juliawise comments on Tell Your Rationalist Origin Story - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FeatherlessBiped 31 December 2011 07:31:41PM 1 point [-]

Do you have a reference to support your first claim?

Comment author: juliawise 01 January 2012 04:01:03PM *  0 points [-]

I've heard of several. I don't know stats on what proportion of Bible scholars de-convert.

Bart D. Ehrman - author of a book saying lots of the New Testament was forged

Francesca Stavrakopoulou (unclear when she became atheist)

Robert Price - went from Baptist minister to Cthulu mythologist. Not kidding.

Jacques Berlinerblau, who does say he knows few openly atheist biblical scholars.

Comment author: FeatherlessBiped 08 January 2012 09:18:31PM 0 points [-]

The second sentence of this response is a non-defense of your thesis, and the rest of it does not help your case, much. I am open to evidence of your claim that "many" have become atheists. For the sake of argument, I would admit that >10% conversion rate would count as "many", as would, say, some absolute number such as 1,000 in the last 100 years.

Perhaps you can find some authority who has researched this question?

Comment author: juliawise 10 January 2012 11:41:20AM 1 point [-]

Sorry, I intended my above comment to mean: "There are some, I found these four, but apparently (according to Jacques Berlinerblau), there aren't many."