Logic writes:
So of all the people to join have any of you:
1) Been converted
Aye.
I started as a devout Catholic, then a devout Catholic and devout Southern Baptist (yes, strange...). Then I started thinking about things and none of it made much sense. I became mostly-agnostic before I found EvC. About 2 years before I became a member of the board, however, I read pages and pages of posts. Crashfrog, Jar, Ringo, Nosy Ned, Moose (in their non-admin modes), Percy, Rej, Ben, Phat...
it was mostly the atheists that made the most sense to me. But certain believers had excellent points as well. It certainly became very easy to see that there was a lot of knowledge I was unaware of. Over those 2 years, I moved from kinda-agnostic to firmly-agnostic. And then I started posting. During my posting I've moved from firmly-agnostic to pretty-much-an-atheist to firmly-atheist.
As for converting others... it really doesn't cross my mind much. My reasons for coming to this site are mostly selfish. I come here to test thoughts and ideas of my own. I propose them, expecting them to be criticized (which is what I want), and then adjust them as necessary as better ideas become apparent to me.
People "on the other side" aren't so much targets for conversion as they are valuable, possible falsifiers of my own ideas.
When I have an idea, and "the other side" isn't capable of falsifying it, I gain confidence in it's validity.