I come across a growing number of former jihadist terrorists who have rejected their past and converted to Christianity. Likewise I have come across a growing number of Jews who have come to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.
Firstly, of course, where exactly do you
'come across' all these former jihadist terrorists AB?
But on the broader inference that increasingly people from non-christian religions are converting to christianity I'm struggling to work out whether your assertion is based on confirmation bias, a failure to recognise that anecdote doesn't necessarily equate to reality, wishful thinking, delusion to plain old lying. But what I can say is that your claims certainly don't seem to based on any credible evidence.
So AB, I think you are a UK based catholic. So let's start there (although the data for other major christian denominations in the UK shows a a similar pattern). So it may be that you fixate on the person in your church that used to be a muslim or a jew - but that is, of course, only half of the story. You'll probably not notice (or don't want to recognise) the other half of the story, namely those who used to be in your church but have now left, whether to other religions or have become non religious.
Helpfully there is credible research on this (mainly chapter 3):
https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/research/centres/benedict-xvi/docs/2018-feb-contemporary-catholicism-report-may16.pdfSo just 0.4% (or 1 in 250) of current catholics are converts from a non christian religion. So your claimed muslim (let alone former jihadist terrorist) convert and your claimed jewish converts are as rare as hen's teeth.
But you also need to look at conversion the other way - in other words former catholics who are now adherents of none christian religions. This is 1% of former catholics, but you also have to factor in that only 55% of people brought up as catholics remain catholic. So putting those two together for every 1 convert from a non christian religion to catholicism there are about 4.5 converts from catholicism to non christian religions. So the evidence hardly backs up your inference.
But, actually conversion between religions is rare, likewise conversion from non religious to religious. What is extremely common is conversion from catholicism to being non religious. Indeed 37% of people brought up catholic 'convert' to being non religious, while just 0.9% of current catholics were previously non religious.
So for every one of your claimed converts from non christian religions to catholicism there are 4.5 converts the other way. And for every convert of a non religious person to catholicism there are 67 converts from catholicism to non religion.
But being charitable perhaps you just don't notice any of those converts away from catholicism as they are simply missing from your church, while all the time fixating on those tiny, tiny numbers of converts from other non christian religions.
