Why do so many Christians claim to be former Atheists?

[chimp3]

Here we have another story (on fox news of course) about a believer who claims to have been a former Atheist.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/03/2...to-me.html

We see this sort of thing a lot.  Like with Howard Storm.  Only whenever we get these Atheists, they never seem to really know what it's like to be an atheist.  It's easy to make the claim that you were once an atheist.  Because we don't really have any qualifiers other than "Doesn't believe in God"  But none of these people ever seem to really get what being an atheist is like.  .....

.....Now is it possible she's not lying?  Sure.  But that doesn't mean I think we should give her the benefit of the doubt here.  Or any of these other folks.  It's easy to claim to have been an atheist.  

Why would she do that? Because we are that fucking cool!

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I was an Atheist for a week. To be honest, I don't know how you guys do it, not look at God's light and embrace it.  It was the most horrible 10 days of my life, and I even talked my doctor about it!

Maybe you're just not cool enough!