Are you still the same religion you were raised in?

United States
September 27, 2012 2:25am CST
I was raised Pentecostal Christian. I am still a Christian but am more of a different denomination. I can see that is not a total change in religion but it did change my convictions. I have many reasons why I changed. I decided to change at the age of fifteen to sixteen. Did you change religion? If you did at what age? Please mention the country you live in if possible. Thank you.
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• United States
20 Oct 12
I'm here in the U.S. and I am not the religion my parents deemed me to be as a baby. I do believe I was my current religion at birth I just couldn't express it. When I was growing up we didn't go to church . so I got to think freely about religion. at the age of 17 I chose to be Jewish. But looking back I feel I was born a Jew but just didn't know it!
@katie0 (5203)
• Japan
3 Oct 12
Definitely not. I think more than half of the things I was thought I analyzed and threw away and I've very glad cause otherwise with the education and the beliefs that was put on me I don't think I would have studied religions, found mine, become Vegan, feminist and all those things, I think I would had been very submissive to man and other things if I didn't start to think for myself.
• Thailand
27 Sep 12
I was raised in an evangelical Christian home but developed a lot of questions in my late teens. At age eighteen I became a Buddhist and remain so to this day. I was born and grew up in the United States but have lived in Thailand for the last seventeen years.
@urbandekay (18278)
27 Sep 12
I was raised in the Anglican tradition, these days I am somewhere between Baptists and Quakers both of which I attend all the best urban
@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
28 Sep 12
I was raised Lutheran,Wisconsin Synod. The most strict and closed minded synod of the Lutheran religion! I am still a Christian but I don't practrice being a Lutheran. I believe in what I believe after having a long trip down the road to get where i am today. It has been a long journey but I am at peace in what I believe in now!
@aejey322 (1004)
• Philippines
27 Sep 12
I was baptized as Roman Catholic here in the Philippines. And I am still a Catholic until now. Though I have also attended several services from other Christian churches, and I get to like their teachings. My husband is a Catholic too so to keep away from any conflicts, I still remained as Catholic. Religion is not really that vital for me. As long as you have faith in God, you will still have a fruitful spiritual life.
@fatlex06 (895)
• Philippines
27 Sep 12
Hi. I was raised as a Roman Catholic. I'm from Philippines. But I experienced attending other religions ministry. My mom is in seek of the truth and she finds that being a Catholic doesn't really satisfy her craveness for the truth. There are some things that she believes into and don't believe in Catholic teachings. She became a Christian too and many more. But now she sticks being an Iglesia Ni Cristo here in Philippines. I can say that this is really the religion that she's looking for. But us, her family, remains in our religion from what we were raised. I'm cool with whatever my mom likes to do and wherever she's happy. She told me she started to search for the truth at the age of 18.