Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?

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I think it's unlikely a sceptic atheist would ever become religious. But a non-sceptic who hasn't been raised religious could have a series of events, including some major life changing ones, which lead them to credit the local deity.

Even a sceptic could have an event so traumatising that it actually alters their brain, so that they become vulnerable to the emotional pull. We're all surrounded by religious mythology, and all it takes is for a crack to appear and it will all seep in.

So in my opinion, it's emotion/indoctrination versus logic. Also, there may well be some cases of conversions which are pragmatic pretense. (Prisons spring to mind.)