Writer's Block: Conversion Rate
Writer's Block
Have you ever considered converting to another religion?
I've not only considered it, I've done it. As noted elsewhere in this LJ (which I haven't updated in far too long), I was raised in a mainstream Protestant Christian denomination, underwent baptism, served as a church organist for several years, joined Young Life in high school. etc.
Then I went off to college, and started seriously questioning a lot of the ideas I'd been raised with, the religious ones among them. And it turns out that I had some serious problems with the Christian worldview. After several years of self-examination, research, reflection, and investigation of what for me turned out to be spiritual dead-ends, I wound up Heathen. This does not mean that I've stopped the process of questioning - as several folks on my f-list can attest, I'll still point out issues, absurdities, and contradictions even if they're ones I profess... :D
Have you ever considered converting to another religion?
I've not only considered it, I've done it. As noted elsewhere in this LJ (which I haven't updated in far too long), I was raised in a mainstream Protestant Christian denomination, underwent baptism, served as a church organist for several years, joined Young Life in high school. etc.
Then I went off to college, and started seriously questioning a lot of the ideas I'd been raised with, the religious ones among them. And it turns out that I had some serious problems with the Christian worldview. After several years of self-examination, research, reflection, and investigation of what for me turned out to be spiritual dead-ends, I wound up Heathen. This does not mean that I've stopped the process of questioning - as several folks on my f-list can attest, I'll still point out issues, absurdities, and contradictions even if they're ones I profess... :D