Changing Minds

Wikipedia's co-founder converts:

The growing obnoxious nature of what Sanger terms “New Atheism” turned him away even further. Within the growing anti-Christian sentiment online, he found Christians carried themselves with far more “maturity and grace, while their critics often acted like obnoxious trolls.” Sanger found himself debating and challenging those hosting anti-Christian sentiments online, including on forums like Quora and his own personal blog. He turned away from reading deeply into texts written against faith, not because of the subject matter, but because the arguments were “just so transparently mediocre.” “After enough years of dealing with these “adepts,” the thought slowly dawned on me: maybe, just maybe, I too had been indoctrinated, in a way. Perhaps I had misunderstood things I only thought I had understood. Perhaps I had not been exposed to the best representatives of the faith. In short, perhaps, I had not given Christianity a fair shake. And yes, I couched this in terms of “Christianity” to myself: I never found any interest in other religions. This thought sat uncomfortably in the back of my mind for many years,” Sanger continues.

He saw the light...