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Yes... and I envied them. :D
I suspect that if there is a parallel universe where I got religious, the proper strategy was to find a sufficiently intelligent clever arguer (someone like Chesterton, but with 50 more IQ points), or more likely, a group of Chesterton-level clever arguers I could spend a lot of time with, and thus have a social proof for their rationalizations. (Something like Dark CFAR.)
If I wanted to make someone religious I would give them experiences that aren't easily reconciled with their previous world view and then provide a religious belief system that can explain those experiences.
It's not easy to sustain being an atheist when you have a vision of Jesus rising from the cross. It not that hard to theoretically accept that the human mind can produce visions at random but it's another issue not to take one's own experience too seriously.