Ask a former Christian

[T.J.]

Hello!

So while you were a firm believer, did you ever encounter arguments against God, and did you encounter atheists, and what did you think of them?

Plenty, though never in person. A couple months after getting a computer with internet in 2005 I joined a discussion forum that had a lot of liberals and atheists and the occasional conservative religious person, be them Catholic, Mormon, or whatever, and they debated these things all the time. I actually learned a lot more about Evolution through that instead of the usual misinformation spread in Churches.

Then there were your usual Leviticus and Deuteronomy passages they'd cite to showcase how fucked up God's law really is, and of course I can't count how many times they asked why we're being held responsible for Eve eating a fruit that God put there in the first place.

I always saw them as normal people. My thoughts went from "You're wrong," to "Okay, I can't dispute that," to "I can't counter any of your arguments, so I'm not going to try." Basically, they helped me go from Hardcore Christian > Apologist > Fuck it, you guys were right.

Not exclusively on that forum, mind you. I've been to multiple sites that had plenty of atheists fighting the good fight.

Hello ...
Did god ever speak to you?
Did he make any of your prayers come true?

Welcome...

1.) No.
2.) They had like a 50/50 probability of coming true, and I can't remember anything I prayed for.