Has anyone discovered a successful way to make religious people atheist?

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I would think religion would be a deeply held belief no? If it's not, if your a "weekend" theist then your probably on your way to atheism anyway.

And you don't think arguing with "non-weekend" theist about their theism, be it civil or even lighthearted, doesn't qualify as an attack on a deeply held belief?

If your casually theistic your not broadcasting it, your probably not paying any attention to it. Therefore you probably don't come into any encounters where you have to defend it, or if you do you probably don't care much to defend it.

However if your not the above I think cognitive dissonance is in play.

Im just giving you my 2 cents. No matter the person, if they feel threatened they'll usually react defensively. In harmony with you OP, I strongly believe that any theist, strong or weak, needs to feel like they're not under attack

But what's an attack? This is going to be very simplistic cause my brain is getting sleepy.

If person A says "you know an orange is an apple."

and person B says "actually an orange is an orange, see here is an orange and here is an apple. You can see they are different."

person A says "Stop attacking my beliefs!"

Is that really person's B's fault for making person A feel under attack?