We have a couple of "former atheists" here in this forum, and they seem to excite quite a bit of comment from the atheist faction here.
What is your opinion?
2007-10-20 13:19:58 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As a former atheist now Christian I'd report that one can change. I'm happy to chat with people who want to test the hypothesis that in or by changing I abandoned reason, had a frontal lobotomy, had my IQ decline, started to drool, and walk around with my knuckles dragging on the floor.
Regarding frontal lobotomies, and wise man once said: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than to have a frontal lobotomy."
2007-10-20 13:41:03 · answer #1 · answered by wilsonch0 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure there are some children who want to rebel - so they 'say' they're atheists.
Every atheist I've known has come to the conclusion there are no gods because there is no evidence to justify belief in invisible sky thingies.
Stephen Roberts: I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
I'm sure there could be atheists who suddenly feel a bit crazy and fearful probably cos they listened to too many xians going on about hell.
FEAR is the most important of all xian weapons.
The religion breeds on fear - fear of dying, fear of the unknown, fear of hell.
FEAR is irrational and can make people become irrational = = = xians and muslims.
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2007-10-20 13:37:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a new atheist! So new that when I hear something horrible on the news, I say ' OMG! But it is more out of habit, rather than belief!
And habits are hard to break! I know because I smokes for 45 years!
I became an atheist because I prayed so much for answers, and was always left hanging! That gets old, real fast! Now, I count on myself, and get better results!
the peace that I have now, is much preferable to the 'fear' that kept me a prisoner for so many years! Fear that the 'devil' would get me, if I wasn't good, or if I didn't follow a certain code of behavior, I would ;burn in hell'!
Who needs that!
NOT ME!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-10-20 15:03:04 · answer #3 · answered by Renee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am one of those former Atheists
and yes I have seen comments about once an Atheist always an Atheist
and being a former Christian also , I have seen the same comments from them ... once a Christian always a Christian
maybe I just like annoying people lol
I am noticing that everyone thinks that when someone converts from Atheism that they become Christian
do Atheists only see Christianity ?
are they only Atheistic to the Abrahamic God ?
2007-10-20 13:24:57 · answer #4 · answered by ☮ Pangel ☮ 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
It will take a divine intervention called regeneration for an atheist to change his/her mind and believe in God. This is a sovereign work of the Holy Spirit whereby a sinner who is spiritually dead is made alive. It is this that enables a sinner to see and enter the Kingdom of God (as Jesus teaches in John 3). In other words, it is God who regenerates sinners and enable them to repent and believe.
"With God all things are possible."
2007-10-21 09:39:42 · answer #5 · answered by Steve 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If any actual "atheist" care to place God to the try as a nicely commonplace "atheist" who became a journalist and a legal expert an quite knowledgeable guy to assert the least had got down to disprove the bible and Christianity and located greater info to have self belief in God and Christ..his call is Lee Strobal and he wrote " The Case For Christ" an quite good e book I gave it to my "atheist" cousin and he or she stated that it became convincing yet needed greater info. examine it for your self in case you care to look for info or basically involved in what info he chanced on. He solutions a great form of detrimental inquiries to respond to. FYI...the rationalization I positioned atheist in parenthesis is using the fact i think that each and every physique have a minimum of as quickly as believed in God..even the devil believes..that's to no longer disrespect anybody and their freedom to pick.
2016-10-13 09:03:12 · answer #6 · answered by henshaw 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am Christian and I believe that God can help that person or people who are atheist, to believe in Him. Just because they are atheist, it doesn't mean that God loves them any less or differently. He died for there sins also, I just wish that they will realize that.
2007-10-20 14:05:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Show me an ex-atheist and I'll show you an ex-lousy-atheist. You don't suddenly revert to thinking the earth is flat unless you had a pretty loose grasp on its roundness to begin with.
CD
2007-10-20 13:41:38 · answer #8 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People call themselves atheists for a variety of different reasons. Sometimes it's because they want the feel of belonging to a certain group. Sometimes it's because they think it's kinda cool. And sometimes it's because they just don't believe in god anymore, as is the case with me.
I think that any atheist who becomes a believer never really got the point of atheism in the first place. In any case, we are reliably informed by the Bible that god spits the lukewarm out of his mouth.
2007-10-20 13:28:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I don't doubt their sincerity unless I have reason to. If they say they were atheists, I believe that they considered themselves atheists at one point.
One of them consistently implies (or states outright) that no atheists actually exist; that we're all in denial. I tend to comment on individuals who believe that they know my mind more than I do.
2007-10-20 13:25:50 · answer #10 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋