(January 8, 2016 at 2:34 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:(January 8, 2016 at 2:29 pm)athrock Wrote: Which is to say that you, as an individual, have not yet heard a compelling argument for theism. Maybe you never will.
But that is NOT the same thing as saying that compelling arguments do not exist, is it? After all, there are lots of atheists who finally run across the one with their name on it...
No, I have not encountered a compelling reason to believe and neither (by definition) have any other people who are, at this time, atheists. Of course, there are former atheists who found or experienced something that caused them to change their minds. By the same token, there are former theists who now say they saw through the "reasons" they previously had for believing.
Of course.
I suspect that many people who have walked away from a faith position have done so for emotional reasons more often than not.