Have you ever converted to a different religion?

[SummerChild]

Originally posted by Ideal08
Then I got to college and met a guy who is a Hebrew Israelite. All these years, he and I have communicated and debated each other, or even just listened, about religion. I don't know a lot about it, but he's sending me stuff in the mail about it soon. After having the conversation with him, I just wondered how many people actually covert to different religions or even denominations. I am SO grounded in my faith that at times it's hard for me to even THINK about the idea of another religion. But I like to learn about them, still: how they are the same and how they are different. It's just really interesting

Skee Wee Soror!
Nice topic. My parents are Israelites and I was actually raised in this way but now do not consider myself to be a follower of any religion. It was very tough being raised this way as the entire US is basically Christian - no Halloween parties, no Christmas (or Christmas gifts), no Easter, no pork (so I was a tiny child trying to figure out whether I could eat the lunch at school b/c I didn't know whether it had pork or pork products such as lard in it). It was also kind of rough in high school b/c I made the pom pom and flag teams (b/c I was fly like that - LOL) but had to quit both b/c the Sabbath would go from Friday night to Saturday night which is of course when all of the basketball (pom pom performances) and football (flag team performances) would occur.

When I got older, I began to think of things more spiritually and really found that I did not believe that it mattered what day of the week you worshipped or what name you called your Higher Being by, that G-D looks at your heart, and all of the other formalistic rules of different religions was really less important. As a result, I can go and worship G-D at church, at a temple, at a mosque b/c at base to me, everyone is basically saying the same thing. So I converted from being an Israelite to not being in any religion. These days I work on getting my heart right and communing with G-D and that's it.

SC