Has anyone discovered a successful way to make religious people atheist?

[Rhondazvous]

I don't think I have any negative feelings over trying to convert people to atheism. I find religiosity annoying, the thought of converting someone to atheism gives me joy.

It sort of makes me wonder how the first people to ever start religions like christianity or islam did it. Whether it was some charles manson esq figure, who actually had so much charisma that he was able to get people to follow him. Or if it was imposed by people who believed they could control others through threatening people with the punishment of god. Either way, someone was insane and manipulative enough to start cult religions like Christianity. I'm sure there's many people who just developed religion because it's the human mind's natural defense mechanism for explaining things they can't understand, to insert a supernatural meaning.

There’s a difference between a convert and someone who comes to the conclusion that religion isn’t based on reason.

I was a Christian for 25 years. Nobody converted me. Many people planted seeds. But I had to have enough honesty and integrity to examine those seeds.

A convert is a turncoat. Someone who makes an instant decision based on some charismatic speaker or successful conversion method.

Watching a theist become an atheist is a joy, but if it’s real, it has to be the end of a long journey, a slowly increasing sense of cognitive dissonance.