[lbo-talk] A time of doubt for atheists

[Autoplectic]

On 7/30/05, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> --- Mycos <mycos at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Quite frankly, in my opinion anybody who says they
> were a former
> atheist was, in truth, at best an agnostic. You simply
> don't go from
> reading a book, say...Rousseau's "Encyclopedia of
> Mythology" one day
> to suddenly picking one out of the pack and deciding
> this or that
> one is in fact the truth. It's simply not done.
> --
> 
> William James made up all those examples in Varieties
> of Religious Experience? People never have conversion
> experiences?
> 
> Actually my dad is such a person.
> 
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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As Margaret Mead once said, the point is to get over such an experience.

Small child: Do you believe in God?'

Arthur Rubenstein: "Oh no, I believe in something much more wonderful..." 

[from memory, in Raymond Smullyan's "5,000B.C." book of essays]