This seems quite clearly to be talking about reading books like The God Delusion, not visiting the Converts’ Corner.

“As for the second quote you cited, my position for a professing Christian to seek pastoral counsel is no more an excellent way of one maintaining their faith than of atheists finding a place to maintain their unbelief.”

Agreed. So in both cases, the most important thing to do if someone is having doubts about either is to talk to (or read things by) earnest people on both sides of the fence. I would not have much respect for the opinions of an atheist who never confronted themselves directly with theistic arguments. By the same token, I would not to have a lot of respect for the opinions a theist who didn’t confront themselves directly with Atheists’ account of why they don’t believe.

Dawkins was asking people to share their loss or lack of faith. He was asking them for a celebration of such a lack. There is a reason I said folks there weren’t looking for reasons to believe.

As for the second quote you cited, my position for a professing Christian to seek pastoral counsel is no more an excellent way of one maintaining their faith than of atheists finding a place to maintain their unbelief.

That’s not the impression I get at all. Most of them look like they were looking for truthful answers to important questions. Some of them expected their faith to be reinforced and others expected it to be challenged and others were simply curious. There’s a much, much wider variety than you suggest.

“If one is truly struggling with their faith as a Christian they should seek counsel ultimately from their pastor(s) not from anti-Christian literature.”

That’s an excellent way of maintaining your faith, but it’s not a good way of finding out whether or not your faith is based on assumptions that are true. To find out whether or not something is true, it makes the most sense to look at all the different perspectives on an issue. I’m an Atheist, but I make sure to routinely talk to and read literature by committed believers for exactly this reason. If I were to only ever read things by other Atheists, it would be an excellent way of reinforcing my positions on related issues, but it would be a terrible way of knowing whether or not my positions reflected reality.