(December 26, 2015 at 2:44 am)pool Wrote: EP, you don't have to be a former theist to be an atheist.
You just have to be aware of the theistic beliefs enough to reject them to be an atheist.
You're right. I know that. Somehow the conversation got too heated and it made me say some things in spite of not believing them as such, just to annoy some who have insisted on taking issue with me even asking the questions in the OP- or, at least, that's how I saw it. Maybe I was wrong.