Our we experiencing the fifth great awakening? How many of you used to be atheists? I know I was one and I assume most people on a chan have similar stories.

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Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 20:19:20 0216e8 No.648144

Our we experiencing the fifth great awakening? How many of you used to be atheists? I know I was one and I assume most people on a chan have similar stories.

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 20:32:57 83912c No.648155

>>648144

Yep, used to be atheist. My parents aren't atheists but they aren't really religious either so I was raised without any real spiritual guidance. Started reading about world religion and philosophy when I was 15 and converted to Christianity when I was 17.

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 20:35:58 a728d4 No.648158

>>648144

My parents are christian, I am not. Do you see how this winnie the pooh works yet? You just need a group to cling to, and this group gives you that. Be individuals, think for yourselves, question authority.

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 20:37:29 0216e8 No.648163

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>>648155

How old are you now, if you don't mind me asking?

I was raised catholic but went atheist at 15 and spent the next 8 years in that state of mind until last year when I began learning about baptists. Now I'm planning on getting baptized soon.

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 20:38:33 83912c No.648164

>>648163

I'm 20 now. I belong to a Baptist church.

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 20:40:31 0216e8 No.648166

>>648158

Why are you here then?

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 20:42:22 18628a No.648169

Not Christian, but reading up and learning scripture as it triggers fedoras like nothing else and most people nowadays are tippers.

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 20:47:05 c5001b No.648171

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>>648158

>Be individuals, think for yourselves, question authority

Says the atheist

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 20:48:58 31c1fb No.648172

>>648158

You know that God's existence can and has been logically proven numerous times right?

And that there are little atheist arguments that are actually good? And that no atheist has solved the infinite regress problem that crops up in all atheist beliefs concerning the origin of the universe? And how even those beliefs don't explain the origin of reality itself?

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 21:09:34 bf05be No.648181

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>parents are (orthodox) baptized

>parents move to a non-christian country

>I come to the world

>they raise me secularly

>become a fedora tipper at 12-13

>a couple of years pass

>start to get interested in humanities and history

>become a neo-"""pagan"""

>after rejecting Christianity for a while I finally pick up a Bible

>constantly try to fight God's word and keep telling myself none of it makes sense

>somehow hear about 'mere christianity'

>read some of it

>read about the trilemma

>finally accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and saviour

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 21:35:10 f22c2b No.648187

>>648158

B8 of the week

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 21:35:57 f22c2b No.648188

>>648163

>>648164

Turn around before you commit apostasy

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 22:31:17 3cdafa No.648208

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>>648158

>anyone who doesn't come to the same conclusion as me is incapable of thinking for themselves

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 22:40:59 0520bc No.648213

The stats don't lie. Church attendance is going down.

I do think a few are becoming more radicalized on average, because the lukewarms simply stop believing because soyence.

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 23:02:49 74aac6 No.648216

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>>648144

Not yet.

Obscure chans like ours are fringe stuff.

But given my research into history, especially trends in the West, we are moving towards it.

First comes some great desacralisation, with a lot of deists/atheists, then people start getting into the occult pretty badly, from spiritualism to eastern religions to other things(see cracked article at bottom for it happening), then they start rejecting that stuff, parallel to christian revival movements, which brings back the balance.

Edgy reactionary movements will be abortive attempts.

The rise of Islam is screwing my calculations, but God knows how He will deal with that.

http://www.cracked.com/article_25570_5-surprising-ways-america-actually-moving-backwards.html

Christanon 05/15/18 (Tue) 23:46:59 9fa205 No.648233

>>648158

>Be individuals, think for yourselves, question authority.

I did all of this. That's why I'm a Christian/

Christanon 05/16/18 (Wed) 01:14:03 50f663 No.648254

>>648216

I remember when cracked used to write amusing articles and provide interesting trivia. They are so utterly pozzed these days.

Christanon 05/16/18 (Wed) 04:58:23 1e591d No.648316

>>648144

>Went to Christian school as a kid, wholeheartedly believe whole lacking in understanding

>College years came, bought into the winnie the pooh le enlightenment and science meme like an egotistical dimwit I was

>Life became a trainwreck because I was an edgelord

>Stumbled across this place out of blue

>Slowly remember that the Lord is always there for me

>Had an epiphany, answers and shattered pieces of myself starts to make sense and are coming together

>Return to the fold with more clarity and understanding

While I still have to deal with bad habits from atheist years (leftover wreckage from hedonistic lifestyle), praise the Lord for He did not forsake me, a lowly sinner, to die in a ditch or a gutter, but have raised me up.

Christanon 05/16/18 (Wed) 05:48:03 943b5f No.648343

I was raised by a single mother atheist wanted to kill myself every day of my life i also live in a 41% non religious country similar story for some of my friends

Christanon 05/16/18 (Wed) 06:02:37 983e93 No.648350

>>648346

>>core spiritual tenets are evil

lol what?

Christanon 05/16/18 (Wed) 07:48:12 74aac6 No.648385

>>648254

Yeah.

Sad, i used to recommend them.

The fact that they still source their listicles(that aren't opinion pieces) makes them useful sometimes.

Christanon 05/16/18 (Wed) 19:54:45 0216e8 No.648609

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>>648188

Christanon 05/16/18 (Wed) 20:01:27 df0070 No.648614

>>648144

Well, I was a deist, atheism was always illogical so long as the universe had a beginning.

I wonder if they're having the same experience in leftist circles, idk, maybe their crazy murder cult spews out wrongthinkers like a gatling gun

Christanon 05/16/18 (Wed) 20:11:37 df0070 No.648626

>>648158

1) Why are you here?

2) All the authorities say Christianity = bad, secular = good

3) Because of point 2, you're a dumb cuck,

4) Not only are you dumb and a cuckold, you have proven it by coming to a place on the internet for people who intend to cuck you, discussing how they will cuck you.

Christanon 05/16/18 (Wed) 20:19:24 df0070 No.648630

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>>648171

>What Atheists think

Christanon 05/16/18 (Wed) 20:21:43 df0070 No.648637

>>648169

Careful what you call yourself, or you might become it lol

Christanon 05/17/18 (Thu) 00:10:27 5a250e No.648764

>>648609

>ur traditions suck X)

>500 years later, women priests

o luther!