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Thanks for the welcome, everyone.
Personally, I pretty much have no desire to proselytize anyone for anything. Waste of time, in my experience. Maybe you all are different, but no one I've ever met will actually change their mind in response to hearing a new line of reasoning, anyway.
What I do have an interest in is people actually taking the time to understand each other and present points in ways that the other party will understand. Atheists and Christians are particularly bad at this. Unfortunately, the worst offenders on the christian side are the least likely to change, or even see the problem. Perhaps there's more hope for those on the other side.
Anyway, I have no desire to debate theism here.
I have changed my mind in response to hearing a new line of reasoning. One particular poster on a forum I used to frequent changed my mind about politics by patiently giving sound arguments that I had not been presented with before. My political beliefs have been undergoing a continual evolution since then but I can pretty much point to that one individual as instrumental in shifting my political opinions in a new direction.