(December 29, 2013 at 5:54 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: My experience is that most Evangelical Christians that say they used to be atheists are full of shit. You can usually tell within 5 minutes of talking to them because they will know nothing about atheism.
That...yeah, that also happens. I think that most just didn't think about religion very much in the past. If asked at the time, I doubt they would have said that they didn't believe in God.
Of course, the idea that a real Christian won't participate in non-Christian behavior or can't lose their salvation (something you find in evangelical circles pretty often, particularly among Calvinists) probably leads to a lot of that. If sola fide is true, and if you were participating in behavior that marked you as "unsaved" (partying/swearing/[insert denomination's least favorite thing here]), then of course you didn't really believe.
