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[an anarchist]

Edit: I just realized this is real similar to my other thread, gonna try to get it deleted lol
Hey mods, if you see this and feel up to deleting this, go right ahead, it’s sorta spam like this, my bad!

 

[Heyo]

So, I know on this site there are plenty of former Christians turned atheists. I got a general idea of how that happens. The Christian uses logic and then becomes atheist, right? So it is said.
I’m curious about the other way around, though. If you weren’t born into your Christianity, what won you over? If you were born in a secular household, what made you religious?
Edit: I just realized this is real similar to my other thread, gonna try to get it deleted lol

You can go from religion to atheism using logic but I've yet to meat someone who has gone from (informed) atheism to religion using logic.

But there are people who say they were atheists once and are now religious.

Two possible explanations:
1. They weren't informed atheists. I.e. they haven't studied or thought about arguments for and against theism. I.e. they were igtheists at best.
2. They became religious by circumventing logic. They stopped thinking about the arguments for and against theism and made a leap of faith (a.k.a. a jump to conclusion).

That is assuming they really are religious now. A third option is that they lie. It can be very lucrative to be an atheist who pretends to be religious. The religious are easy to fleece.

 

[an anarchist]

You can go from religion to atheism using logic but I've yet to meat someone who has gone from (informed) atheism to religion using logic.

But there are people who say they were atheists once and are now religious.

Two possible explanations:
1. They weren't informed atheists. I.e. they haven't studied or thought about arguments for and against theism. I.e. they were igtheists at best.
2. They became religious by circumventing logic. They stopped thinking about the arguments for and against theism and made a leap of faith (a.k.a. a jump to conclusion).

That is assuming they really are religious now. A third option is that they lie. It can be very lucrative to be an atheist who pretends to be religious. The religious are easy to fleece.

Thanks for the reply, I feel a bit silly now editing out the OP, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ve been thinking how it would look like if I returned to Christianity, and I think it would have to be option two. Not that I’m going to do it, just thinking hypothetically. As I inform myself more, I feel like God would have to legit speak to me in like a dream or vision or something for me to believe again.

 

[ChristineM]

You can go from religion to atheism using logic but I've yet to meat someone who has gone from (informed) atheism to religion using logic.

But there are people who say they were atheists once and are now religious.

Two possible explanations:
1. They weren't informed atheists. I.e. they haven't studied or thought about arguments for and against theism. I.e. they were igtheists at best.
2. They became religious by circumventing logic. They stopped thinking about the arguments for and against theism and made a leap of faith (a.k.a. a jump to conclusion).

That is assuming they really are religious now. A third option is that they lie. It can be very lucrative to be an atheist who pretends to be religious. The religious are easy to fleece.

I see a 3rd explanation
They were angry at their god, choosing the title atheism to show their anger at their god without knowing its definition and implications.

 

[VoidCat]

This is me...not ignoring the thread. Imma tag a mod:
@Polymath257

 

[an anarchist]

This is me...not ignoring the thread. Imma tag a mod:
@JustGeorge

*Edits title to “Ignore thread”*
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[Evangelicalhumanist]

Another real possibility: someone could, early in life, rebel against nearly everything of the previous generation (young people often do), but still harbor the deeper religious belief that they were born into without giving it much thought. As they mature, those beliefs, like other things they learned from parents and others, return.

 

[VoidCat]

*Edits title to “Ignore thread”*
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I thought it was going to be a joke thread. That's why I clicked

 

[VoidCat]

I thought it was going to be a joke thread. That's why I clicked

I made a joke thread since you mercilessly teased me with one.
Ignore thread

 

[Viker]

Never make an "Ignore Thread" thread. It just begs another to give it some attention.