(July 6, 2012 at 2:23 am)Jeffonthenet Wrote: ...I hope you will not shut off the light of reason while reading my post as I sometimes did when I was an atheist.
I don't care if we are three pages in, or that you said this quite some time ago.
If you were an atheist and are currently a Christian, what made you change your mind? Seriously, I need to know. When I hear this from people I typically slam my face into my palm hard enough to hurt myself, because the responce is nearly always some kind of personal incredulity. There is never any evidence, and generally not even an argument, that ex-atheists have for their newfound belief.
It really makes me wonder, because I used to hold a position like yours and found it utterly indefensible and pathetic.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
