Why do Christians become Christians?

[Aroura]

Well, a lot of people around the world who became Christians as adults did so because they were hungry, and a missionary offered them food in exchange for going to mass and at least pretending to convert.  Then, in their desperation for survival and food, they allowed their children to become indoctrinated into Christianity instead of their own cultural religion.  Like, whole continents of Christians came to it this way.  Congratz!

Is that so? There are very few foreign missionaries in China. Why is Christianity growing so fast there? Additionally, Do you think the 15% of Christians who became Christians as adults in the US did so because someone fed them?

Christianity in China did not just now begin.  It began with rice Christians over a century ago.

As to why Christianity is growing there now, it has a lot to do with the people there adopting what they perceive to be "Western Values" in an attempt to be like us.  At the same time, it is mostly the uneducated rural peoples that are adopting Christianity, far more than the educated of their country.  So, why? because it offers them the same lies it offers you.  Life is unfair, but after you die, the magic man in the sky will even the score. Life really is difficult, it's not exactly a difficult lie to sell.

I think the majority of the American adults who become Christians do so, again, because they are seeking comfort in an unfair world.  It's such an easy lie to sell a person who just lost a child, or suffers from addiction issues.
A lot of them come to it after going through substance abuse programs, which offer their own unfair form of adult indoctrination to the emotionally frail and needy people.  It's little short of emotional blackmail.  But Christians are great at making those kind of conversions and then praising Jesus for their growing numbers (even though, worldwide, they are actually shrinking).

How do you account for the 20% or so of Americans who have left Christianity in America int he last few decades, and the even larger percentage doing so in the rest of the western world?