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Why are christians so desperate to deny those who became Atheists were ever christians? [Spirituality & Religion]

I used to be a devout christian but, after seriously studying the bible and examining my faith, determined it was all BS. I found the bible to be nothing more than a jumble of myths and superstitions taken from various older belief systems and frequently contradictory. As a result of my studies, I became an Atheist.

Now I find some christians are desperate to deny I was ever a christian. They just can't accept the fact that a christian could ever break away from "the truth" (as they like to call their beliefs) to become an Atheist. The idea is so alien to them they deny it's even possible. They even claim to know what the person experienced better than that person knows. Another claim is that I couldn't have studied the bible "properly" and that I should ask (their) "god" for help. What are they so scared of?
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@suzie1960 I find it ironic in the extreme that those who believe don't actually know how belief works. They many claim it is a choice but that is stupid. To believe in something you have to be convinced it is true. You can't just choose to believe or not believe. A fundamentalist can't choose not to be one unless convinced and another person can't believe in God by choice.
Also I hate the word faith. It should actually be translated as trust because that is what it means in the contexts. People use the word faith like it is some type of currency or magic mana system that you can store up enough to do things. But even Jesus rejected this idea with the mustard seed parable. In that story he is saying that you can move literal mountains (do the impossible) if you have faith (trust in God). So it is not your faith that you can cash in to move them but your trust that God will move them for you. You are not doing the impossible because you have magic faith but because you are trusting in God to use his magic.
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@canusernamebemyusername [quote] I find it ironic in the extreme that those who believe don't actually know how belief works.[/quote]

Really?

[quote]To believe in something you have to be convinced it is true.[/quote]

You got that right so far. Belief follows truth.

[quote]You can't just choose to believe or not believe. [/quote]

You seem to be doing that very well.

[quote]A fundamentalist can't choose not to be one unless convinced and another person can't believe in God by choice.[/quote]

You're partially right. God, Yahweh, has revealed Himself to mankind, the evidence of His work is all around us. Yet, He gives us the freedom to choose to believe the truth, that He does live, or believe the lie, that He doesn't live.

[quote]Also I hate the word faith.[/quote]

Why do you hate faith?
@GodSpeed63 🤦‍♀️
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M