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Your religion and your religious background

Is your religion part of your family heritage?

  • My parents converted to my religion from a different religion.

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  • One of my parents converted to my religion from a different religion.

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Zephyr

Moved on
My dad's some sort of Gnostic and my ma's some sort of liberal Christian. I wasn't really raised religiously past age 5 or so (when my family had finally disassociated themselves with every church in town.)

I kind of went Christian-in-name-only->Agnostic Atheist (didn't see religion as a big deal)->Pagan->Muslim (still don't know what I was thinking there.)->Heathen->Really REALLY angry Heathen.
 

jeager106

Learning more about Jehovah.
Premium Member
15 years now still searching for truth. I think it's hopeless.
I was attending a non denominational chruch, was baptised there.
I broke away as they preached the hell doctrine, the Holy Trinity, and the church Christmass pagent was a huge deal complete with live donkeys and camels
inside the church. They stunk bad and pooped a lot.
My studies have revealed to me the rapture is false, hell is downright pagan, as is Easter and Christmas.
Right now I don't feel any Christian denomination has the Bible nailed down right tho all denominations swear they have the facts down perfectly and those not members of that "right" denomination are all going to burn in hell.
Silly notion.
I want to believe that Jesus 2nd coming will happen soon before we all get nuked
or fall victim to radical Islam and get shot.
I teach my 15 year old wonderful son to keep an open mind and seek for himself.
Like most 15 year old boys he's not exactly bubbling over with joy at the prospects of going to church.
 

Jainarayan

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
Staff member
Premium Member
Are you a convert to your religion, or do you follow the same faith as your ancestors --

Resurrected thread is resurrected, but what the heck... :p

Convert to what may be the religion of my ancestors. My birth religion was Roman Catholic, but now I am an Asatruar. I have strong reason to believe my ancestors were northern European, probably Germanic or Norman. Between the years about 793 CE to 1066 CE, during the Viking Age, they would have worshiped the Norse Gods.
 

Salek Atesh

Active Member
I put "converted many times" because I'm still uncertain as to what constitutes a "conversion". It's not as if I wake up one day and radically believe something different. Rather my views change and evolved into what they are now. Is every small change a conversion?? If so, I've converted more times than I can count. If not, then I've never converted, despite what I believe now being radically different then my initial beliefs...

Started Lutheran. Became a religion nerd, started researching and learning everything I could about different religions. Read the Tao Te Ching, accepted it as true (and still accept it), though I've never considered myself "Taoist" since I only accept the Tao Te Ching, and not many of the other beliefs that come with that label. After re-reading New Testament, became Monarchianist deciding that while the Trinity made sense to me, it seemed quite like Jesus himself said it was not the case. Found out about the Baha'i Faith, investigated because it seemed to make sense of the many parallels in the faiths I had studied, became convinced of its truth due to accurate, historically recorded prophecies, and right now I'm formally a Baha'i. Current research is centered quite a bit on European Paganism, since my Faith's prophet teaches the truth of Hinduism and Zoroastrianism, and since both of them as well as traditional European religions share the same roots in the Dyeus religion of the Proto Indo Europeans, I suspect there may be great truth in them as well. Also repeatedly trying to learn more about Zoroastrianism, but it is hard to read the Avesta, in my opinion.
 

GoodbyeDave

Well-Known Member
My mother was an Anglican and my father an anti-clerical Roman Catholic. After a lot of study of Christian origins and comparative religion, I finally reverted to the faith of my ancestors (and of everybody's!) — paganism.
 

arthra

Baha'i
Well in my case both my wife and I converted to the Baha'i Faith independently before we married... Both of our parents (hers and mine) happened to have American Baptist backgrounds... prior to being Baptist our families were Brethren and both originated in Switzerland. We found all this out after our marriage... My wife's brother became a Baha'i and he married a Baha'i. All of our children became Baha'is.
 

Aštra’el

Aštara, Blade of Aštoreth

I was raised Christian, but was encouraged to learn from any religion I wish.

I went "dark side" for awhile but eventually chose a path of moral balance. I ended up liberating myself morally, sexually, and religiously, and, after absorbing the wisdom of many religions, developed my own system that could be best described as Sumero-Abrahamic Paganism.

 

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
I am a born Hindu. Wandered among different views of Hinduism and Buddhism (monotheist religions being out of my preview because of their exclusivity), turned atheist, but remained a Hindu.
 

Sha'irullah

رسول الآلهة
I was raised as a Christian and moved on to Islam then afterwards became familiar with Satanism, Hinduism, and Paganism and just stayed neutral. I finally abandoned it and remained an atheist and have been happy ever since. Eventually though atheism was not enough because I felt bad trying to remains neutral on matters and starting functioning as an anti-theist. As an anti-theist I can profess my disbelief along with my beliefs.

I still hold an interest in numerology, nature worship, and alchemy though.
 

Levite

Higher and Higher
Born and raised Orthodox Jewish, then went agnostic/atheist, studied other religions and spiritual philosophies for a bit, then returned to Jewish observance, nominally Conservative. Ordained as a rabbi by the Conservative movement. Now sort of nebulously Conservadox-ish.
 

Woodrow LI

IB Ambassador
Been a long 65 year journey that eventually brought me to Islam
Catholic-Protestant-Fundementalist/Evangelical- agnostic to Atheist (With Buddhist tendencies)- Islam
 

Sundance

pursuing the Divine Beloved
Premium Member
My mother was a Nondeminational Christian (now Non religious) and my father was Non-religious. In tenth grade, I decided to become a Unitarian Universalist.
 

Tarheeler

Argumentative Curmudgeon
Premium Member
Started out as a Southern Baptist, and ended up (after several years of study, a hatafat dam brit, a beit din, and immersion in a mikvah) an observant Jew.
 

sampuna

Member
was born into a Chinese folk religion family. "Scripturally" i'm more inclined to Theravada Buddhism, very scriptural, rejects Abhidhamma. Practises Chinese folk religion side by side Theravada Buddhism.
 

illykitty

RF's pet cat
No religious identity, I was baptised but only out of tradition. I didn't know much at all about Christianity. It's only as an adult that I had a look at most religions, at least at surface levels. I almost settled on Islam but realised I was deluding myself, that I didn't really believe any of it. I wanted to believe it because I wanted order and security.

Then I went through many things again, and realised I can't go with something that has certitude in gods, as I've never experienced named gods. I've felt something bigger than myself, sure, but I don't know if it's a deity or just awe. So I finally let go of wanting to have gods, decided to worship that which brings awe to me, regardless of there being literal divinity. I take a more subjective metaphoric approach and am finally happy with it...

I embraced my sceptical side and have a religion that is based around celebration, philosophy, ritual, humanistic principles but has no supernatural or woo.
 

Slide

The 1st Rule.
I was raised as a Southern Baptist. My parents come from a 200+ year history of Christianity. I became a Skeptic last August, though I've struggled to nail down any kind of label for myself. Bottom line: I believe in evidence, and even if the God of the Bible did exist, I wouldn't follow him (though I did for 24 years).
 
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