From atheism to Christianity? How so?

[Godlesspanther]

Well Agape, I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and concede that you were, at one time, an atheist who had through a profound experience gained a belief in a supernatural construct -- up until that last post.

Now, I simply do not find your story believable on several counts.

First of all -- atheists are not impressed with spouting quotes from your favorite holy text. I ignore that just as if you were spouting random quotes from The Pokey Little Puppy. It is not just that we reject the claims made in the Bible -- the basic premise is wrong. There is no such thing as a book that was inspired by, much less authored by, a supernatural source. There is no such thing as a book that can always be counted upon to be right no matter what -- such a book does not exist -- end of story. You seem to be entirely unaware of this fact and your claim that you once held this view is suspect to say the least.

Perhaps you were a non-believer in the supernatural, in an uninterested way, but you have made it clear that you were never an active skeptic.

If you were really a skeptic, you would never have fallen for the cheap, sleazy, fake leg-lengthening parlor trick that has been used by scumbag faith healers for ages. I have an internet search engine -- so do you:

https://www.google.com/#q=faith+healers+...k&safe=off

Just pick one or two of the many articles and videos exposing this scam.

The woman who needed money -- just eliminate the supernatural and what are you left with? A woman was having financial difficulties and her son gave her some money -- so what. A skeptic will naturally pursue a natural explanation -- It appears that you never really had such a mind-set. Dreams that seem to be prophetic can be explained by paradolia and retrofitting. There are no cases of confirmed prophecy that can't be explained by natural means.

Are we really to believe that you started studying all religious paths except the one that is by far the dominant, most popular, most pushed in your culture and then looked at that one last and found it to be true? No -- I don't believe you. Are we to believe that you went on a quest for spiritual enlightenment without actually "looking for anything"? Again, I don't believe that.

Yes, I found AA to be a vile cult -- what makes you think that i would be interested in another stupid cult? Hint: I'm not.

And then you claim that you, all by yourself, in a vacuum, decided to Bible your mind senseless to the point that you buy into the whole thing hook, line and sinker, including all the right-wing political crap as well as the theological construct without any real-world human influence guiding you in that direction. Once again -- bullshit.

Yes, Zeitgeist is a crock of shit -- no doubt. So is the video that you provided.

Any anyone who was ever the least bit skeptical of supernatural claims would never use Pascal's Wager -- even most xtian extremists reject it as sub=standard argumentation.

Bottom line, Agape -- I think you are just as much a former atheist as was Lee Stroebel of Kirk Cameron.

Your story is simply not believable.