(February 26, 2015 at 6:19 pm)Brian37 Wrote: It isn't impossible to go back. Most of the "former atheists" over the years I have run into when you peal it back simply were apathetic about religion, or took the word as some sort of rebellion. I would say somewhere along the line they simply got sucked in by a snake oil salesman.
There really is a lot you need to know as an atheist as far as the extent of elaborate apology that they come up with. Some may have been atheists, but that doesn't mean they were well armed. I've been at this 14 years almost every day and I can tell you I was an atheist before I started educating myself and back then I was an easy target by comparison.
A child who has never heard of Santa Claus is likely to believe it when told about the existence of a magical man who flies around the world delivering presents. Especially when they find presents at the foot of their bed on Christmas morning.
But once that child learns that Santa Claus does not exist and that it was their parents leaving out the presents, they won't go back to believing it again as an adult.
Education is the key. You can't unlearn what you know.
