(July 1, 2015 at 4:19 am)Neimenovic Wrote:(July 1, 2015 at 1:54 am)Randy Carson Wrote: And when you read the stories of the atheists who became Christians, Jenny, what did you find to be the reasons for their conversions?
A couple stories that I've read all had the same background: being raised by religious parents. Then it would be either:
1) rebelling against fundamentalist parents to later return to faith by personal revelation
2) the parents weren't practicing/devout, so lack of belief naturally followed; the return to belief was sparked by a personal revelation
All the ones I've read converted due to a personal experience, a hallucination/dream/sudden realization etc.
And all of them already had religious background. My sample size is too small to draw conclusions on a larger scale, but I'd say that it's quite peculiar that I've not encountered a person raised in unbelief who's had god convert him in person. Could it be that your god doesn't care about those lifelong unbelievers? Or is that because said infidels would have a hard time deciding which god has spoken to them?
Yeah, I could see the reversion thing being unimpressive. I'm more interested in the folks who grew up atheist or agnostic but then became theists.
There are some of those out there.
