(January 29, 2016 at 11:33 am)Old Baby Wrote:(January 29, 2016 at 11:22 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: How do you know he was led by emotions? It doesn't say anything about any sort of bad experience he has with religion that made him this way. He just sounds like a very skeptical person.
"...was not a very pleasant man by his own admission. He was an avowed atheist and very hostile to every form of religion and those who practiced it. He would often use rage to control everyone around him and he didn't find joy in anything..."
That's not the description of a regular joe who just concludes that there's no rational reason to believe in God. This describes someone who was hostile to the very notion of a supernatural deity and toward everyone who disagreed with him. This is often how Christians who convert from "atheism" describe themselves. He sounds more like a person who was either afraid/in denial or someone who hated religion because of something from their past.
The short testimonial is only a fraction of the book, and I don't know what he was like before this experience and there is no way to know his past without meeting him, and even then one could assume he's lying about his past. I don't think he is. The point was that he was an atheist, and it was the personal experience for him, that changed him. It wasn't an evangelical proselytizing him showing him the bible or something like that. This was a complete 180 degree transformation. This is why I'm sharing his story.
