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Lilith: Yes I do. Every single moment of every single hour of every single day (OK; I sleep some 🙂 )

I wrote my faith journey down and it was published in a Catholic magazine over here; Catholic Life but I guess you wouldn’t get it in Kentucky!

I left out that my mum was born a Catholic (Irish) but was orphaned and she had a very bad time with the Nuns who raised her - abused and so forth - and she married outside the Church and I guess she wasn’t too eager for her kids to be raised Catholic because of her own experiences.

My mum became terminally ill and when she was dying I wanted her to receive Viaticum because she had been raised Catholic and received First Holy Communion but my dad and sister opposed me so she died without any sacraments, Anglican or otherwise. That incident planted the seed for my ‘coming home’ to the one, true Church of God.
 
I voted “Other” though I should have voted “Protestant”

Birth - 6: Assemblies of God
6-14: Baptist
14-40: LDS (Mormon)

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Birth to age 7- Church of the Nazarene
age 7 to age 14- agnostic
age 14 to age 19- athiest

When I was 19 I started learning about Catholicism, and the following year, when I was 20, I was baptized at the Easter Vigil. I’ve never been happier.
 
Birth to 16 - Catholic in that I was baptized - but only taken to church once a year at best.

16-24 JW

24-37 Church of Christ, Non Denom Born Again, Evangelical Free, Lutheran

37 till hopefully heaven - Catholic 🙂
 
since I was not baptized, and we never formally attended any particular chuch, I chose “no religion” however we did ‘church hop’ occassionally through some protestant churches.

This last Easter I was baptized and was received into the Catholic Church. 🙂 I’m home.
 
I was raised Methodist, with some church hopping in there too, when I met my Cradle Catholic husband I finally saw my chance to convert. While we were dating and the first year and a half we were married we didn’t really focus on church or on God at all, but we’ve been able to refocus and find our faith together. He hadn’t been confirmed so when I started RCIA he started as well. We had our Marriage blessed and I received my First Holy Communion holding my husband’s hand, a few months later, we were confirmed. Its been a beautiful year for us!

Jamie
 
Cradle Episcopalian convert. Could no longer accept the preaching of many voices, inclusiveness, genderless God perspectives, the contemporary music jams, no Satan, personal prayer God, and the gay agenda.
 
Like some others here, I too have a checkered religious past. We were Episcopalian until my father died when we had a short stint in the Baptist church. From that church we went on to the Assemblies of God, where I spent nearly 20 years of my life, from age 15 to nearly 35 when I returned to the Episcopal church because of the writings of C. S. Lewis and considered becoming an Episcopalian nun. I began to seriously explore the Catholic Church’s teachings about Mary, due to a running interest I’d had in her all my life and after reading Lord of the Rings. I got married instead of becoming a ECUSA nun to a cradle Catholic who never pushed Catholicism on me. We’d been married 5 years when I went through RCIA and was received Easter Vigil of 1989. Since then both my dh and I have become Lay Carmelites, Ancient Observance, as well as becoming deeply involved in the Knights of Columbus. We are happy in our faith and feel we are truly at home in the Catholic Church.
 
Protestant isn’t a religion. It’s a denomination within Christianity…just like Catholicism. I’m Catholic, but I’m a Catholic Christian. People are always getting this confused. To say that your religion is Catholicism is to say that it’s something other than Christianity.
 
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Stu:
To be specifc, I was Lutheran with a fundamentalist streak (even read Jack Chick.) Thank the Lord for bringing me home.
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There are folks out there that think Jack is a hopeless liberal, you should read some of their stuff. Its a kick.
 
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bigdad:
Protestant isn’t a religion. It’s a denomination within Christianity…just like Catholicism. I’m Catholic, but I’m a Catholic Christian. People are always getting this confused. To say that your religion is Catholicism is to say that it’s something other than Christianity.
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Bigdad, I love this particular argument. Anytime someone approaches me and say’s “What religion are you?” I always say “Christian!”.

Q: “I mean where do you go to Church?”
A: “OH! Well why didn’t you ask that in the first place?”

God Bless
 
Baptist for the first 21 years of my life, Episcopalian for 5, Catholic for nearly 17.
 
I’m a retread. I went to Protestant sects for 27 adult years. It was two Baptist preachers, countless Protestant theological errors, the Bible and the Holy Spirit that led me back accross the Tiber river and home to Rome.😃

Praise GOD!
 
Born and raised Unitarian; attended church off and on til I was 21. I can’t say I was devout - there didn’t seem to be anything to be devout about, unless it was liberal politics.

Agnostic (in the sense of believing there was a Creator, but it wasn’t interested in me) 8 years.

Then was informally adopted by Sioux, and shared their spirituality until I was 36.

I had a conversion experience; then had an uncomfortable experienced with a “non-denominational” church which split. The half I stayed with began to show rabid homophobic tendancies. I left.

Generic protestant until November. I got Bible study software, wanting to study intensively so that I could find out what I believed, and then find a church that matched. The software comes with access to a discussion board.

A couple of months ago, someone posted a virulent anti-Catholic message, borrowed from Jack Chick and his little friends. I knew it was a bunch of lies, and decided to rebut the post with what Catholics really believed. So I researched…

Came to CA, and read the library article about the Chick tracts - and found myself saying, “Yeah! That’s what I believe!” several times. So I did more research.

Prayed about it, and wrestled with my prejudices. I was given grace about the magisterium and Apostolic Tradition. I was going round and round with myself about it (having been well founded in sola scriptura), and suddenly, poof, my doubts were gone.

Then, my DH (a fallen-away cradle Catholic) came to me and said, somewhat hesitantly, “I’ve decided to return to the Catholic church,” and was pleasantly surprised to hear me say, “Great! When do we start?”

We start RCIA in September.

I fondly refer to my copy of the Catechism as “my Cataclysm.”
 
Baptized presbyterian. Confirmed Anglican/Episcopal. Received into the Catholic Church Easter Vigil 05.
 
Looks like about 85% were protestant or nothing. Also, I know of quite a few who were protestant ministers. Apparently a good knowledge of Church History leads to the Catholic Faith. How do the results fit with your expectation?
 
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bigdad:
Protestant isn’t a religion. It’s a denomination within Christianity…just like Catholicism.
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Just one small point, the Catholic Church is not a denomination; denominations are branches. The Catholic Church is the truck, the Church which Jesus Christ founded, from which the others split.

God Bless.
 
**I was raised Assembly of God.

I fell away from the A/G in my teens. Well my mother still made me go to church, but I had so many questions.

Then when in college, I met a friend. She couldn’t afford to go home for thanksgiving…so I invited her to have dinner with my family. She declined because she was serving dinner to the homeless that day.
I continued meeting people who were giving of themselves to others. I knew these people were christians…but not a one of them tryed to push their religion at me, or tell me everything that I was doing wrong. They just simply lived their faith. Finially I asked what church they belonged to…They were all Catholic! I just had to be a part of that. So, to my family’s dismay, I went to RCIA classes and became Catholic in 1994. I am so glad I did!!!

Elora
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