I already told you that information is published. I wrote it precisely so I wouldn’t have to keep repeating it. See Sense and Goodness without God.

You were in Taoism. What was in Taoism that you were a Taoist?
For what positive arguments in Atheism you converted to it from Taoism?
Please

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Oh, I’m sorry, so you have thoroughly researched and investigated Zoroastrianism and Scientology?

I did not have any belief or faith in Methodism. I have only ever had belief or faith in one religion: Taoism. That is compatible with all the data you cite. You seem to be confusing cultural behaviors with faith-beliefs.

The only conversions I have undergone were to Taoism and then to scientific naturalism.

I explain why I underwent both in Sense and Goodness without God. If you really want to understand that, read it.

The tool given by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is simple and reasonable; you will agree.

The only principled tools are these. Everything else is bullshit.

The information that your parents were Methodists and you used to go to that Church and then became a Taoist at the age of 15 and then became an Atheist at the age of 21 is available on your site.

Please correct it if it is not true.

You are a renowned scholar while I am only an ordinary man. I want to know as to why did you get converted two times; must be some principled approach in your mind. You cannot do it haphazardly.

Please write on this topic in detail. Without comparative study of religions and or no-religion under a principled tool one cannot get to the truth.

The tool given by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is simple and reasonable; you will agree.

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“nor does it appear that you have properly investigated competing religious claims even as much as I have”

How do you know that?

Please elaborate.

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Huh? I have only ever had one religion (being in a Methodist family did not make me a Methodist; as I wrote, I was never a believer). And I abandoned it by the only principles approach there is.

You, however, don’t seem to be endorsing anything like a principled approach, nor does it appear that you have properly investigated competing religious claims even as much as I have.

I don’t agree with you that everybody gets converted to another religion without a proper principled approach, irrationally.

I understand your observation, “There are thousands of false beliefs. We cannot read all their holy books nor should we.”

One could be born in any religion or even without a religion. It is beyond one to decide where to be born. Wherever one is born; that starts one’s journey towards truth.

The tools make easy for one to do a job. It is therefore important for one first to find a tool that gives equal opportunity to every religion to search.

Using a tool and then making a comparative study of religions to find which one, at a given period of time, is the most truthful religion is therefore most reasonable and rational.

I give here one such principle of comparative study of religions which was suggested by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad- the Promised Messiah 1835-1908 in the beginning of an essay that was read in a Conference of Great Religions held at Lahore in 1896; and was later published in a book form titled “The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam” translated in many languages of the world.

I give below the principle in precisely his words:

“It is necessary that a claim and the reasons in support of it must be set forth from a revealed book”.
“I consider it essential that everyone who follows a book, believing it to be revealed, should base his exposition upon that book and should not so extend the scope of his advocacy of his faith as if he is compiling a new book.”

Since one changed one’s religion two times without a principled approach; I think one should check again the truthfulness of one’s worldview from the start.

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Taoism, I was converted the same irrational way all religious people are. Leaving Taoism? Reading, study, experience, and application of scientific knowledge and logical reasoning.

One of those actually works. I’ll let you try to guess which.

I understand that you were born a Methodist Christian and decided to convert to Taoism at a very tender age of 15 years and then converted to Atheism at the age of 21 years.
Under what principled approach you did that on both occasions?

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