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I've actually written an article on precisely that subject. You can read it here if you'd like.

The short answer is: reading the history of Christianity, particularly the writings of the Church Fathers.

EDIT: Hijacking my own top comment to say that I had a lot of fun with this last night, but now I'm at work and the comments are coming in way faster than I can get to them (and a lot more of them are trolls). So, there's a good chance that I will either be quite slow in commenting, or stop altogether. However, I do still plan on answering the more serious questions later on today. Thanks to everyone who commented!

Admitting I was wrong. Haha. That, and giving up a lot of bad habits.

My advice would be to pray, a lot - and to find a good community of believers.

It's changed my outlook on life tremendously. As I mentioned above, before I became Catholic, I didn't really have a basis for believing in objective truth, morality, or meaning. That alone has done a lot to alter my perspective. I also view myself much differently now. Becoming a Christian forced me to undergo a lot of introspection, and I quickly realized that much of what I had been doing thus far in my life was seriously immoral.

To me, one of the most exhilarating aspects of Christianity is Christ's call to perfection. The quest to, with God's grace, become a Saint has become the single most exciting journey of my entire life.

And to answer your second question, I consider myself a practicing Catholic - and I'll keep practicing until I get it right. (;

These are all valid critiques, I won't deny it. There's a good chance that I am indeed simply a prideful person, and that I don't really know who I am without basing it on what I believe.

However, one of the main reasons I decided to post this is that I have often felt bad that one of the most well-known things I've ever done is mock the God I now worship. I mean, you search my name on Google, and this is what comes up. I wanted to at least let it be known that the same guy who did that has since repented.

Yeah, pretty metal, huh? \m/