[mistermann]

> For example, I've seen some ex-christians who decided to turn atheists by learning more about cognitive biases, and then realizing that some of their former religious arguments were circular reasoning or appeal to authority or whatever.

Similarly, there are some people (a much smaller number I would expect) that have moved from atheism to "spirituality", for the same reasons.

[lhorie]

Yeah, I'm one of those, though I'm not sure my belief system qualifies as spirituality. The gist in these cases is realizing that atheism is not the opposite of christianity (in the sense that there ought to be a conflict between two incompatible ideologies) and that there's quite a bit more depth and breadth to theism, moral frameworks and philosophy in general than the who-is-more-right crowd might think.

[mistermann]

Totally agree - my general take on it is that standard Atheism and Christianity/etc (as understood & practiced by the average person) are incredibly simplistic, but most people in either ideological camp are fairly oblivious to it.