(June 17, 2014 at 11:15 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: That's not entirely true. Many of us were once theists. That doesn't mean we were insane. It means we didn't yet discover the rational truths that would cause us to make a shift from religious beliefs to atheism.
I was (to an extent). I actively argued against a rational evaluation of my faith. I argued against the same arguments I use now. So, my shift wasn't so much of a discovery, but more as me becoming disaffected by my beliefs, and gradually opening up to looking at them honestly.
