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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was an atheist who lost faith, and then found faith, after many years.

I think faith or lack of faith can ebb and flow. [/quote]

I think so, too.  [/quote]

I disagree.

[b]Once you look objectively and see there is no evidence for god (by the definitions of god most used) there really is no ebb or flow.[/b]

It's actually wonderful, liberating, and permanent - at least until some evidence arises.[/quote]

There was definitely ebb and flow in my case too, so that makes three of us on this thread.[/quote]

What evidence did you find that made you “ebb and flow” back to faith?

Forgive my presumption, but I assume you mean you fought between your acknowledgment that there is insufficient evidence and some other emotion?  Is that accurate?

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This is the PP you responded to. People change. I'm not sure why you feel the need to break this down to digest it? You seem rigid, not rational.[/quote]

[b]It’s irrational to want to know what your reasoning was?[/b]

If you don’t want to say, that’s fine that’s your prerogative. But please don’t pretend that it’s not a perfectly logical question.  If you don’t answer it, people will make their own assumption as to why.

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Your approach to faith is paradoxical. You're demanding the recipe for faith, but there isn't one. A few years ago I was 100% convinced there was no God. [b]To my surprise my faith has grown, [/b]but not as a result of my own efforts. [/quote]
So what hap?[/quote]
DP, but with a similar ebb and flow experience. In my case, nothing [i]happened[/i] necessarily to bring me back to religion. I suppose that time and distance from the things that drove me away from religion helped to clarify some of my perceptions of humanity and the world? And a maturing understanding that some things in life are gray, and that science/reason and faith are not a binary that I need to choose between.

I apologize to OP for going off-topic. I know the this was meant to be a thread for atheist testimony and losing faith, not for finding it again. I would make the same comment on the "finding religion" thread, FWIW. People change and our understanding of the world and relationship to the concept of the divine change too. To say that faith is lost and gone forever or found without future misgivings feels too rigid for human nature. People change and grow.[/quote]

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