[malakhi]

An interesting pattern I've noted (in no particular order):

angelo	"convert" to Judaism
allend	convert to Catholicism
steven	convert to nondenominational Christianity
XeniaSt	convert to nondenominational Christianity
The_Reader_David	convert to Orthodox Christianity
Becky	convert to nondenominational Christianity
JHavard	convert to nondenominational Christianity
AlguyA	convert to Catholicism
D-fendr	convert to Catholicism
RnMomof7	convert to Protestantism
tiki	convert to Catholicism

I know I'm missing some people, so speak up and let me know who you are.

5 of the top 7 posters on dignan3's list from Thread 101 are converts to their present faith. Possible reasons?

A. Converts tend to be more informed about their beliefs than are those born into the faith.
B. The "zeal" of the convert.
C. Converts feel a need to justify their conversion.
D. All of the above.

[the808bass]

I know I'm missing some people, so speak up and let me know who you are.

No converting going on over here. Makes me wonder what I'm doing here (my wife has been wondering for quite some time).

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

RE: Post 46:

CGTGOC: Convert BACK to Catholism.

I think that could be said about all converts to Catholism.

And Converts to Protestantism are Conversions AWAY from Catholism.

'Cause if you are of European descent, chances are your forefathers were Catholic.

I guess that might NOT be true if you are of Oriental descent, or southern African, but for the majority of people, at least in America, to convert to Catholism is to convert BACK to the faith of our Forefathers.

Otherwise, I would answer your question: ALL OF THE ABOVE.

[pegleg]

I know I'm missing some people, so speak up and let me know who you are.

I would be classified as a Catholic revert. Raised Catholic through grade school, joined a Southern Baptist Church in junior high, then returned to the Catholic Church when I was in my 20’s. I was a cafeteria Catholic until a few years ago (I'm in my 40's). I guess you could say I've been all over the map.

[al_c]

I know I'm missing some people, so speak up and let me know who you are.

al_c ... convert to Catholicism.

[apologist]

I know I'm missing some people, so speak up and let me know who you are.

I'm not sure the word "conversion" applies; I was baptized in the Catholic Church (which I guess "officially" made me Catholic) and went to church until I was 18. Once I was out of the house (i.e.; not subject to the rules of mom and dad) I stopped going. I never at the time identified with Catholicism and/or Christianity. Only later did I appreciate and accept the Gospel message and now attend a Baptist church. I guess my point is I never felt that I converted from one faith to another. I just adopted one.

5 of the top 7 posters on dignan3's list from Thread 101 are converts to their present faith. Possible reasons?

A. Converts tend to be more informed about their beliefs than are those born into the faith.

I'd pick this one. If by "born into the faith" you mean a child is merely raised by parents to attend a certain church, I think that's largely meaningless. We all must personally "convert", of our own will, regardless of what mom and dad say we are.

[RobbyS]

You can throw me in as a "convert". Although I was baptized as a Catholic as a child, I was reared pretty much as a Protestant until I was past 14, attending a Presbyterian Church for five years before that and I already had an unusual interest in religion.

[D-fendr]

On your chart: I realize and use "convert" as a description, but I don't consider joining the church as a conversion, converting from one thing to another, but as a choice or continuation in the direction or following where I was led. It was not going from one thing to a different thing, converting in that sense. I didn't choose to stop one thing and substitute another in its place.

[cookcounty]

Angelo's List.

"5 of the top 7 posters on dignan3's list from Thread 101 are converts to their present faith"

Do I get partial conversion credit for my wife becoming an evangelical Christian after being raised orthodox Jewish?