Some of Eliezer's writings played a significant role in my deconversion. By the time I found Less Wrong, I could not have been described as anything like devout, but still mostly alieved the religion I was raised in. Any decent atheist writer might have had a similar effect, I suspect: for me, the key was seeing how an atheist thinks about things, and noticing that it made perfect sense.

On my own, I might have fumbled to atheism eventually, but almost certainly a shakier and lower-quality form of it.