What made you choose your religion?

I was born a Protestant and practised my religion religiously, until I was 20 something. Then I began to think for myself. I began to read, and study science books, as well as the bible. It seemed to me that science and religion should be going hand in hand. But they didn't.They couldn't, because science is based on Fact, and religion is based on Myth. The bible is a book of collected Myths. Much of it was written thousands of years ago in Egypt.There has never been one instance of bibical history being historical Fact. Need I say more?

well, I am a christian and my parents weren't the ones who brought me to church. Basically, after examining the claims of christianity I believe in the historicity of Jesus Christ and the systematic theology of creation and the purpose of humanity and God's plan in its entirety. I don't believe in it because i think it's better than other religions. I believe in it because I believe it's true. Today, most people subscribe to post-moderism, where you have your truth and i have mine. but that is a non sequitor and oxymoron to the definition of truth. two ideologies cannot both be true, and it's just trying to be politically correct and ending up true to no one when one claims that another can hold to his own truth and both are true. Doubt is the other side of the coin of faith. I believe that the faith of one who doubts is stronger than one who doesn't. blindly believing without thinking results in the absence of doubt. but the beauty of my faith which is a relationship with God through Christ is that it has surpassed bouts of doubt and shone through. Guess the best way i can describe my faith is through the words of G. K Chesterton - “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

Oh.. I am not religious because in my country, most of the people are not religious. I love my family, my friends. When I made a decision, I will ask their opinion about it. any decision that i made will not hurt them, so I donnot need religion to guide my decision.

I was raised in a home where religion and going to church wasn't pushed. If we wanted to go we went. As I got older I fell in love with the Catholic Faith. The beauty of the churches, the whispered prayers, the incense and candles, and of course the pomp and cermony. Although I disagree with the Church on many things: their views on birth control, homosexuality, the role of women in the Church; If I think of going to Church, it would only be a Catholic Church.

I was born a catholic and so I am a catholic. Our country also is one of the catholic country in the world. But whether I am a catholic or any religion, we just go to one creator, our God. I read the bible in the way I like, even not following the guidelines set for. But as I read the bible I realized the sins committed before are the same sins now being committe. But I see to it that I pray everyday, go to church on sundays and days of obligations, and pray the rosary eveyday. I always say thank you for all the blessings I received and my family and say sorry for the sins that i committed for the days that passed.

i love my religious because one reason that my religions will never hert me.

I'm not a religious person at all anymore...I am however spiritual and very much so...What made me follow the path that I do? Nothing "made" me...the basics of my eclectic path I've been following and believing in since I was a very young child (though at that time I had no idea it was an actual path if that makes sense and was actually told repeatedly that I was mentally disturbed etc etc i didnt realize there was a name for it until I was in my 20s and long after I'd left Christianity)...My spiritual path is something thats been with me on one level or another pretty much my whole life...why have I stayed? Because its a part of me..it is deep in my core, my soul etc so its just natural...

I don't believe that I chose my religion, I believe that my Gods chose me to follow them. I suppose I could have said "no", so I guess you could call it a choice, but that would have been like rejecting the kindness they showed me. Perhaps I should begin at the beginning. I chose my religion for two reasons: I had dreams of a particular Goddess, and it was the religion of my great-grandmother, who was one of the very few people who were kind to me as a child. I am a Celtic Reconstructionist Pagan, and I cannot honestly say I have ever doubted my religion, or wished I had made a different choice. I grew up with a lot of different religious influences, and I love to learn about other people's beliefs. There aren't any religions that I believe are innately bad or harmful, and I have respect for people of all religions, and people who have none. But my own faith is the best for me because of the love my Gods have shown me, particularly my primary Goddess who first spoke to me in dreams when I was four years old. I know many people at some point have doubts about their faith, but I can never doubt Her, because She is always here with me.

I grwe up as in a stern christian family, and as i grew up adapted to it and took it's as my own, and now raise my 2 sons the same way I was brought up.

I was given my religion from my family. I was raised that way all my life. I went to private schools and Sunday schools. For me I feel it's best because I personally feel good for what my religion has taught me. I have gone to other places of worship where the beliefs are very similar but I can not change and don't really feel as comfortable with those. Here I have to travel about 30 miles round trip to attend a service of the religion I was raised with. So I do alot of at home prayer the majority of the time.

Im too lazy to do all that religion asks of me. I was born a christian, but since ive been in college the churches around her scare me. People are always loud and jumping, and fainting all over the place, I seriously thought some people were about to die, it was crazy *shivers* can anyone say cult??