TheOtherDave comments on The annoyingness of New Atheists: declaring God Dead makes you a Complete Monster? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 16 January 2011 10:20:23PM 1 point [-]

My general answer to that question is here.

In this specific context, I would recommend thinking carefully about what made you want to change your beliefs, assuming you did want to. If you can figure that out and articulate it, you may find that other people in the same position you were in will react to it the same way.

Comment author: synkarius 16 January 2011 10:35:53PM 0 points [-]

I actually didn't want to. It was more of an overwhelming evidence deconversion. But I was willing to look at that evidence because I had a strong desire to be a defender of light, to boldly face the philosophical abyss of unbelief--- for God.

Yet there was a key difference somewhere between what I did and what I see a lot of believers do. I read enemy texts, not just friendly texts on enemy ideas. Why did I, in that frame of mind, do that? That might be the thing to figure out and then articulate, as you put it.