RE: Atheists who have converted to theism?
January 5, 2016 at 2:37 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2016 at 2:39 pm by Jehanne.)
(January 5, 2016 at 1:08 pm)*Deidre* Wrote:(January 5, 2016 at 9:17 am)Jehanne Wrote: Assuming that you believe in god, do you also believe that he/she/it answers prayers, that is, is the outcome of some particular event in the future changed as a result of someone praying versus that same individual not praying?
That's a good question. I've always had mixed feelings about others praying over others. For example, when I returned to faith last year, a Christian friend said to me 'I had been praying for you to come back!' And she meant well I wasn't offended or anything, but while I pray now, I view it more as a way for me to connect deeper with God. On a personal level. I don't believe prayers are a laundry list of wants and needs when as I had first viewed them before I left Christianity. I just view my return to faith as a result of a personal faith experience I had last year.
This, of course, gets into the whole question of semantics and what one means by the word "Christian". Neil degrasse Tyson once described himself as being a "Christian" even though he has stated that he is an "atheist". I suppose that there can be "Christian materialists" just as there can be "Christian atheists."
(January 5, 2016 at 2:00 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote: On death, it happens to all no matter what they believe. On the nothingness which follows, nothing is something which you should know cannot hurt you - not when there is no neural activity by which one could feel it.
Well stated. It does not matter what one believes; I, for one, can believe, passionately, that the South won the Civil War. In any case, I think that the point you're making needs to be emphasized by the atheistic community more.
