I'm going to start with your title.
An atheist cannot have a crisis of faith because atheism is not faith-based.
To move on to the contents of your post: if I say, At some point in the future, it is going to rain that does not mean I have a gift of prophecy. It merely means that I have experienced and observed the phenomenon and I have logically predicted that it will rain again in the future.
Anyone with dark days experience in the past could have easily attributed lunar eclipses to magic when they clearly did not fully comprehend the science behind it. In fact, prophecy tends to be so common and vague that of course they appear to be prophets when they are not.
On another note, as far as I understand, an individual named Jesus never existed.
An atheist cannot have a crisis of faith because atheism is not faith-based.
To move on to the contents of your post: if I say, At some point in the future, it is going to rain that does not mean I have a gift of prophecy. It merely means that I have experienced and observed the phenomenon and I have logically predicted that it will rain again in the future.
Anyone with dark days experience in the past could have easily attributed lunar eclipses to magic when they clearly did not fully comprehend the science behind it. In fact, prophecy tends to be so common and vague that of course they appear to be prophets when they are not.
On another note, as far as I understand, an individual named Jesus never existed.
