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Former atheist
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RE: Former atheist
I believe many of these people are liars. Those amongst these "former atheists" that are genuine more than likely "became atheists" by rebellion or maybe even through anger at their imaginary god.

The conundrum here is that belief in a supernatural deity does not operate within the realm of logic and/or rational thinking. Faith is a matter of faith, not knowledge, not logic, not reason. God, since it requires faith to believe in, is therefore also a matter of faith, not knowledge, not logic. There is no empirical evidence for any god.

So, for one to go from an atheist to a theist, one must have, at some point, on some level, used some rational thinking in order to come to the conclusion that they, in fact, did not believe in any god(s). They decided they would use logic to tackle the subject of god. After spending a certain amount of time like this, they must have then made a conscious decision that they would halt their use of logic and rational thinking when it came to tackling the subject of god, and revert back to using faith, for whatever reason. This would tell me that they considered faith to be superior to logic all along, which is what makes me doubt the genuineness of claims such as these.
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Former atheist - by Dystopia - February 26, 2015 at 6:11 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Faith No More - February 26, 2015 at 6:15 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Brian37 - February 26, 2015 at 6:19 pm
RE: Former atheist - by watchamadoodle - February 26, 2015 at 7:16 pm
RE: Former atheist - by I_am_not_mafia - March 1, 2015 at 6:19 am
RE: Former atheist - by Norman Humann - February 26, 2015 at 6:19 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Mudhammam - February 26, 2015 at 6:21 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Brian37 - February 26, 2015 at 6:32 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Neo-Scholastic - February 26, 2015 at 9:30 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Esquilax - February 26, 2015 at 10:43 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Thackerie - February 27, 2015 at 11:14 am
RE: Former atheist - by Homeless Nutter - February 27, 2015 at 7:17 am
RE: Former atheist - by Thumpalumpacus - February 27, 2015 at 1:03 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Dystopia - February 26, 2015 at 6:24 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Norman Humann - February 26, 2015 at 6:27 pm
RE: Former atheist - by watchamadoodle - February 26, 2015 at 6:26 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Mudhammam - February 26, 2015 at 6:31 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Esquilax - February 26, 2015 at 6:35 pm
RE: Former atheist - by SteelCurtain - February 26, 2015 at 6:38 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Esquilax - February 26, 2015 at 6:59 pm
RE: Former atheist - by wiploc - February 27, 2015 at 1:20 am
RE: Former atheist - by SteelCurtain - February 27, 2015 at 12:04 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Faith No More - February 27, 2015 at 12:14 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Simon Moon - February 26, 2015 at 7:17 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Heywood - February 26, 2015 at 7:58 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Simon Moon - February 26, 2015 at 8:07 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Mudhammam - February 26, 2015 at 8:10 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Simon Moon - February 26, 2015 at 9:02 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Dystopia - February 26, 2015 at 8:14 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Faith No More - February 26, 2015 at 9:06 pm
RE: Former atheist - by remagination - February 28, 2015 at 12:41 pm
RE: Former atheist - by abaris - February 26, 2015 at 9:21 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Heywood - February 27, 2015 at 4:19 am
RE: Former atheist - by Pizza - February 26, 2015 at 9:33 pm
RE: Former atheist - by The Valkyrie - February 26, 2015 at 9:35 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Ravenshire - February 26, 2015 at 10:57 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Whateverist - February 26, 2015 at 11:27 pm
RE: Former atheist - by dyresand - February 26, 2015 at 11:59 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Thumpalumpacus - February 27, 2015 at 1:05 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Homeless Nutter - February 27, 2015 at 12:02 am
RE: Former atheist - by Minimalist - February 27, 2015 at 12:28 am
RE: Former atheist - by wiploc - February 27, 2015 at 1:12 am
RE: Former atheist - by Mudhammam - February 27, 2015 at 1:16 am
RE: Former atheist - by Grandizer - February 27, 2015 at 7:22 am
RE: Former atheist - by Neo-Scholastic - February 27, 2015 at 9:37 am
RE: Former atheist - by Chas - February 27, 2015 at 9:49 am
RE: Former atheist - by Neo-Scholastic - February 27, 2015 at 10:55 am
RE: Former atheist - by Mudhammam - February 27, 2015 at 10:09 am
RE: Former atheist - by Faith No More - February 27, 2015 at 11:33 am
RE: Former atheist - by Neo-Scholastic - February 27, 2015 at 12:47 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Faith No More - February 27, 2015 at 1:55 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Neo-Scholastic - February 27, 2015 at 2:46 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Faith No More - February 27, 2015 at 5:38 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Dystopia - February 27, 2015 at 10:11 am
RE: Former atheist - by Mister Agenda - February 27, 2015 at 10:39 am
RE: Former atheist - by Minimalist - February 27, 2015 at 11:58 am
RE: Former atheist - by Strongbad - February 27, 2015 at 12:37 pm
RE: Former atheist - by wiploc - February 27, 2015 at 4:24 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Strongbad - February 27, 2015 at 10:21 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Neo-Scholastic - February 27, 2015 at 1:04 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Strongbad - February 27, 2015 at 1:36 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Mister Agenda - March 2, 2015 at 12:07 pm
RE: Former atheist - by remagination - March 2, 2015 at 2:51 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Strongbad - March 2, 2015 at 3:32 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Thackerie - February 27, 2015 at 2:48 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Pizza - February 27, 2015 at 4:40 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Neo-Scholastic - February 27, 2015 at 6:14 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Faith No More - February 27, 2015 at 6:36 pm
RE: Former atheist - by watchamadoodle - February 27, 2015 at 6:22 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Neo-Scholastic - February 28, 2015 at 9:45 am
RE: Former atheist - by comet - February 27, 2015 at 9:35 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Delysid - March 1, 2015 at 2:16 am
RE: Former atheist - by robvalue - March 1, 2015 at 8:08 am
RE: Former atheist - by Cyberman - March 1, 2015 at 10:13 am
RE: Former atheist - by I_am_not_mafia - March 1, 2015 at 10:35 am
RE: Former atheist - by I_am_not_mafia - March 1, 2015 at 8:44 am
RE: Former atheist - by Angrboda - March 1, 2015 at 10:45 am
RE: Former atheist - by Norman Humann - March 1, 2015 at 10:58 am
RE: Former atheist - by Chas - March 1, 2015 at 1:00 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Whateverist - March 1, 2015 at 1:15 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Angrboda - March 1, 2015 at 2:15 pm
RE: Former atheist - by robvalue - March 1, 2015 at 1:26 pm
RE: Former atheist - by Faith No More - March 1, 2015 at 6:42 pm
RE: Former atheist - by robvalue - March 2, 2015 at 4:53 am
RE: Former atheist - by Pizza - March 2, 2015 at 12:29 pm

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