Leah has written less than one might hope on her reasons for converting, and basically nothing on how she now deals with all the usual atheist objections to Christian belief. Her primary reason for conversion appears to have been that Christianity fits better than atheism with the moral system she has always found most believable.
Someone who I think is an LW participant (but I don’t know for sure, and I don’t know under what name) wrote this fairly lengthy apologia for atheism; I think it was a sort of open letter to his friends and family explaining why he was leaving Christianity.
In the course of my own transition from Christianity to atheism I wrote up a lot of notes (approximately as many words as one paperback book), attempting to investigate the issue as open-mindedly as I could. (When I started writing them I was a Christian; when I stopped I was an atheist.) I intermittently think I should put them up on the web, but so far haven’t done so.
There are any number of books looking more or less rigorously at questions like “does a god exist?” and “is Christianity right?”. In just about every case, the author(s) take a quite definite position and are writing to persuade more than to explore, so they tend not to be, nor to feel, unbiased. Graham Oppy’s “Arguing about gods” is pretty even-handed, but quite technical. J L Mackie’s “The miracle of theism” is definitely arguing on the atheist side but generally very fair to the other guys, and shows what I think is a good tradeoff between rigour and approachability—but it’s rather old and doesn’t address a number of the arguments that one now hears all the time when Christians and atheists argue. The “Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology” is a handy collection of Christians’ arguments for the existence of God (and in some cases for more than that); not at all unbiased but its authors are at least generally trying to make sound arguments rather than just to sound persuasive.
Leah has written less than one might hope on her reasons for converting, and basically nothing on how she now deals with all the usual atheist objections to Christian belief. Her primary reason for conversion appears to have been that Christianity fits better than atheism with the moral system she has always found most believable.
Someone who I think is an LW participant (but I don’t know for sure, and I don’t know under what name) wrote this fairly lengthy apologia for atheism; I think it was a sort of open letter to his friends and family explaining why he was leaving Christianity.
In the course of my own transition from Christianity to atheism I wrote up a lot of notes (approximately as many words as one paperback book), attempting to investigate the issue as open-mindedly as I could. (When I started writing them I was a Christian; when I stopped I was an atheist.) I intermittently think I should put them up on the web, but so far haven’t done so.
There are any number of books looking more or less rigorously at questions like “does a god exist?” and “is Christianity right?”. In just about every case, the author(s) take a quite definite position and are writing to persuade more than to explore, so they tend not to be, nor to feel, unbiased. Graham Oppy’s “Arguing about gods” is pretty even-handed, but quite technical. J L Mackie’s “The miracle of theism” is definitely arguing on the atheist side but generally very fair to the other guys, and shows what I think is a good tradeoff between rigour and approachability—but it’s rather old and doesn’t address a number of the arguments that one now hears all the time when Christians and atheists argue. The “Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology” is a handy collection of Christians’ arguments for the existence of God (and in some cases for more than that); not at all unbiased but its authors are at least generally trying to make sound arguments rather than just to sound persuasive.