RE: Why do so many Christians claim to be former Atheists?
April 1, 2018 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2018 at 12:09 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
To piss me off.
Nah, in all seriousness, what they describe often tends to be the Bible's view of a doubting thomas, which is nothing like atheism.
They'll often talk about how they used to be angry at God and stuff, lol. That can't be genuine atheism, and this isn't the No True Atheist fallacy as it's fucking impossible to be angry at something you genuinely believe is non-existent lol. And the point is, claming to have been something doesn't make it so. I could claim to have previously been Alexander the Great's chief eunuch in a past life... but that wouldn't make it so.
Nah, in all seriousness, what they describe often tends to be the Bible's view of a doubting thomas, which is nothing like atheism.
They'll often talk about how they used to be angry at God and stuff, lol. That can't be genuine atheism, and this isn't the No True Atheist fallacy as it's fucking impossible to be angry at something you genuinely believe is non-existent lol. And the point is, claming to have been something doesn't make it so. I could claim to have previously been Alexander the Great's chief eunuch in a past life... but that wouldn't make it so.
