(January 8, 2016 at 2:38 pm)athrock Wrote:(January 8, 2016 at 2:34 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: No, I have not encountered a compelling reason to believe and neither (by definition) have any other people who are, at this time, atheists. Of course, there are former atheists who found or experienced something that caused them to change their minds. By the same token, there are former theists who now say they saw through the "reasons" they previously had for believing.
Of course.
I suspect that many people who have walked away from a faith position have done so for emotional reasons more often than not.
Yes, as opposed to all of those theists who believe on largely rational grounds.