Hello everyone! Just like Marius, I was baptised in the Orthodox Church of Romania when I was very young, so I didn't need to convert.
I knew a priest, from my city (Bucharest), who is probably the best priest I've ever met, and I was helping him inside the altar, so I spent a lot of time in the church some years ago. I was dressing in some special clothes and helped him with candles and holding his books, etc. But this is not so important.
I am member on another big forum (100,000+ members) since 2005, and I was very surprised by the number of atheists there, which seem to be 70% of the members. There was a time really not wrong ago when I was spiritually confused, being afraid by what's going to be after death, etc.
On that forum however, in the Off-Topic section, a certain category of threads, "Ask a...." threads, are very popular. And I was browsing through one of those threads, "Ask a Muslim". In there was a guy from the USA who labeled himself as "fundamental Muslim". He started every post of his with "Hello, Brother [user name]". I was extremely pleased by his view on the world, tolerance and everything. This lighted up in me a certain wish of tolerance, good will, and religion. I was then browsing through the Internet trying to convince me not all the forums are dominated by atheists. One of the results of my serches led me here, and I am convinced that not all forums are dominated by atheists. On that forum, I am a hunted minority, everyone is mocking me and laughing at my belief. So here I am. I have hope that the world is not going to lose the greatest thing it still has: religion. And I am willing to post and dedicate a certain part of my time to prove this.
After finding this forum I was looking through this topic and I found it extremely interesting so I decided to make my first post here.
I have never labeled myself as anything else than an Eastern Orthodox Christian, however as I mentioned above there have been times when I was not so sure of the truth. Now I am, and I hope this will last for the rest of my life. (you can see I am very young, for this kind of forum especially)
About myself: my name is Mircea (male!); I am from Bucharest, Romania (and I proudly say it's one of the most Eastern Orthodox countries in the world, being the country with the highest percent of Christians in Europe); I am 15 years old, which I think is young for this kind of forum, and have always been a religious person, even though in the past year I had some unfounded doubts about Christianity. I can only hope God will forgive me. Fortunately I went past this period, for ever, I hope. Maybe God took care of me.
This forum seems a very nice place. Maybe sometime, I'll be active here.
