ieyeasu

Dad's never been stronger in faith than a deist since I've been alive, so religion was never stressed in my family. I remember going to church with my grandparents thinking "They know its just a story, right?"

I tried to be a Christian right around my freshman year in highschool--but found myself forcing myself to believe in god. So I dropped it, and admitted my full fledged atheism.

Evolutionist

do we know someone who went from strong atheism (not "oh, i'm not sure" agnosticism, but strong "you've got to be kidding" atheism) to theism? i'd be interested to find out, as i find it easy to imagine someone going from theism to atheism, but not atheism to theism. i'm sure it happens (ok, i know it happens), but i find it harder to imagine.

PopeInTheWoods

Theologically accredited?!? Is that anything like astrologically accredited or alchemically accredited?

Calype

In this post i'm responding to a variety of comments stated in various posts.



Well, as Heathen Dawn stated below, ex-theists can offer first-hand experienced knowledge as to what theists believe and why they believe it. Well...if not all, some knowledge, then.



Well, I agree, it offers insight on "what makes theists tick", but as far as "deconvert"-ing them, I very much disagree. It reverts back to the golden rule. (Treat people as you want to be treated) Would you want some theist knocking on your door trying to convert you? Or would you even want any theist attempting to convert you at all?




Well, I wouldn't say being an atheist all your life would mean you cannot comprehend how they believe what they believe. I too am a "lifelong" atheist and I can understand perfectly fine how they are so gullible in their beliefs. Most of it is ignorance, illogic, and fear. Well, i'd say I have somewhat of a upperhand(?) than you do. I willingly take active part in a church. Lately though, I haven't been going to it because the people have started to annoy me greatly, so now, i'm moving from church to church (my friends' churches that is) and asking each pastor questions. Sort of like an interview, I suppose.


Haha, we seem to have something in common. When my age has been mentioned they usually say things like "When you have your own family, car, house, and pay taxes, we'll talk then." It does become quite a bother. Now, I usually just state "Age is irrelevant when it comes to knowledge. Ever heard of child genuises?".

Heh, a guess of 40-50? I usually get 25-35. I've been told i'm mature. Not all the time though. For me, I guess it just depends on if i'm with my friends or not.

Evolutionist

Calype:

yeah, i'm just an old fart...

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sign of the cross:


found a question i missed earlier:

hmm... let me see:

week long creation
global flood
virgin birth
water into wine etc (what a waste of omni potence)
resurrection

and many others.

lets face it- the idea that a god came down from heaven, impregnated some lass who went on to give birth to a deity which was a thrid of the deity that impregnated her (my head hurts already), who then went on to perform various petty miracles throughout his life before being crucified, and rising from the dead 3 days later and buggering off to heaven to live happily ever after. that story is hard to swallow. period.