Has anyone either become Christian or left Christianity because of Y/A?

Answer 1

I can honestly say I was making a sincere attempt to be convinced of the reality of Christianity and the Holy Spirit when I came to Y/A as an agnostic.

see my recent question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak7RlLbEcJKmpakETMcPNDrsy6IX?qid=20070412145629AACTriS

It was largely because of the interactions with the Christians and believers through here that I became an Atheist.

Answer 2

I am not interesting in converting luatics. Just gentle persuasion of intelligent people.


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'"Dawkins has been talking this way for years, and his best comebacks are decades old. For instance, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a variant of the tiny orbiting teapot used by Bertrand Russell for similar rhetorical duty back in 1952. Dawkins is perfectly aware that atheism is an ancient doctrine and that little of what he has to say is likely to change the terms of this stereotyped debate. But he continues to go at it. His true interlocutors are not the Christians he confronts directly but the wavering nonbelievers or quasi believers among his listeners – people like me, potential New Atheists who might be inspired by his example.

"I'm quite keen on the politics of persuading people of the virtues of atheism," Dawkins says, after we get settled in one of the high-ceilinged, ground-floor rooms. He asks me to keep an eye on his bike, which sits just behind him, on the other side of a window overlooking the street. "The number of nonreligious people in the US is something nearer to 30 million than 20 million," he says. "That's more than all the Jews in the world put together. I think we're in the same position the gay movement was in a few decades ago. There was a need for people to come out. The more people who came out, the more people had the courage to come out. I think that's the case with atheists. They are more numerous than anybody realizes."

Dawkins looks forward to the day when the first US politician is honest about being an atheist. "Highly intelligent people are mostly atheists," he says. "Not a single member of either house of Congress admits to being an atheist. It just doesn't add up. Either they're stupid, or they're lying. And have they got a motive for lying? Of course they've got a motive! Everybody knows that an atheist can't get elected."'

Answer 3

Don't think that will happen either way. As a Christian, the negative responses by the non-believers only reinforces my beliefs. Actually, it has made my Christian belief system stronger then ever.

Answer 4

I have a hard time thinking anyone would leave Christ because of peoples answers on Yahoo A&?. But I am sure some turn to Christ because of it.

If a person left Christ, it would mean that Christ wasn't their Lord & Savior yet. And they were on the edge & someone may have written just the thing to influence person to not believe in Jesus, or to believe in Jesus.

Answer 5

I would suppose so,my position is set in stone,however.

I have been forced to drive a sharp pencil or two clear though my ear drum after reading some of the ridiculous,inconsequential posts on this forum......

Answer 6

I doubt it. Although it could be a contributing factor, people in general do not leave their religion as a result of one question board.
People change or leave religions because of a series of events over time that would lead them to conclude that the path that they were taking is not what they thought it was.

Answer 7

i think of you need to take the tension off your self approximately final doorways and such. in simple terms open your self to discovering approximately different religions (no longer purely Wicca) and analyzing your very own emotions/ideals. you do no longer ought to close any doorways until eventually there comes a time (if there comes a time) which you're waiting. you nonetheless have lots to examine approximately Wicca previously you're able to be able to additionally evaluate however if that's right for you. as an occasion "An ye injury none, do what you will" isn't a rule or regulation in Wicca. that's called the Wiccan Rede, the observe 'rede' means "suggestion." It develop into stated by a Wiccan in the Nineteen Seventies and caught on; some modern-day books and information superhighway websites carry it up as though that's the equivalent of a commandment for us. in spite of the undeniable fact that it is not. And it would not honestly command us from no longer doing injury, it purely says that if what we are doing isn't hurting all people, have at it with out guilt. human beings throw those words around in Wicca in many cases with out truly information them. in spite of the undeniable fact that it may be impossible to stay with out doing injury, by fact which you won't have the ability to even consume with obtainable being a dying of an animal or plant. each and every so often we are compelled to make difficult possibilities. Wiccan tenets honestly instruct us greater relating to the complexities of existence and possibilities... no unmarried little arbitrary seize words ever truly supply us all the solutions. Wiccan morality is lots deeper than that. additionally, conversing as somebody who develop into molested by kinfolk as a baby and accused of mendacity approximately it by different kinfolk (who probable in simple terms did no longer desire to handle the immensity of the form of difficulty, it develop into less difficult to purely pretend it did no longer take place and that i develop right into a liar)... sure, the "rule of three" does take that's toll on human beings, in a vogue. i do no longer in my opinion have self assurance something comes returned expanded thrice specifically, or that it truly is a regulation/rule of any form of Gods, yet that that's in simple terms the assumption-approximately reason and effect. You gain what you sow. people who do discpicable acts like that usually deliver their very very own downfall.

Answer 8

I know of a couple of people who have used Yahoo! to help them find answers about their faiths.

However, I don't know if this has caused them to radically change what they believe (that seems unlikely).
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Answer 9

Me...well, like the Great Gazoo said!

And then after some studying...I left it.

Answer 10

I know of two who left. I don't think it was because of this, but it helped give them the push.