I will not say it is impossible to go from the "off" position to the position of Jesus being the one son of the one God of the bible position.
But, when you listen to these "former" atheists, they are not really defining the word in the same way. "Atheist" for most who claim to be former, is more along the lines of anyone who does not buy their new position. "Atheist" to most atheist means "off" on all deity claims, not just the Christian one.
It can be due to having an "oh shit I should have died in that accident " or from my addiction" or "life has pretty things in it". It can also be as mundane as a slick apologist stumping them, and throwing their hands up and saying, "This theist got me, they must be right".
But the more educated you are on religious arguments knowing the traps in logical fallacies and scientific absurdities, and the more you see that every religion in the world ultimately makes the same arguments the harder it is for an apologist to get you to fall for their arguments.
What is more important in combating this bad argument, isn't by looking it in terms of one religion. Humans can also go from being former Christians to Muslim, or former Muslim to Christian, or even go from those to Buddhists. Point is people leave one club for another in every direction all the time. The only thing they are proving is that they changed their position, it is still not evidence that their new position is fact.
But, when you listen to these "former" atheists, they are not really defining the word in the same way. "Atheist" for most who claim to be former, is more along the lines of anyone who does not buy their new position. "Atheist" to most atheist means "off" on all deity claims, not just the Christian one.
It can be due to having an "oh shit I should have died in that accident " or from my addiction" or "life has pretty things in it". It can also be as mundane as a slick apologist stumping them, and throwing their hands up and saying, "This theist got me, they must be right".
But the more educated you are on religious arguments knowing the traps in logical fallacies and scientific absurdities, and the more you see that every religion in the world ultimately makes the same arguments the harder it is for an apologist to get you to fall for their arguments.
What is more important in combating this bad argument, isn't by looking it in terms of one religion. Humans can also go from being former Christians to Muslim, or former Muslim to Christian, or even go from those to Buddhists. Point is people leave one club for another in every direction all the time. The only thing they are proving is that they changed their position, it is still not evidence that their new position is fact.
