Did you change your religious views during your life?

[El Poncho]

I got baptised but all through my life my family have never said anything about religon to me, only my primary school did and that was the same thing every year easter story and Christmas play. So I havn't exactly changed my religon since I was never part of it since I was baptised.

I don't know my mum and dads view on religon anymore, as far as I know there just lazy christians who don't go to church.

 

[PureChaos]

i've always been an agnostic and most likely always will be

 

[ilessthanthreetea]

Raised as a protestant, with aspects of Judaism from my nana when wee, now Im a buddhist.

 

[WinkyTheGreat]

I'm not part of a religon but im not an atheist, I beleive there is something out there bigger than myself but i really don't beleive any religon is right or wrong.

I think that's being agnostic.

I think I have a cream for that.

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I don't think anybody has answered it yet. Hot Fuzz.

EDIT: Damn, someone else got it...

OT: I grew up in a very Christian Family. My uncle is a pastor, my mom went to church every Sunday and my sister and I went to my uncle's church with our grandparents. Not sure about my dad. I stayed one of the "Christian Kids" up until my Sophomore or Junior year of High School. Up until then, I really hadn't been exposed to the fact that there were other religions. During that time, I became a neo-Pagan/ Druid because it was part of my family history (my ancestors coming from the Scotland area). That quickly changed to being an "Agnostic Druid", in which I kept some of the Druidic ideas, but didn't really think any religion was right. This is about where I stayed for a while adopting ideas from various religions such as Taoism and Buddhism. At one point, I tried Jedi while watching The Empire Strikes back. I couldn't move the remote to me so I gave that up. Now, I've kept little aspects of all of that but I classify myself as a Deist (a clockwork universe).

 

[tan-z]

I'm not part of a religon but im not an atheist, I beleive there is something out there bigger than myself but i really don't beleive any religon is right or wrong.

I think that's being agnostic.

No, being agnostic just means that you don't think that the knowledge of God is possible, it's pretty useless without qualifying it with either theist or atheist. Most people who call themselves 'agnostic' are actually ignostic.

And as for me, my mum was a christian so I went to church one or two times but I've never really believed in any of it and in fact the more I learn about religion the more anti-theistic I get.

 

[hazakura]

Yet another Christian-turned-Agnostic tale comin' up.

Well,shoot, First sentence and there you go. The same was for me.

 

[p3t3r]

i was raised Christian by my mother while my dad was a firm atheist. so eventually as he showed me science and started disproving religion i just gave it up. i know have a firm dislike for religion, and am an atheist

 

[The_Prophet]

I was raised in a Non-denominational Christian home. ( given the posts by many others in this thread, thank God it wasn't Catholic)

Anyway, in my teens, I became disgusted by the actions of so-called "Christians" and began to question God. I studied other religions, and was impressed by some of them, namely Buddism. But, I never progressed to the point of believing in Buddism or any other religion. I looked into the possibility that Science ( Evolution) could provide the alternative to religion that I was searching for. Being a person of logic, I quickly realized that human existence without a creator or designer was severly flawed, and impossible. Science was not the answer, Other religions weren't the answer, so, I once again looked into my family's religion.

I couldn't understand WHY God could allow the things he did, and HOW the supposed "Christians" of the church I attended could be so downright disgusting.

I questioned God, and after coming to the logical conclusion that he must exist, I had to find the answer to my questions about the "Christians" and the evils of the world that happen on a daily basis.

After talking with Christians and non-Christians alike, I realized that the bad events of this world aren't God's doing. That evil happens without design or prompting by God, ultimately being the result of the free-will concept so vitally important to the relationship that God wants with human beings.

My concerns over the hypocritical and disgusting actions of Christians have only recently been resolved. The idea that someone who is a Christian, would actually live up to the philosophy and message of Jesus is impossible. Instead, realizing that Christians are flawed, damaged, and disjointed like ALL humans are, has given me a tolerance for being around Christians.

Now that I am older and a little wiser, I realize that as a teen, I was expecting the impossible from God, as if somehow, God owed me something. I still have questions about things, religious and natural, but my belief in Jesus is now firm. No other concept has answered so many of my questions, so perfectly.

I'm the same, minus the growing up part and expecting too much in teens. I grew up in an mostly atheist family and I am in my teens now.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Raised catholic, then become atheist, then christian again after some event, and then lost faith and now more of an atheistic satanist (and yes it does actually exist)...

 

[crudus]

I was raised very catholic, but when i got old enough my parents let me make my own decisions on it. Ive decided to stray away from religion altogether, its just not for me. I will probably raise my kids the same, its only fair.

I was the same way. I was baptized Catholic, confirmed Protestant, and found out that Christianity stopped making sense and converted to Discordianism.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

My father's family is Jewish, and my mother's is - I'm not sure, because they never seemed Atheist or religious at the same time, so possibly agnostic.

Anyways, because of this I've never been baptised, christened etc. and since my family had a relaxed relgious view I was left to my own devices. I joined the Cub Scouts and once went to the church service they held. It was almost incalculably boring and worse still; they made me pay money.

I've never been to church again, though I have gone from christian (because everyone else was doing it), to agnostic, and now I'm an atheist. Fun life eh?

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Religion didn't really exist in my immediate family, I think I asked my parents what they believe once and all they said was "doesn't matter, make your own mind up". So no, really been an atheist my whole life.

 

[Asymptote Angel]

I have a pretty Catholic family, but I started having real issues with the Church's teachings when I was 15. Over the course of the next year and a half, I slid from being a practicing Catholic to a non-practicing Catholic to a full-blown non-believer.

 

[Flamezdudes]

You know, you can't really blame the jews for killing Jesus. If some fellow started going around the country saying he was your God and king, you wouldn't be very happy now would you? And if he did exist, he knew full well of the consequences of doing that stuff.

So... stupid. Athiesm ftw.

 

[Cakes]

who said the bible was the inerrant word of god? (well, besides the fundamentalists.) even when i was a theist i never believed that.

Orthodox Jews do, and there's a fucking lot of those. I believe Reform Jews outnumber them in Canada and the U.S. though.

Anyway, I was Roman Catholic. Baptized, eaten Jesus, all that good shit. We went to church fairly often, eventually we stopped for some reason. I started thinking about it and thought "wow this is a load of fucking bullshit!". Went through my Super-Angsty-Atheist phase, have become more and more moderate over the years...I'm a very weak-atheist at this point. Actually, I might not be an atheist anymore. I'm at the "I just don't fucking know" point. I've toyed with the idea of converting to another religion (Christianity just isn't for me), so far nothing.

 

[ace_of_something]

I went from Catholic to Lutheran. The only differance is a lack of pope really.

 

[Monkeytacoz]

You know, you can't really blame the jews for killing Jesus. If some fellow started going around the country saying he was your God and king, you wouldn't be very happy now would you? And if he did exist, he knew full well of the consequences of doing that stuff.

So... stupid. Athiesm ftw.

its funny because people at church will rage if you tell them Jesus was a Jew

 

[WlknCntrdiction]

I was baptised(I think, my mum never told me that I definately did and I'm not really going to ask cause I don't give a shit)and my family are legally Christian but we never go to church. When I began to question alot of things and think about them logically then that's when I strated to become an atheist, my parents know and don't really care so everything is alright.
When my mums' mum found out though, she went apeshit on me lol, thank god she lives in Barbados, but I always have to steel myself when we fly over though because I know my atheism will get brought up somehow.