And where did you convert from?
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Your post assumes a rather more digital all in , all out view Of conversion than is the case, at least for me.
I am a convert from Anglican, but therein is a complex story.
As a childhood Anglican, my first experience of Catholicism was seeing a film and reading a book on Bernadette, and there began a passion for our lady that never really left me.
But the journey from there was hardly straight line!
It involved various evangelical groups whose rabid attacks on organised church dogma, appeared at first sight to be true , but after being swept along, there were massive holes in their own dogma, and for me logical was important! I couldn't understand why they disagreed with each other so much, and why it was none of their own rituals e.g. " asking Jesus into your life" had straightforward biblical underpinning, when they professed to be bible Christians.
Ultimately I drifted away.
The candle never blew out.
Once in a while I would pick up a book to look for reassurance, but I was unlucky in what libraries had to offer, planted no doubt by heathen or protestan librarians - take " the myth and cult of Mary" by marina warner, may she rot in hell! A true hatchet job!
Then something strange happened, by this time I was deep into physics professionally, and far from building a shrink god of the gaps mentality, it had the reverse effect on me. The paradoxes of Quantum physics , and study of philosophy of science proved to me it was all just a model, so what I originally thought explained life and the universe, actually explained nothing at all.
I read writings of saints, which I loved, and how I wished it was all true.
I tripped over a copy of Rome sweet home and pieces fell into place, then increasingly other apologists. But on a negative note, cradle Catholics seemed unable to answer questions on why thebelieve what they do! Those from outside seem to have better grasp of apologetics.
I began studying evidence of some miracles, and I could not find scientific holes in many of them, my library on them runs to several book cases!
I would creep into mass once in a while, and I felt a presence there, reinforced even more in exposition. I was amazed that there was wall to wall scripture in the mass , when the services of so called bible Christians had almost none!
Mother Angelica, EWTN and" journey home" felt like home - I still watch journey home to thus day,
I could stay outside no longer, I went to a local priest, who took me through RCIA but reckoned I knew almost all of what I needed.
Then over a decade ago in my mid forties I came home.
But that's not really the day of conversion, I was certain long before that!
It just took me 30 years to confirm as an adult what I instinctively knew to be true as a kid, watching a film, when I was 8
rotestant non-denomination
