From atheism to Christianity? How so?

[fr0d0]

I'm sorry for reviving a dead thread, if that's a bad thing.

Please read the rules.

It was a good revival though. These sorts I have no problem with.. y'know.. a good question provoking a good answer.

Please don't beat me bloxxy!! :p

[Cyberman]

It would have been better as a new thread in its own right, though.

[fr0d0]

What do you do.. copy the op and start it again with credits? Meh, I guess. Saves the idea that you might need to read back I guess.

[Cyberman]

He could easily have used his post as the OP of a new thread.

[goodwithoutgod]

Say someone... pfffff, any random atheist, not calling out anyone... converted to Christianity. How did this happen? Anybody else... er, I mean anybody here been there, done that?

I confess I'm skeptical to this. First thing to pop into my head is that this is just another fundie trying to save souls by fitting in then sticking the hook down the throat.
Granted I could be wrong. Show me.

My theory on this is it is virtually impossible for an atheist, who is educated on mythology, to suddenly convert, and embrace what he or she knows is a complete fabrication. Now, if one is simply someone who doesn't believe in a god, but then didn't pursue the quest for knowledge, and research to trace the lies back to their inception, and then for some reason they decide due to a personal experience, or pressure from family to "convert" and embrace god, then that I can see. But for one that is deeply educated on this nonsense such as myself, there isn't anything short of god appearing before me, and thousands of others as witness to ensure I wasn't having a hallucination or stroke, and said in a sky shaking voice," Goodwithoutgod, you are wrong, feel my power!" or some such thing, write in the sky something, then I am not suddenly going to convert and embrace what I have known for years now is a complete and utter fabrication.

Religious belief requires the embracement of the three Fs, Fiction, Forgery and fantasy. To believe in the unseen, unproven and intangible, as defined by a transcendental "relationship" with the anthropocentric, abrahamic mythical god.

[Whateverist]

So how about for April fools day -or maybe Halloween- we resurrect like a twenty dead threads, each one authored by someone we miss?

[robvalue]

I think maybe I can legitimately use a fallacy...sort of.

If a sceptic becomes a theist, they weren't a true sceptic :p

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I will make a caveat though. If someone's actual brain function gets affected, such as by damage, or by a highly traumatic event, they may really have been a true sceptic.

[psychoslice]

From Christianity to atheist, how so ?......it works both ways.

[fr0d0]

I think maybe I can legitimately use a fallacy...sort of.

If a sceptic becomes a theist, they weren't a true sceptic :p

It's no joke Rob.. these guys are serious!!! hocked:

If you're a skeptic, how can you say that you'll never believe something? Surely that's the opposite of skepticism: closed mindedness??

[downbeatplumb]

It would have been better as a new thread in its own right, though.

I don't understand the justification for no necro posting. If you have a valid point to make even if the original question was a while ago why not?

Anyhoo I bow to the judgement of the mods.

Even though at heart I am a rocker.