2007-11-07 08:34:23 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
But have you ever caused a religious person to question their own beliefs in God by chewing their ear off about how "irrational" they are?
2007-11-07 08:37:50 · update #1
Lol at usmcho's answer.
2007-11-07 08:40:20 · update #2
You can't convert someone who uses "circular logic" -- i.e. someone says "God exists because it says so in the bible". then I say "well how do you know the Bible's accurate"? then someone says "because God created it" :P
2007-11-07 08:40:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
A conversion is "an adventure linked with the sure and decisive adoption of a faith." ok, Atheism should not be a faith, yet a perception. and specific, there's a large distinction. a faith is a set of practices, maximum regularly in step with precise claims approximately fact and human nature, and regularly coupled with prayer, ritual, and/or religious law. concept is a state wherein a character holds an suggestion to be perfect or valid. in distinctive words, Suzie possibly Catholic, yet evaluate that abortion is oka y and justified (i'm now no longer stereotyping, in simple terms turning in an occasion). So, Atheism is an concept that individuals look after to be genuine. you need to declare that it somewhat is a loss of religion, that's, regularly, genuine, yet now no longer continuously. maximum religious people (Christians, Jews, and assorted others.) are Theists (the alternative of Atheist) meaning that they beleive in one or many gods. persons better half Atheism with faith by using fact maximum religions adjust to a theist outlook. as a result, Atheists do no longer traditionally ft right into a necessary religious classification, for the reason that maximum mainstream religions are theistic. i'm hoping that form of made experience... And to respond to your unique question, as an atheist, no, i've got on no account changed somebody.
2016-10-15 09:36:39 · answer #2 · answered by ocain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What would I possibly convert them to? A lack of belief?
You know the only time religious conflicts happen is when someone is trying to convince someone else to believe the way they do. I sat beside a Russian Orthodox priest for 9 hours on a plane and we had a great time.
2007-11-07 08:42:01 · answer #3 · answered by Demetri w 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not specifically that I know of. But this is only to be expected. Getting someone to change their beliefs, especially when said beliefs are based on dogmatic faith rather than logic, is a very difficult thing to do.
Besides, my main goal is not to convert people to atheism. In fact, to state it that way could almost be considered self-defeating. What I'm trying to get people to accept isn't the existence or nonexistence of God, but the power of science and logic. It is much, MUCH more important to be a freethinker than it is to be an atheist. You can think of it in terms of a computer: Converting someone from one religious viewpoint to another is like trying to get the same program to print different text, while converting someone from faith to logic is like uninstalling the program and installing another program in its place. In other words, it's not just the conclusion the theists come to that needs to be corrected, but more importantly, the process they used to reach that conclusion.
2007-11-07 08:40:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm not interested in converting anyone. People can believe what they want. But as it happens I've talked to people who have said that they've shifted from agnosticism to atheism after thinking (for some time, it must be said) about some things I've said.
But I've never made the effort and never will. People will only change if THEY want to.
2007-11-07 08:38:00 · answer #5 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
How should I know? That's not really my goal. I don't think that having numbers is going to make us any better. I am perfectly content with being an atheist, and I don't feel the need to try to get people to convert to "my side."
Besides, people don't just wake up and decide to be an atheist one day. It's more of a realization that you gradually get over time.
2007-11-07 08:41:55 · answer #6 · answered by Alex H 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have never tried to "convert" anybody to anything. However i have gotten into many philosophical discussion with people of faith. I also have known many to lose faith in the christian god, and become Buddhist's, or agnostic, and even sometimes become atheist's. But atheism is not a religion, so we dont try to "convert" people...
2007-11-07 08:41:45 · answer #7 · answered by tyler durden 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yep.
Unfortunately I was far more successful at converting people to Christianity, or from one denomination to another back in the bad old days. I will be sorry for that until I die.
In reality, the acceptance of atheism wasn't caused by me, it was caused by the mountain of evidence supporting it.
2007-11-07 08:38:00 · answer #8 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You don't bother to convert someone to atheism... if you are an atheist, you are smart enough to realize: "WHATS THE POINT?"
just let them go along with their own religeous lives... it won't change anything...
2007-11-08 04:08:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is not a religion. It is not having a belief in god and religion. Why then would they go around telling people their ideas trying to convert people? Converting implies switcing religions. As stated atheism is not.
2007-11-07 08:38:09 · answer #10 · answered by antsy33 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
It's not a conversion like in religion. Conversion involves a spiritual experience. Atheism simply means there is no god.
2007-11-07 08:43:11 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋