I'm an atheist who has been happily married to a christian for 10+years . I've contributed to her recent con-

Question

version to being an agnostic . Please state your religion , and what you think of my 10 year conversion rate . If I stay on this forum for 10 or more years , will it work for more people too ?

Answer 1

Considering that it took me seven years to make it from oblivious child to Atheist, I think ten years to create doubt in a delusional mind is a sign of great patience on your part, you must really love her to suffer through the pain of living with one "of them". I hope she realizes how special you are and hope she can make the final leap to rationality and join you at the top.

Answer 2

If you truly didn't believe there was a God, I suspect you wouldn't have worked so hard to convert her. We don't tend to put any real energy into what we believe to be insignificant. But because this appears to be an agenda that you feel compelled to invest time/energy into, you must believe, rather you want to admit it or not. I would tend to believe that someone has given you the impression that you are not good enough to be accepted by Christ (which is a lie from the pit of Hell), and because you don't think you could ever be accepted, in your selfishness you want to take her down with you. You are being deceived my friend. Your actions speak more clearly than you know. You really need to seek the Truth and be set free. Then hopefully your wife can be free to serve the God that she knows is truth. It is never too late as long as you are breathing.

Answer 3

truthfully, i don't understand any atheists that grew to become believers, it has continuously been any opposite direction around. no longer asserting it does not take place, I merely don't understand -- or for that rely understand of -- any. i exchange right into a raised in a Christian spouse and toddlers and theory-approximately myself a Christian until eventually i exchange into approximately twelve whilst i found out none of it made experience. consistent with hazard I wasn't a "authentic" Christian, yet I evaluate that a solid factor. My fiancee exchange into raised Christian besides; exchange right into a extensive-unfold Bible-thumping I-have-to-witness-to each physique in no way-forget-to-pray enthusiast. At fifteen she had a frightened breakdown because of the fact she theory the radio exchange into "broadcasting satanic messages" and has spent the final 20 some years convalescing. So... i'm enormously grateful i exchange into in no way a "authentic Christian."

Answer 4

I am Mormon, married to an agnostic. Apparently, your wife was not secure in her former religion to begin with. My wife and I are also happily married and we respect each others beliefs; I don't push my religion on her and she doesn't push her beliefs on me, although we do have open conversations about religion. Everyone must make their own choice, based on education, logic, faith, etc. I think your conversion rate will decrease if you are speaking to those who "know" the truth. I could never deny what I know to be true. Good luck.

Answer 5

Are you willing to share scientific evidence with her or will you wimp out because science doesn't support an Athiest position?
Arthur Conan Doyle for his character Sherlock Holmes wrote and I quote loosely.. "You solve a mystery by removing posiblities. What ever is left no matter how improbable is the truth.." Let me start by saying that no protine string can be built if they do not have the same chirality. In the case of protines this is left handlyness. Although two chemical molecules may appear to have the same elements and similar properties, they can still have different structures. When two molecules appear
identical and their structures differ only by being mirror images of each other, those molecules are said to have chirality. Your left and right hands illustrate chirality. When a random chemical reaction is used to prepare molecules having chirality, there is an equal opportunity to prepare the left-handed isomer as well as the right-handed isomer. It is a scientifically verifiable fact that a random chance process, which forms a chiral product, can only be a 50/50 mixture of the two optical isomers. There are no exceptions. Chirality is a property that only a few scientists would even recognize as a problem. The fact that chirality was missing
in those amino acids is not just a problem to be debated, it points to a catastrophic failure that "life" cannot come from chemicals by natural processes. DNA's chirality is all right handlyness. If proteins and DNA were formed by chance, each and every one of the components would be a 50/50 mixture of the two optical isomers. This is not what we see in natural proteins or in natural DNA. How can a random chance natural process create proteins with thousands of "L" molecules, and then also create DNA with billions of "R" molecules? Does this sound like random chance or a product of design? Chirality is not just a major problem for evolution; it is a dilemma. It is this handedness that gives DNA the spiral shaped helical structure. If one molecule in the DNA structure had the wrong chirality, DNA would not exist in the double helix form, and DNA would not function properly. The entire replication process would be derailed like a train on bad railroad tracks. In order for DNA evolution to work, billions of molecules within our body would have to be generated with the "R" configuration all at the same time, without error. If it is impossible for one nucleotide to be formed with chirality, how much less likely would it be for billions of nucleotides to come together exactly at the same time, and all of them be formed with the same chirality? According to evolution, natural processes must explain everything over long periods of time. However, the process that forms chirality cannot be explained by natural science in any amount of time. This is evidence straight from the labs of Science. The Bible has nothing to do with these facts. Yet the magnitude of the problem indicates that there WAS a creative force behind all life and that the spontaneous life generation that most scientist hold up as fact is at best far fetched and worst impossible..... Like I said I don't think you will have the intelectual honesty to let her know that evolution has a MAJOR scientific problem here.... Jim

Answer 6

People that are born again cannot be unborn, so I would say your wife may have been a church attender, but not a Biblical Christian. When you are truly born again, your life is transformed, and to then say that you could turn your back on the one who gave you that transformation and who fellowships with you through His Holy Spirit, would not be possible of a true believer. Congrats on the 10 happy years, though....I wish you many more.

Answer 7

I've seen more conversions from christian to atheist than the other way around.

I'm happily married to an ex-catholic. It took him about 7 years to "come around" - tho to be fair, I was a very confused deist for a lot of that time. It also might have been a defense against having to hear about how much Bertrand Russell rocked or listen to me prattle on about gnosticism around the dinner table any more! (kidding)

Answer 8

If you were HAPPILY married to a fine Christian woman for 10+ years, then why did you work for her losing of her faith and becoming an agnostic?

Answer 9

Your wife was only a nominal Christian at best if you converted her to agnosticism. You wore her down, like a dripping faucet. Shame on you. I see you glory in your shame.

By the way, "agnostic" has a Latin equivalent, it's "ignoramus."

Answer 10

Wow. Taking away someone's hope, all their spiritual tools, things that would have been a great comfort and companion as she grew older and life's changes happened.

Yeah, that's stuff to be real proud of there.