Question for those who chose another religious path

[dragynfly0515]

Sometimes certain beleifs are better left unsaid for ones own personal benefits.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. The need to 'confess' one's religious beliefs implies the need for approval or acceptance from the people one is 'confessing' to.

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Crys

 

[syberpriend]

Did any1 tried google search for most religion spreading in the world?

 

[dragynfly0515]

Did any1 tried google search for most religion spreading in the world?

CNN says it is Islam. religioustolerance.org says that in the US, Canada and Australia it is Wicca. I am interested as to what your point is.

:candle:
Crys

 

[Dena]

I agree with this wholeheartedly. The need to 'confess' one's religious beliefs implies the need for approval or acceptance from the people one is 'confessing' to.

Yes, but my absence in conversations and social situations will become obvious at some point. Just about every person I am in contact with is a Christian. When everyone's life revolves around a particular religion and you stop participating in that faith, you are either going to have to hide who you are or just be honest because it's going to be obvious to them that something isn't as it used to be. Why should I hide who I am and what I'm doing? I will never get approval or acceptance. But I don't want to pretend I'm someone else.

 

[blackout]

Sometimes certain beleifs are better left unsaid for ones own personal benefits.
I choose not to hide it, but I also don't broadcast amongst my personal life.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. The need to 'confess' one's religious beliefs implies the need for approval or acceptance from the people one is 'confessing' to.

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Crys

Yes, but my absence in conversations and social situations will become obvious at some point. Just about every person I am in contact with is a Christian. When everyone's life revolves around a particular religion and you stop participating in that faith, you are either going to have to hide who you are or just be honest because it's going to be obvious to them that something isn't as it used to be. Why should I hide who I am and what I'm doing? I will never get approval or acceptance. But I don't want to pretend I'm someone else.

well yeah... my days of "confession" are over. lol
I don't "confess" anything to anyone,:sarcastic
and what I do and don't tell people is all weighed
to my own personal benefit, and that of my children.

I don't owe anyone any explanations or "truths" about mySelf,
especially since people will always see you
in light of their OWN (mis)understandings and "truths"...
they will always see THEIR OWN version of "you"...
instead of what you are REALLY about.
Very few people will truly seek to understand you anyway.
So why put yourSelf out there in harms way?
For what?

Almost everything about me is controversial
in the society in which I live.
I take chances opening up over time
with the occasional person I feel a kindred connection with.

With others it should be enough for me to reply,
no, I'm not a christian (anymore). I don't owe them anything more.
If people weren't so superstitious, and full of taboo
it would not matter.
But they are.
So it does.

 

[syberpriend]

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cnn says it is islam. Religioustolerance.org says that in the us, canada and australia it is wicca. I am interested as to what your point is.

The point is, as the topic say, ppl change religion not for moneey gain, or any pleasure, but to find the truth, and peace in the heart, if ppl are coming mostly to islam, wats in this religion that even with sooo much critisism through media and other means, ppl are adopting merrily this religion.

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Crys

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[Mr Cheese]

For those of you who grew up with one particular religion and changed your mind as an adult (either going to another or doing away with it all together), how did you tell your family? How did they react? Were you concerned with how they would respond or was it a non-issue? Are you treated differently?

most of my family are atheist Jews.

I havent really told any of them, and they dont really care.
Then I'm not all that close with my family, growing up on another continent will do that, although, I'm a solitary kinda person....

I mentioned kabbalah to my grandmother once, she was quite unhappy....

not a great answer I know....

It is a monday

 

[ThereIsNoSpoon]

For those of you who grew up with one particular religion and changed your mind as an adult (either going to another or doing away with it all together), how did you tell your family? How did they react? Were you concerned with how they would respond or was it a non-issue? Are you treated differently?

I didn't.
If i had done so i would be dead already.

 

[Atreyu]

well yeah... my days of "confession" are over. lol
I don't "confess" anything to anyone,:sarcastic
and what I do and don't tell people is all weighed
to my own personal benefit, and that of my children.

I don't owe anyone any explanations or "truths" about mySelf,
especially since people will always see you
in light of their OWN (mis)understandings and "truths"...
they will always see THEIR OWN version of "you"...
instead of what you are REALLY about.
Very few people will truly seek to understand you anyway.
So why put yourSelf out there in harms way?
For what?

Almost everything about me is controversial
in the society in which I live.
I take chances opening up over time
with the occasional person I feel a kindred connection with.

With others it should be enough for me to reply,
no, I'm not a christian (anymore). I don't owe them anything more.
If people weren't so superstitious, and full of taboo
it would not matter.
But they are.
So it does.

I have never even told my boyfriend that I am a Satanist. He would never understand. Some people would ask why I would date someone who wouldn't accept me and I would tell them because he beneficial to me in many ways.

 

[Rogue Cardinal]

You have to get past your insecurities. My wife accepted me when she was an agnostic and I was a Methodist. Now we are both Atheist. Long trip but we got there. IF people wont' accept you for whom you are....are they worth keeping around? Not in my book. I have too much living to do to be obsessed about what one or two people think.

 

[dragynfly0515]

Yes, but my absence in conversations and social situations will become obvious at some point. Just about every person I am in contact with is a Christian. When everyone's life revolves around a particular religion and you stop participating in that faith, you are either going to have to hide who you are or just be honest because it's going to be obvious to them that something isn't as it used to be. Why should I hide who I am and what I'm doing? I will never get approval or acceptance. But I don't want to pretend I'm someone else.

I have found the choices to be difficult, and that each choice carries a cost. In some situations, I have decided that I value certain relationships over the freedom to express myself. In other situations, if the relationship was not as valuable, I chose self expression. In those instances, I did lose those particular friends and it was painful. But as you said, I didn't have to pretend anymore. In some cases I do hide who I am in order to preserve relationships that have significant value to me.

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Crys