If so, can you "testify"?
2006-12-01 07:42:06 · 23 answers · asked by Laptop Jesus 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, so far to my knowledge I have not.
But... I was helped by other atheists. So, I'm proof that speaking your mind can and does help.
It only takes one person to make a difference. People have to change themselves. You just present the knowledge they use to do so should they choose to.
2006-12-01 07:47:51 · answer #1 · answered by Snark 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure I'd call it "deconverting," but on occasion I have been asked to put in my 2 cents about religion and such. Some of these folks seem to have gone in a fairy skeptical path. But in reality, these were usually intellectually active people who were likely to move on from dogma with or without me. (After all, I have no secret "new" arguments against myths that couldn't be found in any respectable library.)
Most importantly, I NEVER approach an individual with these ideas unless I am invited. Not everyone is emotionally equipped to deal with raw reality. And in any case, I always say love the believer, but cream the belief.
2006-12-01 16:00:28 · answer #2 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if I changed someones belief but I did make someone think about the possibilities.
My girlfriend came home from Church and started complaining about the sexist xenophobic Priest. The Priest a preaching searching and following anyone "different" and that women should listen to their man.
I confess I had nothing to do with the conversion, I just listened to the complaints, that Priest made her agnostic.
Religion does such a good job of driving away thinking people that I do not feel like I have to do anything,
2006-12-01 15:51:37 · answer #3 · answered by Just Wondering 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have helped several people realize that the real God would never punish or judge anyone for any reason. This basically allows them to see Christianity as nonsense.
This is sort of converting them from a lie to the truth.
Does that count?
Love and blessings Don
2006-12-01 15:49:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've never actually met a commited religionist-they are very few and far between in the UK these days. I don't need to convert people when Christianity is dying of natural causes anyway.
2006-12-01 15:46:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ever rising death toll from killing for God is Atheism's best tool. The demise of religion is being brought on by the non-stop violence. By the way, "Properly read the Bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived". -- Isaac Asimov
2006-12-01 15:57:20 · answer #6 · answered by The professor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have helped my little brother, husband and two home-schooled nephews to get out of the dogma of catholicism or fundy christian.
Primarily it was just being there for them. Listening to them. Reasoning with them. And handing them a few good books by Barker and Sagan. If kind, PATIENT people hadn't done this with me, I would still be a bible bashing fundy. I owe it to the cosmos to keep encouraging reason.
2006-12-01 15:46:37 · answer #7 · answered by Black Parade Billie 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
no, we don't do stuff like that. proselytizing is a christian thing. if we have to convince you to be atheist, you're not really an atheist. atheism has to be realized by the individual.
2006-12-01 15:51:59 · answer #8 · answered by The Key Master 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Um, no everyone in my school & life are atheist or non religous
2006-12-01 15:45:12 · answer #9 · answered by *~SoL~ * Pashaa del Ñuñcaa. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What the hell does "DEconvert" mean?
2006-12-01 15:45:00 · answer #10 · answered by Vince M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋