(Notwise, very interesting and thank you for allowing all of us to rant here)
Some here might agree they’ve undergone not a few conversions great and small.
Once, as a psychology major and virgin, I experienced various (faddish) conversion-experiences. I even pushed your atheism conversion for a season. My own experience of atheistic conversion was rather appassionato if you will.
I converted back to a YEC (from OEC) this week after almost being evicted from a geology forum for ranting and calling Behe a YEC (my stupid mistake and I’m still profusely sorry to all offended).
But it now feels great to replace all my plate tectonics theories with catastrophic plate tectonics theories (involving a global flood theories). I mean, I feel like a new man transformed, resurrected, renewed, with lower cognitive dissonance, even. It’s like I dropped 100 pounds of baggage off my back or something.
Of course, the most astonishing and joyful conversion I ever underwent was becoming dead in Christ, buried in an apocalyptic earth, and risen with Christ. I recommend it to anyone as the way out of (1) sin and (2) Moses’ law of damnation to us all.
WARNING: to get permanently smoked in Christ, baptized in Christ, purged/risen in Christ (etc.) required:
1) an exceptionally hard-headed fundy evangelist to jar me into hell and back.
2) a miserably failed soul (myself) desperately trying to get permanent forgiveness and rock-meaning to life.