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What religions have you belonged to in your life?

Sand Dancer

Sand Dancer

Currently catless
I know many people change religions in life and I was curious what y'all's experiences have been. I was just a basic Theist when I was a kid. God was a kindly man with a beard looking down at me from the clouds smiling. I like and miss that view of him. I was a Christian for 28 years, became agnostic, atheist, Baha'i, Pagan, Quaker (still Christian but just different and nice, IMO), Unitarian Universalist, toyed with LDS (not LSD), Buddhist, and probably more that I am not thinking about. What about you?
 
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Left Coast

Left Coast

This Is Water
Staff member
Premium Member
Sand Dancer said:
I know many people change religions in life and I was curious what y'all's experiences have been. I was just a basic Theist when I was a kid. God was a kindly man with a beard looking down at me from the clouds smiling. I like and miss that view of him. I was a Christian for 28 years, became agnostic, atheist, Baha'i, Pagan, Quaker (still Christian but just different and nice, IMO), toyed with LDS (not LSD), and probably more that I am not thinking about. What about you?
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Evangelical/Baptist, then Catholic. Now agnostic with Buddhist and Taoist sympathies.
 
The Sum of Awe

The Sum of Awe

Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
Staff member
Premium Member
Sand Dancer said:
I know many people change religions in life and I was curious what y'all's experiences have been. I was just a basic Theist when I was a kid. God was a kindly man with a beard looking down at me from the clouds smiling. I like and miss that view of him. I was a Christian for 28 years, became agnostic, atheist, Baha'i, Pagan, Quaker (still Christian but just different and nice, IMO), toyed with LDS (not LSD), and probably more that I am not thinking about. What about you?
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I've played around with a lot of worldviews in my life, but in true belief I was raised a Christian until around age 12, became an atheist, fell into nihilism around 15, and then at age 22 started becoming more spiritual pantheistic.
 
MikeF

MikeF

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
Sand Dancer said:
I know many people change religions in life and I was curious what y'all's experiences have been. I was just a basic Theist when I was a kid. God was a kindly man with a beard looking down at me from the clouds smiling. I like and miss that view of him. I was a Christian for 28 years, became agnostic, atheist, Baha'i, Pagan, Quaker (still Christian but just different and nice, IMO), toyed with LDS (not LSD), Buddhist, and probably more that I am not thinking about. What about you?
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Born into Irish Catholic family. We moved away from the extended families for fathers work, then parents divorced. Mother stopped going to church due to stigma of being a divorcée and distanced from extended family/support. No religion except when visiting extended family until my teen years when father and stepmother became Unitarian Universalists and we (the kids) began to go regularly to UU service with them.

I was religiously skeptical as a pre-teen and have been firmly atheist/non-religious since then.
 
InChrist

InChrist

Free4ever
Sand Dancer said:
I know many people change religions in life and I was curious what y'all's experiences have been. I was just a basic Theist when I was a kid. God was a kindly man with a beard looking down at me from the clouds smiling. I like and miss that view of him. I was a Christian for 28 years, became agnostic, atheist, Baha'i, Pagan, Quaker (still Christian but just different and nice, IMO), Unitarian Universalist, toyed with LDS (not LSD), Buddhist, and probably more that I am not thinking about. What about you?
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I was raised in Catholicism. In my mid-twenties explored Eastern religions and philosophies and Unity. Then converted to Mormonism in my later twenties. Left the LDS church after a few years and began getting involved with the Worldwide Church of God, but never joined. Finally and thankfully I was saved by Jesus Christ and born again to new eternal life. Entirely different than religion.
Jesus is completely sufficient enough.
 
Dawnofhope

Dawnofhope

Non-Proselytizing Baha'i
Staff member
Premium Member
Sand Dancer said:
I know many people change religions in life and I was curious what y'all's experiences have been. I was just a basic Theist when I was a kid. God was a kindly man with a beard looking down at me from the clouds smiling. I like and miss that view of him. I was a Christian for 28 years, became agnostic, atheist, Baha'i, Pagan, Quaker (still Christian but just different and nice, IMO), Unitarian Universalist, toyed with LDS (not LSD), Buddhist, and probably more that I am not thinking about. What about you?
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I was raised Christian, was somewhat agnostic in my teens, reconnected with my Christian roots through evangelical Christianity in my early twenties. I quickly became dissatisfied and explored Buddhism, Hinduism and atheism. I eventually became a Baha'i and have stuck with it for the last few decades.
 
Trailblazer

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
Sand Dancer said:
I know many people change religions in life and I was curious what y'all's experiences have been. I was just a basic Theist when I was a kid. God was a kindly man with a beard looking down at me from the clouds smiling. I like and miss that view of him. I was a Christian for 28 years, became agnostic, atheist, Baha'i, Pagan, Quaker (still Christian but just different and nice, IMO), Unitarian Universalist, toyed with LDS (not LSD), Buddhist, and probably more that I am not thinking about. What about you?
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I was not raised in any religion or with a belief in God. I discovered the Baha'i Faith during my first year of college and I have been a Baha'i for about 52 years now, since December 28, 1970.
 
R

rational experiences

Veteran Member
As a child forced to go to Catholic church. Until persistence of money was a parent rethink...
.. we were poor..my father a drunk as was the priest. To leave by parents permission.

I had lots of religious experiences with friends....Jehovah witness teachings told...new age revivalist meeting....didn't go back scared I would be struck dead for not believing in God.

Mormon friends....talks with Jehovah visitors. Read about Buddhism my niece's were in a retreat overseas.

Believed in various ideas given by my experience about best type of human relationships on earth with nature family...read a lot of native indian sayings. Visited many times with ex spiritualist minister.

Books the mainstay of my advice to choose good ideas from a many human families experience..
 
Aupmanyav

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Hinduism, and I am still a Hindu. Only that I changed from being a theist to a strong atheist. Which does not matter, since Hinduism has space even for an atheist. That is what I will remain in future in the few remaining years of my life - an Atheist Hindu following Advaita (non-duality).
 
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JustGeorge

JustGeorge

Imperfect
Staff member
Premium Member
Aupmanyav said:
@JustGeorge, how come you are having an extended birthday. We have already congratulated you on the occasion. Are you sort of born again? :D
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I've reincarnated as a chicken guy... that's really me in the picture. :p (Not really. :D )

(I think it takes an hour or two for it to drop the birthday announcement, for some reason.)
 
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