Why are you the religion you are? Were you simply raised that way or did you choose later in life?
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Mary Maguire
ANSWERS: 9
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I chose based upon ethics, logic, and evidence. Mostly, I just got away from dogma and doctrine completely.
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based on how i already felt i found something that fell in line with it.
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My background was Baptist..Several family members were preachers. However, my immediate family saw much hypocracy being practiced in the Churches..So my mother just stopped attending church... Years later, I came into contact with Jehovah's witnesses. They answered my questions from the Bible. When I started attending the Kingdom Hall, it was like a class room and we studied the Bible...I was amazed to learn what the Bible really says. However, I have to admit that I learned some things that I didn't want to know, because it meant that I would have to make some major changes in my life to be acceptable to God. It took me a while to come to grips with this. However, after a couple of years I was baptised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses. That was 38 years ago.
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I'm spiritual and rather not follow just one religion. I was baptized Catholic, went to a Baptist church as a kid and studied a little Buddhism after that.
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Raised Catholic. Now I'm an atheist because there's no evidence that any god exists of any religion I've ever heard of.
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I'm agnostic. My parents were christian (anglican and protestant) while I was growing up, though religion was not a part of our lives. We went to church more for the social aspect and gave it up in favor for sleeping in on Sundays when I was about 6. My father is now an atheist. I don't think I gave much consideration to my religious beliefs growing up, but looking back I would say I have always been agnostic.
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aetheist and my parents never pushed religion. baasically i used to be a christian then for a short time i was agnostic then i went aetheist. basically it was my neighbors constant pestering of "worshipping" with them, the ignorance of religions and their follwers, and the fact that i had increasingly bad luck that never let up
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My dad's a former Catholic turned Protestant and my mom has always been an atheist. I was raised Catholic for a while then forcibly converted to Protestantism. I'm agnostic because I feel like there should be something big and powerful out there in the universe, I just don't want to bother worshiping it or naming it.
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I was not raised in a religious household. I just kept on asking alot of questions and did alot of research. http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/7025764 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/7133378
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