Former atheist

[remagination]

Not everyone 'logicked' their way to atheism. If they were never taught to believe, but also never taught how to evaluate claims, there's no reason to think they would be that difficult to persuade. It's not atheism that acts as a bulwark against susceptibility to irrational beliefs, but rational skepticism.

This is one reason I do not seek to "convert" anyone to atheism (though it isn't the only reason). You see, I don't see theism so much as a cause of irrationality - but more as a symptom. If I teach a theist to think rationally and they use this skill to analyze their views on a host of social issues and more - but never get around to directing their logic at the question of God's existence, and therefore remain theists --- I know some people here would count that as a loss - but I would not. And I sure would prefer someone like that over an atheist who arrived at atheism through the dumb-luck reasoning that we are trained to be aware of when taught about the Fallacy Fallacy --- because the former has logic (even though they haven't directed it at the God question) while the later does not.