What was it like being an atheist?

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What would it take to convince you that I was in fact once an atheist?

Is there anything at all that I could say which would convince you?

Oh, I dunno, I think it's pretty easy to tell who's bullshitting and who isn't in this case: the ones who claim they were previously atheists and then proceed to mention as many atheist strawmen as possible as the reasons they gained faith are probably lying, because those "I'm mad at god/I'm an atheist to be cool" canards are demonstrably wrong, or at least so far out of the lived experiences of real atheists as to be laughable. Generally speaking, if your reasons for turning to any kind of god are the best of playlist of anti-atheist propaganda, it's pretty easy to doubt. Hence why I simply don't believe strodel when he says he used to be a non-believer; if he's not being outright dishonest then he's at least misinterpreting other things that were wrong in his life as atheistic problems because that fits in with the narrative he's comfortable with.

On the other hand there are those, like you as far as I can tell, Apophenia, who don't resort to stereotypes or passive aggression in their reasoning.

Really, it's like telling the difference between a cartoon character and a real person.