what religion did you chose

[Random]

Just out of curiosity, why do you go to the Catholic Church?

Because I never officially broke from the faith. If someone asks what my religion is, I'll usually say "non-practicing Catholic".

Also because it's convenient. If there were a Buddhist temple nearby, which there isn't, I would go there as well.

 

[Halcyon]

i am a Muslim- i'd say it was more like my being guided to Islam than choosing it. i've been a practicing Muslim for six months now.

I guessed it would only be a matter if time, what was the final push you needed?

 

[rheff78]

Because I never officially broke from the faith. If someone asks what my religion is, I'll usually say "non-practicing Catholic".

Also because it's convenient. If there were a Buddhist temple nearby, which there isn't, I would go there as well.

So I take it you still believe in some of the teachings?

 

[science_is_my_god]

I was born and raised Catholic. I was taught that God created everything--- the universe, myself, even my personality. But I rationalized to myself in my mid-teens "If God created me, and gave me this personality, then why would I value logic and rational thought, when believing in something I can not see, would be completely illogical? So therefor, God is illogical, and I value logic, so I do not value God. So I am destined to burn in the hell that was creaated? Doesn't that contradict the concept of free will? And if there is no free will, what about the concept of sin?" So pretty much every aspect of the "Word of God" seemed to crumble away with logic and reason. That is why I became an atheist.

 

[rheff78]

I was born and raised Catholic. I was taught that God created everything--- the universe, myself, even my personality. But I rationalized to myself in my mid-teens "If God created me, and gave me this personality, then why would I value logic and rational thought, when believing in something I can not see, would be completely illogical? So therefor, God is illogical, and I value logic, so I do not value God. So I am destined to burn in the hell that was creaated? Doesn't that contradict the concept of free will? And if there is no free will, what about the concept of sin?" So pretty much every aspect of the "Word of God" seemed to crumble away with logic and reason. That is why I became an atheist.

You know what's funny? Logic and reason are two of the reasons I believe in God. Though I do see you still capitalize God when you are talking about him.

 

[Random]

So I take it you still believe in some of the teachings?

Yes, some.

 

[MiChAelThOmPsOn72]

I have no religion and am not seeking one. I am more into just learning about others beliefs and their faith.

 

[whereismynotecard]

I have no religion and am not seeking one. I am more into just learning about others beliefs and their faith.

But what do you believe in?? Or maybe you believe in nothing??

 

[ayani]

I guessed it would only be a matter if time, what was the final push you needed?

*grin* ya, the post-content signs were there for a few months.

it was kind of gradual. i actually started going to friday prayers on campus, thinking more deeply about God, reading the Quran, talking to people, allowing myself to be skeptical and distant for a while.

what ultimately convinced me were the very true, to my ears and heart, things the Quran says about God's nature, our human nature, and the nature of faith and of religion. also, the attributes of God mentioned therein blew me away- i read a translation of their meanings, and was very moved. and am more and more convinced that the Quran was bestowed, not invented or composed.

i'm not really a proselytizer, though. to each his own, and i believe that God guides whom He will in the ways that He will, regardless of the faith labels we may adopt or project onto others.

 

[MiChAelThOmPsOn72]

But what do you believe in?? Or maybe you believe in nothing??

I believe in nothing actually. I just find reading others beliefs and faith interesting. Especially some who search and search for what they believe will be their religion. But all of a sudden, they decide to seek another religion because the previous religion were not all about truth or they got lost and now they need to find their way again.

 

[Lindsey-Loo]

I chose to be baptized into Christianity when I was 11.

 

[windy]

I was born Jewish. Then I chose to quit being a part of religion. Then God chose me to be a born again Christian.
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[emiliano]

why did you chose your religion and when

I am a Christian, I don’t think that that I chose it, its just that I found peace, rest and happiness in this faith, I believe that I was drawn to it, as for when, it was late in life, I was very tired, despairing and unhappy. When I finally came to faith all that past away.

 

[science_is_my_god]

You know what's funny? Logic and reason are two of the reasons I believe in God. Though I do see you still capitalize God when you are talking about him.

I would like to hear your logical, reasonable, arguement for the existence of God, then. Oh and by the way, I capitolize his name because I'm using it as a name, and therefor grammatically correct.

 

[rheff78]

I would like to hear your logical, reasonable, arguement for the existence of God, then. Oh and by the way, I capitolize his name because I'm using it as a name, and therefor grammatically correct.

Reason-The universe and world and human body are too perfectly designed to have happened by accident

Logic-No one has been able to disprove the existence of God, the evidence is still too overwhelming that there IS God.

You won't agree, but I don't expect you to.

 

[Kcnorwood]

I went to church as a kid because it got me away from my crappy parents as I gew older I found out that Christianty was not my cup of tea. I'm a nature lover more then anything & the more I looked at Paganism the more I felt a draw to it & here I am....


:camp:

 

[Don Penguinoini]

I was born into Hinduism. Thank god for it too.

 

[science_is_my_god]

Reason-The universe and world and human body are too perfectly designed to have happened by accident

Logic-No one has been able to disprove the existence of God, the evidence is still too overwhelming that there IS God.

You won't agree, but I don't expect you to.

Reason- The world is NOT perfect. Look at all the diseases and imperfections in nature. And evolution is NOT "an accident"; the evolutionary process follows specific rules.

Logic-Me being unable to disprove that there is a god does NOT prove there is one. And, by the way, what "overwhelming evidence" do you have to proove a god's existence?

 

[rheff78]

Reason- The world is NOT perfect. Look at all the diseases and imperfections in nature. And evolution is NOT "an accident"; the evolutionary process follows specific rules.

Logic-Me being unable to disprove that there is a god does NOT prove there is one. And, by the way, what "overwhelming evidence" do you have to proove a god's existence?

Three quarter's of the world's population believe in a supreme being. Second, the reason for all the "imperfections" as you call it is free-will.

 

[Don Penguinoini]

Reason- The world is NOT perfect. Look at all the diseases and imperfections in nature.

No no no no no! We are the imperfection in earth. Our world, and our bodies ARE perfect. We are parasites to ourselves and earth. If we didn't exist, or at least mess it up, you would say our existence is perfect!