Wanting some feedback from the atheists

[Angrboda]

There is the well known example of street epistemology.

One of the prime tenets of street epistemology is that you don't go into with the intent to convert someone. It is, rather, an exercise in making people confront and define the source of their knowledge. I'm not sure this is the same

And something similar is stated about Christian witnessing. Perhaps that isn't the intent one has in mind, but what is prompting one to confront their source of knowledge, given the obvious belief that their source of knowledge is in some sense in need of correction (wink wink, nudge nudge), actually going to do? I think it's disingenuous to say it's not an attempt at deconversion. You may not go into it with that intent, but I think that's more of a 'how' aimed at making the intent more successful in execution than it is a disclaimer of the actual goal. If I want to hit a golf ball a long way, I shouldn't go into it with the intent to really smash the ball. But something along those lines is what I am trying to achieve. It's just that focusing on that interferes with my performing well on other aspects of the process.