Have you ever converted someone to Atheism?`

My friend came up to me two days ago (March 25) and said that it was me that converted her to atheism. I showed her a couple of books, websites, and some of my favorites on youtube about a month ago, when she asked me about Atheism. I didn't really intend to convert her purposely, we were just casually yapping in my house about nothing and the subject came up. She thanked me too! This is the first person I ever converted!

If anyone has similar or great stories, please share.

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Permalink Reply by Secular Forces 2013 on June 24, 2010 at 3:14am
You mean turned someone into a freethinker?
Perhaps Ingersol CD's, O'hare audio CD's....
Seems being able to sleep at night and 'science' are good at doing the switch as well...
Permalink Reply by William C. Walker on June 30, 2010 at 12:57pm
Becoming an Atheist is simply removing a cross from ones back. For me, there's no room on my back for any more goddam crosses.
Permalink Reply by Joseph P on June 25, 2010 at 11:26pm
Working on it. Working on it.

Unfortunately, the guy I was working on picked up a Southern Baptist girlfriend, and he's a total idiot who doesn't do much thinking above the belt. She's got an argument that I can't top.
Permalink Reply by Glenn Sogge on June 25, 2010 at 11:33pm
The great thing about that argument is that if it is actually being used, there's probably some Biblical law-breaking going on. Even if it is only being fantasized (lust in the heart ....)
Permalink Reply by Joseph P on June 25, 2010 at 11:43pm
Yeah, but alas, he doesn't seem to have the necessary self-awareness to see the hypocrisy. Most Southern Baptists I've known don't.
Permalink Reply by La Gaya Sienza on June 29, 2010 at 7:58am
lol
Permalink Reply by Cher Mason on June 26, 2010 at 12:31am
nope. I haven't converted anybody. I'm just hoping that I've helped clear up some misconceptions about atheism. That's the best I can hope for. :)
Permalink Reply by LittlePig on June 26, 2010 at 7:29am
Smells like church in here. ;)
Permalink Reply by William C. Walker on June 26, 2010 at 7:15pm
Since I went public with my Atheism upon retirement 22 years I have tried my best to get people to THINK about religions. Hundreds of letters to the editor, picketing churches the White House, the Congress the Supreme Court, etc. Believe I've 'converted' a few Agnostics to Atheism, a few Xians to at least question the doctrines & dogma of Xianity. Made a lot of friends & quite a few enemies too. I cherish both.
Permalink Reply by Joseph P on June 26, 2010 at 7:53pm
Yup, sounds like the mission statement of The Atheist Experience show ... not the official mission statement that they rattle off at the beginning of the show, but the real, personal reason they do it, which they give when they get someone calling in asking them why they would do a show about Atheism. That's the most we can reasonably hope for, in most situations, just nudging people a little bit in our direction, or at least helping mitigate the damage done by idiots like Ray Comfort.
Permalink Reply by William C. Walker on June 26, 2010 at 7:31pm
Since I went public with my Atheism upon retirement 22 years ago, I have tried my best to get people to THINK about religions. Hundreds of letters to the editor, picketing churches the White House, the Congress the Supreme Court, etc. Believe I've 'converted' a few Agnostics to Atheism, a few Xians to at least question the doctrines & dogma of Xianity. Made a lot of friends & quite a few enemies too. I cherish both.
Permalink Reply by Joseph P on June 27, 2010 at 12:46pm
My understanding is that Theism/Atheism is the base and Gnosticism/Agnosticism is the modifier.

A Gnostic Christian is one of the fundies, who knows that the Bible is the literal word of God, who talks to God (there are meds that can fix that), and is very dictatorial about their religion.

Agnostic Christians are the wishy-washy apologists who pick and choose what they want out of the Bible ... some of them barely believe in the Bible at all and just have this weird concept that there is a god, and God is love, and God is all Good, and blah blah blah blah blah.

Agnostic Atheists don't believe that there is sufficient proof to believe in a deity, but they haven't seen enough evidence to declare that there certainly isn't a deity.

Gnostic Atheists are the "hard Atheists" who feel they have enough evidence to declare that there definitely is not a God.

I'm not sure I'd classify myself all the way over in the last category ... but if there is any kind of deity out there, and I somehow did find enough evidence to believe in it, I'd have some serious questions that would need answering, before I could worship it. The way that our creator is running the world displays either gross incompetence or a sadistic streak.

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