I suspect your reason for not wanting to share your answer is because it will betray the fact you were never atheist. People don't choose their beliefs, and claiming to be a former skeptic / atheist doesn't give you any street cred here n CF. if you were truly interested in my deconversion, you would have asked, rather than project with the "religion not pleasing me" BS.
You're absolutely sure that you know the content of other people's minds? Absolutely sure that you know the past? Because that would be an extraordinary claim. No one knows these things for certain. "I was an atheist" might be true, but we can't know that, and we can't know that "I am an atheist" or "I am a Christian" is true. These statements aren't necessarily false, they just don't prove anything.
I have no idea what he, you, or anybody else actually believe, only what they claim to believe. I would never presume to project my opinion on another. In case you weren't following our exchange, he proceeded to project his reason for why I deconverted from Christianity, which wasn't even close. I responded in kind. I have no idea or not if he was ever atheist or not, however, my Spidey senses begin to tingle when I hear the 'I was an atheist/skeptic/agnostic, then god answered my prayer, and now I believe.' I call this the Lee Strobel canard, and I am incredulous of these explanations.
We are constantly getting by on trust, to function in the world as social animals - we go into public spaces hoping, but not knowing, that no one there will suddenly lash out violently. So we get by on assumptions. Beyond arithmetic I'm not seeing a lot of room for absolute certainty in the realm of beliefs, especially in the vitally important but essentially contested areas of meaning.
You have to understand the concept of God to deny his existence. An ability that infants do not have.
