.

 

[PHOTOTAKER]

i joined rf cuz it looked interesting and i wanted to learn more about other religions... i beleive that if you don't do that then you fail at being human learn all that you can!!!!

 

[sparc872]

Sorry guys, I got to Mike with the karma and found out I can be too generous here. You will all have to wait for a day, your points are on their way though

 

[Quiddity]

I can identify with that. When I was Orthodox, I had this exchange at least once a month:

Some Evangelical: Orthodoxy seems a lot like paganism to me.

Me: I know; that's one of the reasons I like it better than Protestantism.

May ask outside of the Papacy why Roman Catholicism would be any different?

 

[PureX]

Have you changed your beliefs since coming to RF?

Yes. I've come to believe that I'm even SMARTER than I'd previously thought!


*hahaha*

 

[Mr. Hair]

Yes, to a certain extent... (Though I'm not sure I'd call it a major change)

I feel that instead of 'changing' per se, my faith has been clarified and I'm now able, on a good day with a fair wind, to be aware of a greater sense of perspective about my spirituality. My core beliefs haven't really changed, but what was once a confusing morass is now; well, it's still confusing, but occasionally I get the sense that there is now an underlying harmony to it all, even if I can't see it right now.

One thing that has most certainly changed, and a large part of that is down to RF, is my view of other faiths. I never held an "us vs them" siege mentality, but I did used to see them as being very separate and distant from my own jumbled collection of feelings. Nowadays, I feel a far more (I can't think of a better way to put this) incestuous, or at least promiscuous, relationship betwixt them and I. I've been reconciled to such an extent that if I end up going to Uni, I'll almost certainly focus on something about early Christian theology or history, when even a few months ago I was feeling alienated by and even a little resentful of my parent's faith.

 

[Mathematician]

Well, I voted "yes", though I haven't undergone a total transformation from no God to God.

I came here as an evangelical atheist who hated religion and morphed into a Unitarian Universalist who identifies himself still as an atheist (when asked), but is on the fence when it comes to Eastern belief systems, and loves everyone for whatever religion they chose.

I'm also a Mohist, but that's more philosophical than religious.

 

[Tigress]

I came to RF a Unitarian Universalist. Since that time, I've not changed my beliefs so much as enriched them, via my discovery of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

 

[ChrisP]

I came in wondering about the reasons of life... and now realise there are none besides the ones my parents taught me. Love. Compassion. Patience

The only addition is Simplicity.

 

[Smoke]

May ask outside of the Papacy why Roman Catholicism would be any different?

Roman Catholicism is more logical and rationalistic than Orthodoxy. However, I would personally prefer RC worship and spirituality to any Protestant equivalent, with the possible exception of the Anglicans and the Lutherans. I very nearly converted to Catholicism in my very early twenties, but I went Anglican (at that time) instead.

 

[Quiddity]

Roman Catholicism is more logical and rationalistic than Orthodoxy. However, I would personally prefer RC worship and spirituality to any Protestant equivalent, with the possible exception of the Anglicans and the Lutherans. I very nearly converted to Catholicism in my very early twenties, but I went Anglican (at that time) instead.

Impressive answer. Thanks...