RE: Ex-"New Atheist", Now Christian
April 19, 2013 at 7:13 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2013 at 7:16 pm by Ryantology.)
Welcome to the forum.
Forgive my sounding rude but this conversion story comes across as calculated and false. If you were an atheist, then you could not have been an atheist who places much value in rationality, reason, or logic if a single event made you discard all of that, arbitrarily pick a deity, and take at face value all of the unoriginal and baseless assertions it makes. I suspect very strongly that you have always been a Christian and that you are simply more aware of atheist viewpoints than most. If your story is true, it is very sad and regrettable.
If that sounds mean and unfair, well, we have a fair number of Christians here and they make the same claim in the hopes that it somehow legitimizes their 'present' belief system.
Forgive my sounding rude but this conversion story comes across as calculated and false. If you were an atheist, then you could not have been an atheist who places much value in rationality, reason, or logic if a single event made you discard all of that, arbitrarily pick a deity, and take at face value all of the unoriginal and baseless assertions it makes. I suspect very strongly that you have always been a Christian and that you are simply more aware of atheist viewpoints than most. If your story is true, it is very sad and regrettable.
If that sounds mean and unfair, well, we have a fair number of Christians here and they make the same claim in the hopes that it somehow legitimizes their 'present' belief system.
