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With all this back and forth over the years, was anyone converted?


Just wondering if anyone was ever convinced to switch sides, whether it be atheist to religious, or religious to atheist.

Was it all for nothing...


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but of course there were.





for it is in the nature of truth to convert the unknowing.






Stephen

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Hall of famer Rod Carew

He converted

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I wasn't converted...but I will say that this place helped me form a better understanding of just about everything.

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There were a number of atheists converted to Christianity.
























































































































[there are only two atheists on this board threatened enough by my statement that they will need to respond to it.]







All fundies are nuts-Poisoned Dragon

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I was converted from borderline Nazi to merely slightly conservative.


It is not enough that I succeed. Everyone else must fail.

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I searched my Chx files to find this conversation we had in April, 2008. Most of these posters were ages 16-21 when they first started posting on the Pit. I haven't had contact with them in recent years. So I'm unsure if there have been any additional changes. I personally witnessed all these except for gilhon's.


1. LeonScottKennedy (formerly DanteThePilgrim) - former Fundamentalist Christian. Moved to atheism and later identified as apatheist.

2. gilhon - former Catholic. "Practically atheist now", he says.

3. deathofachilles - former Catholic who later identified as agnostic.

4. Caim - former JW then Buddhist.

5. JairStout - former Evangelical Christian then became a liberal Christian (Protestant).

6. NYCSubwayGuy (not sure about that name) - lapsed Catholic turned atheist who began attending church again because it made his wife happy and he said he felt comfortable there.








And you know the sun's settin' fast
And just like they say nothing good ever lasts

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Well not a religious conversion, but I used to be fairly indifferent either way on the death penalty (but if pushed leaning towards "for") and after seeing the arguments here for and against it and it prompting me to do further reading myself, I am now firmly against the death penalty.



If you're happy and you know it, go sit in the corner and think about your life.

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I was, but on the expelled board.

Religious to Agnostic Atheist.

Evolution fails to explain one thing: Why some creatures are tastier than others.

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