(January 2, 2015 at 11:04 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(January 2, 2015 at 10:55 pm)TaosFlower Wrote: My dad tells me he was once an atheist. I find that VERY hard to believe. How can you go from believing there is no god (with all the evidence to support it) and then BAM, now you believe there's a god.We get plenty of those here - to a man..they're liars..lol. Their descriptions of what atheism is or meant to them invariably toe the line of whatever some douchey preacher says about atheism. They don't realize how unbelievable their little fib is because they have absolutely no experience with the subject matter.
He's used his "past atheism" to try and shut me down when I get into arguments with him about religion.
Yes, he seems to think that atheism is being angry at god and rejecting his laws. So as an atheist he still believed that god existed, it was just that he was angry and refused to obey god. At least that's the idea I get when he tries to explain it (which is always a complicated affair).
I don't know why he thinks that meets the definition of an atheist. But I hardly think he ever was one. He was just a bad god fearing person.
