Hello, I was looking for forums to join and this one seemed like a good idea. I used to be a member of The Thinking Atheist forums back in the day, and this looks like a similar sort of place. Mostly hoping to find challenging conversations, keep things in practice.
Oddly enough I ended up being brought to God in recent years. Wasn't anything I'd ever expected, being deep into Atheist thinking, and being fascinated by science and naturalism. I was hit in the face with it all at once, and it took a while to figure out exactly what was going on. Ended up happening in isolation, for the most part. Had a couple of 'Born Again Christians' try to convert me, but since they use emotional manipulation, cold reading and other trickery, it didn't work, because I spent over a decade studying cults as part of the Atheist community :L
I know I might be seen as a wolf entering the sheep pen here, but I'm not really particularly interested in trying to convince people of things or stir things up. I'm coming from the perspective of a lifelong atheist and rationalist who was forced to acknowledge God via what most people would call 'supernatural' events. Wouldn't even know how to convince my past self, let alone a randommer on the internet.
I do have Biblical arguments against Young Earth Creationism though, which could be pretty fun. Got a lot to say about the Bible actually, because it doesn't seem to contain the Biblical Narrative
The Christians and Muslims won't let me talk about these things, so I'll see what you lot are like instead. There was a saying back in the TTA days; "Atheists know the Bible better than the Christians"
Oddly enough I ended up being brought to God in recent years. Wasn't anything I'd ever expected, being deep into Atheist thinking, and being fascinated by science and naturalism. I was hit in the face with it all at once, and it took a while to figure out exactly what was going on. Ended up happening in isolation, for the most part. Had a couple of 'Born Again Christians' try to convert me, but since they use emotional manipulation, cold reading and other trickery, it didn't work, because I spent over a decade studying cults as part of the Atheist community :L
I know I might be seen as a wolf entering the sheep pen here, but I'm not really particularly interested in trying to convince people of things or stir things up. I'm coming from the perspective of a lifelong atheist and rationalist who was forced to acknowledge God via what most people would call 'supernatural' events. Wouldn't even know how to convince my past self, let alone a randommer on the internet.
I do have Biblical arguments against Young Earth Creationism though, which could be pretty fun. Got a lot to say about the Bible actually, because it doesn't seem to contain the Biblical Narrative
The Christians and Muslims won't let me talk about these things, so I'll see what you lot are like instead. There was a saying back in the TTA days; "Atheists know the Bible better than the Christians"
