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Has anyone discovered a successful way to make religious people atheist?
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RE: Has anyone discovered a successful way to make religious people atheist?
For someone like me that is transitioning as we speak, it really is an individual process. One of my biggest struggles personally is stepping back and looking at things from an outsiders perspective. Not just how I have viewed things the first 28 years of my life. But its extremely difficult to continually be honest with myself. But I also believe in micromanaging almost everything I take in. Every quote, every study, every fact I read I like to vet. For example, I remember when someone used this quote by Socrates to express how people have always been saying the same things about how the world is getting worse, “The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.” At first I thought it was a good point. But then I did some research into and found that it can't really be verified. So it was not that big of a deal, but its just one of those things that I personally believe shows how important it is for us to actually dig into things to a level that we can truly understand what we're digesting.

My biggest gripe with atheist is that they don't have empathy when trying to debate things with theists. They don't have any obligation to, but if you have the goal to make someone think then you have to remember that its a human trait to dismiss something sensical just merely because you don't like the messenger. And atheist are prone to the exact same human qualities.

Also, I think every theist probably has their own specific pressure point. For me, it was learning that the exodus and Joshua stories were greatly fabricated.
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RE: Has anyone discovered a successful way to make religious people atheist? - by Won2blv - April 10, 2016 at 12:54 am

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