(February 14, 2014 at 9:58 am)FreeTony Wrote: In my personal experience, which I confess is probably only just big enough to be statistically significant, but I notice this pattern:
Atheists tend to be those that didn't get brought up with religious parents, but there are some who were Christians and now lack belief.
Christians have all been brought up by religious parents and/or school indocrination. There are none that were brought up without any indocrination.
Now this is just a general trend just form my observations, but it would imply all these Christians trying to convert the type of Atheists that haven't been indoctrinated are complety wasting their time. They'd have as much luck going into a Mosque and trying to convert them (although their are very rare occasions that this works, and vice versa).
Now there will be occasional exceptions to this, though a lot of the "I used to be an Atheist then I saw the light" brigade don't seem to know what an Atheist actually is and were brought up Christians and have always believed a God exists. There are also a few genuine Atheist turn Christians. From my experience they are very very rare (I've never met one), though you can find the odd story on the internet.
Ahem, hello my name is Drich, can you and I be friends?
