Have you known any atheists which got converted?

[Mister Agenda]

When I came to faith again I'd mellowed a lot. I'd had ~15 years to think about it. It was actually discussing atheist clichés like those repeated here that took me down that road. Presenting the logic of why Christians believe what they do against the usual ignorance. I came to a point, for the 2nd time, that my personal reasoning was at odds with my state of belief, so I had no choice but to change it. I chose to believe again.

That's an unusual experience. Most people report being convinced one way or another and finding that their belief had ended or begun, not consciously deciding to believe or not to believe. I didn't decide to become an atheist for instance, I realized that I'm an atheist. Not that you're the only one to put it that way.

It seems weird to me, like you could choose to believe the moon is made of green cheese if you decided that was a good way to go.

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I've only known two with 'atheist cred' who converted. Both had a religious SO and could only give emotional explanations for their change of heart. A little disappointing, we hope for something more tangible as a reason, don't we?

Were they actual atheists? What happened to them?

As far as I could tell. The interesting thing about them is that they were aware that their explanations for why they converted wouldn't be very convincing to skeptics. There's a difference between having been a skeptical atheist and having been an atheist for some other reason.

One was a blogger, it made a little news. The other was a regular poster on the Internet Infidels discussion board. As far as I know, she is still blogging, and the other guy sort of dropped out of sight. Understandable if you're no longer interested in what atheists have to say.