Is It Wrong to Change Your Religion?

It's perfectly fine to change religion or chose not to have one, i haven't even belonged to any religion until i was 16, and at the age of 22 figured out that i don't really agree with any religion, so i'm now an atheist. i don't think it's fair for the parents to make a choice of religion for the child in the first place, everyone should be able to choose what he/she thinks is best. I've seen many people who got sent to cathlic schools by their parents and graduated from the schools atheist because they didn't agree with what they were tought in school. People should always think for themselves and do what they think is right, it's the only way people could be trully happy

Hi staraevp, If everyone believed that we should stay the same religion into which we were born, and respected each other, we would certainly have a more peaceful world. The fact is of course, no one should ever try to choose for another and when we become adults should be allowed to choose for ourselves without any interference. Blessings.

the religion of your parents is not neccessarily the right religion for you religion is a personal thing and cant just be passed down if you stick to the religion you were born into simply because you were born into it then you are nothing but a sheep just following the flock

ITS DEFINETELY WRONG, Why? because god wanted you to be born in that religion, and its your duty to complete in that religion, its like your mother, god wanted you to be born to this mother, so you get born within her, likewise, religion is always same type. Whatever be the reason, you cant change your mother, likewise dont change religion

Change Religion is rights of each person because nothing who can force of person on a religion. since birth until this time, I am embraces Islam religion.

changing of religion is not wrong,but it must not be by force,for love or any human needs,or by not fully understanding ur own religion, religions are all same juice in different glasses,by any way u can drink it but it is the mind saying 'wow tht is the nice glass i ever seen'.

Religion is a personal choice.Your parents chose their religion and want their children to follow it but if you don't feel like it is for you,then you have the right to change religions or even not to have a religion at all.You should respect your parents, I mean when you say you are converting you shouldn't demean their beliefs ,just say their religion isn't for you.Let's face it,if you stay with a religion Just to please your parents, you aren't really a believer,You aren't connected like you should be,so wouldn't it be a waste of time?

You can't change your religion. Any religion you choose to follow, which may change many times throughout your life, is always your religion.

I do believe that the religion my family taught me is the right one. If it were not and I found truth in another, I hope I would have the courage to make the change. I must say, though, that I'm convinced that what I believe - that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God - is the truth.

It is not wrong to change one's religion if we come to understand tha the religion we are in is not the right one. Let's say we are born into a religion where murder is acceptable and through reason we come to believe that murder is wrong then I do not see any wrongness in changing religion. I would see it as the right thing to do, as I could not want to be part of that religion anymore. In the Bible we have an example of someone changing religion, the apostle Paul. When he saw the wrongness of his religion of birth, he changed and accepted Christianity. I would do the same!

I am very devoted to my Catholic faith and declared my loyalty since the day I know how to make sign of the cross. I have deep trust in my faith and truly believes on it, no doubts and no hesitation, so I never dreamed-not even in my wildest dream-to switch or change religion. For as long as I lived up to my last breath I will remain faithful and loyal to my Catholic religion. Catholic religion is everything I want in my life and nothing more. But for other people who plan to switch religion, make sure first that you have a very specific reason why you change. Salvation is not confined to one religion, it is deep within, it depends on us how we are able to save, so if you are hopping in to one religion from another in order to be saved, you are going to court disaster, for salvation is depend in ourselves and religion is merely to guide us and help us reconcile with God.

One cannot say it is wrong to change one's religion.[B] It would only be unnecessary.[/B] All paths lead to the same God. Often, people change religion because of some perceived gain, or because they never understood the religion of their birth, or worse still misunderstood it. Any religion and every religion is just one convenient way the people in one contiguous area (in good old days) found to relate to "something beyond their wildest imagination" which was called as God. They wanted to relate to this "Super-ordinate Being" as a solace and as an answer to the inexplicable cares of the world.I believe that the choice of my birth and path was made by God, because I believe in the wisdom of The One.

In my opinion, there is no "right" religion. I mean, seriously...How can there be so many religions with only ONE being right? In one way or another, we all worship the "Creator". Religion is an intimate, personal choice. Just because my parents practice one religion, doesn't mean that I have to follow them. We each have to find our own paths in life. God wants us to make our own choice to follow Him.

Listen to the advice of others but WALK YOUR OWN PATH!! Isn't a child supposed to become more than that which was taught to them by parents????

i dont think so, if you're not what you think from your's then find another you think is better then i think it's ok to switch. my son changed his and to me it's not a big deal really because he's still worshipping god