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View Poll Results: What were you before deconverting? pick all that apply
Protestant mainstream 22 37.29%
Protestant evangelical 12 20.34%
Catholic 27 45.76%
Orthodox Christian 0 0%
Mormon 1 1.69%
Sunni Muslim 1 1.69%
Shia Muslim 0 0%
Jew 0 0%
Hindu 1 1.69%
Buddhist 2 3.39%
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Old 03-20-2003, 12:16 PM   #1
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Default Former religion before deconverting?

What were you before deconverting?

Protesant, Mainsteam

Protestant, Evangelical

Catholic

Orthodox Christian

Mormon

Muslim, Sunni

Muslim Shia

Jewish

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Old 03-20-2003, 02:24 PM   #2
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People tried to convince me that I was an evangelical Protestant. What I really was was a fucked-up kid who didn't know what to think but knew that evangelical Protestantism was a load of bullshit.
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Ditto, for mainstream Protestant. T'wasn't until I was in my early teens that I actually started thinking about this stuff at all, rather than just accepting the religion surrounding me as a vague background. Didn't take long for the BS detector to light up.
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I attended a Lutheran church for a few years before deciding that organized religion was bunk. This started my path away from religion in general.

I feel strongly now, but I don't leave out the option that my ideas might change about religion in general. I do know that I'll never go back to any "organized" religion. I believe that term is an oxymoron. (Like 'jumbo shrimp' or 'government intelligence' )
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I was a member of the United Church, which is only slightly more religious than the Unitarians. Basically, deconversion for me wasn't that much of a step
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I feel excluded! :boohoo: I can not vote in this pole because I have not turned away from my faith.

Oh well, I guess I will just have to accept the fact that there is no category for people like me. People who seriously study their faith and come to the conclusion that it is true.

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What about "unchurched Christian"? That is, my parents had a generic Christian belief, but despised organized religion, so I never went to church. I think they were Mainstream Protestant-ish when they went to church as kids.

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Old 03-21-2003, 10:08 AM   #8
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Spurly: Cry me a river. I am trying to collect data, not pander to your needs. You exclude us from everything, now feel the bite.
(also, I wonder how deep your "serious study" went. I only had to scratch the surface of protestantism, and the whole edifice came crashing down.

Jamie, I would say that would be mainstream protestant. I'm sorry, the thing only allowed ten choices.

I must say I am surprised so far. keep it coming!
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Oh well, I guess I will just have to accept the fact that there is no category for people like me. People who seriously study their faith and come to the conclusion that it is true.
Surely that category includes all of the:

Muslims who seriously study their faith and come to the conclusion that it is true.
Mormons who seriously study their faith and come to the conclusion that it is true.
Jehovah's Witnesses who seriously study their faith and come to the conclusion that it is true.
Hindus who seriously study their faith and come to the conclusion that it is true.
Jews who seriously study their faith and come to the conclusion that it is true.
New Agers who seriously study their faith and come to the conclusion that it is true.
Pagans who seriously study their faith and come to the conclusion that it is true.

as well, right?
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Old 03-21-2003, 10:42 AM   #10
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I'm also among those who did not have a previous belief system to reject. I was raised by an atheist father and a generically religious mother (who didn't talk about religion). As a kid, when dumbfounded kids would ask my why I don't beleive in god, I'd say, "for the same reason that you do: that's the way I was brought up."

I suppose I'd say I'm involved in the task of validating my atheism now. Not that there's a chance that I'll ever believe in a supernatural being, but the more I read about the claims of christians, what the bible actually says, and how we use religion to justify atrocities, the more confident I become in my atheism.
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