At what age did you realize your current religious beliefs?

[Tuck!]

I am an agnostic and I have been since I was 15, before that I was a Lutheran simply because my parents were.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I converted to atheism when I was 16.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

18

[Tuck!]

18

What do you identify as if you don't mind me asking?

[Bo]

I was Jewish ever since I was born, but I really began to explore some aspects of it further when I became a teenager. I'm still not very religious, though.

[Deldem]

I stopped going to church when I was 15 or 16.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

25, when I was saved - I was reading the book of Galatians alone in my apartment and God opened my eyes and I believed and received the Holy Spirit and a commission from God.

[Tuck!]

25, when I was saved - I was reading the book of Galatians alone in my apartment and God opened my eyes and I believed and received the Holy Spirit and a commission from God.

What, in particular, brought about this revelation to you, if you don'tmind?

I'm very interested in religion, fwiw.

[useful idiot]

21

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

18

What do you identify as if you don't mind me asking?

I'm a liberal Protestant, nominally Lutheran but leaning more and more towards non-denominational.

[Gustaf]

Hard to tell. I left atheism when I was 10 but didn't really self-identify as a Christian until I turned 18.

[John Dibble]

Some time during my early college years. I was already pretty much an agnostic atheist in high school though, I just was more apathetic about religion in general and didn't think about it much.

[fezzyfestoon]

I didn't really "realize" them, I just never put much weight in the concept of religious beliefs to begin with.

[k-onmmunist]

Raised an atheist by my father. Decided he was right.

[Boris]

2003 NLCS game 6

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

25, when I was saved - I was reading the book of Galatians alone in my apartment and God opened my eyes and I believed and received the Holy Spirit and a commission from God.

What, in particular, brought about this revelation to you, if you don'tmind?

I'm very interested in religion, fwiw.

Sure thing.  My testimony of the events surrounding my conversion can be found at the following links:


http://www.uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=97314.15

http://www.uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=28148.60

http://www.uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=82468.15

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=33859.msg765796#msg765796

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

At 7, one side I had the school/dinosaurs magazine version, on the other side the Catholic catechism version of creation, the school/dinosaurs magazines made more sense to me, also this kind of invisible stuff you can enter in contact with, I tried but always founded it weird, anyhow since that age I never stopped to go in the same direction, with a bit more depths...

EDIT: Oh sorry, I answered in the sense of my 'non-religious beliefs'.

[Free Palestine]

Throughout my whole life, I had an aversion to religion and a distaste for the idea that there's a god.  My parents never indoctrinated me into any religion.  I guess I've always been an agnostic-atheist.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

15-16, I'd say.

[phk]

No idea.

It's a lot more gradual.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior at the young age of 4 years old in late 1986.  I was a very intelligent toddler having the brains of a third grader by my 4th birthday and nearly that of a high schooler by age 6.  So, I was 4 years old when I realized who God is and who He wanted me to be.  I actually surrendered to preach at 6 years of age in 1988, so that shows just how far along in my faith I was.  In fact my pastor at the time said he didn't know of too many adults that had the maturity of faith as I had even before my 7th birthday.

[Joe Republic]

Not sure exactly, but then who could possibly define the exact age at which they become able to think logically and rationally?

[patrick1]

At 7, one side I had the school/dinosaurs magazine version, on the other side the Catholic catechism version of creation, the school/dinosaurs magazines made more sense to me, also this kind of invisible stuff you can enter in contact with, I tried but always founded it weird, anyhow since that age I never stopped to go in the same direction, with a bit more depths...

EDIT: Oh sorry, I answered in the sense of my 'non-religious beliefs'.

Quick point: The Catholic Church is not and has not been "creationist" for quite some time. 

[Tuck!]

Not sure exactly, but then who could possibly define the exact age at which they become able to think logically and rationally?

More often than not, one's religious beliefs transform somewhat over time. I am interested in hearing about the age forumers came to realize the beliefs they currently hold. Nothing about these beliefs, of course, is obligated to be in any way logical or rational. Hell, I'm not even sure if my own beliefs are logical or rational.

[dead0man]

I stopped going to church when I was 20 (and stopped going regularly at 18), but I'd like to think my religious beliefs are still ...ahem....evolving.