(March 4, 2015 at 2:52 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: ...IMO the areas of knowledge that help are: philosophy, comparative religion, religious history, archaeology, etc.
We all know the likelihood of the average theists running off to critically examine their beliefs is vanishingly small.
Also making friends with people who don't share your beliefs might help.
It would be interesting to take a poll of ex-Christians to see what caused them to wake up.