(January 18, 2018 at 7:08 pm)Banned Wrote: Atheism is attempting self hypnosis, it is trying to convince oneself of something.
Nope. In my case it was simple incredulousness: "You believe what?" I never had to convince myself that I didn't believe. In my younger years I tried to cultivate religious belief, and that failed because I knew up front that I was trying to convince myself of things that I viewed as absurd.