(September 26, 2013 at 1:37 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: I'm to be honest, I go to a Christian forum every once in a while to kick the hornets nest a little, however many Christians on there claim to be former atheists. I do not understand how a atheist could covert,as the is full of logical holes and moral atrocities, and the apologetics arguments are full of logical fallacies.
Some of them may be. But it is most likely they think of the word "atheist" as meaning "going against God's word" or "rebel" . That is not the same meaning deeply educated atheists use.
I have met myself people who really don't believe in any god, but are not educated into the arguments of either theists or atheists. I call them easy pickings. I can say in my early days of my new found atheism, I was not on line and not as educated as I am now about my position and theists position, I certainly could have been vulnerable back then.
I cant see myself ever believing in a god. If I ever did, my best guess is that I would have suffered mental illness or disease that would cause me not to be in my current lucid state.
I don't see how anyone can go back to believing in an invisible being once they realize how absurd the claim is.
But, if you run into "former atheists" who claim to have been say fans of Hitchens or Dawkins, odds are they are simply flat out lying.
