What is your former religion?

evangelical christian turned Buddhist. I swallowed the pill and saw the truth, I don't think I could go back even if I wanted to.

I was an atheist in my early teens, and an agnostic much of the rest of my life. I converted to Catholicism and was baptised and confirmed on the same day at the age of 46.

I was never born again, nor was it a drastic change. More a continuous journey. My Catholicism and the love of spirituality and ritual and iconic beauty has been with me all my life, as has my radical scepticism and refusal to accept doctrine just because someone in authority tells me to. During my catechism, my deacon gave me the nickname 'Trouble' and I like to think that just as much now, as a devout practising Catholic, I never accept anything without first having thought it through.

I therefore have a very clear concept of what God is - the sum total of everything that has ever lived or ever existed, and this forms the foundation of all our interactions in the past, in the present and in the future. Indeed, it is these interactions that are the essence of God, the essence of our own afterlife, and the reason we should endeavour to be good people. A massive network of ripples comprising the Universe. The mission of Christ was to enable humanity to realise its place in this grand scheme of things, by putting himself forward as a model.

Buddhism I find strangely nihilistic - as if the elimination of desire and to exist to eternity in a state of nothingness is the ultimate cure to end all suffering and the paradise I have to look forward once I reach spiritual perfection. I prefer to think of desire, in the right hands, as entirely positive, and something that fuels great things to be achieved.

The former has not at the moment Atheist, also Buddhist or Buddhism is a calm as to be

I was raised Roman Catholic.

Then, I was into Psychology after studying everything you listed and a whole lot more.

Then, I discovered Jesus is real.

And that the Protestants didn't keep following him.

So, I'm a Nazarene (the Messianic kind).

I was a Christian then an Athiest then an Agnostic then an Panthiest and now im a Wiccan

I was an Orthodox Christian, agnostic, then an atheist. Most of the time I'm an atheist, but I have my agnostic moments.

I was Satanic now I'm an Agnostic OmniPantheist

Pentecostal Xtian, before that Church of England, before that United Church of Canada.

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Catholic