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Avery Dulles – A Jesuit priest, theologian, and cardinal in the
Catholic Church. He was raised Presbyterian, but was an agnostic before his conversion to Catholic Christianity.[16][17]
Dawn Eden – Rock journalist of Jewish ethnicity who went from an agnostic to a Catholic writer, who was particularly concerned with the moral values of chastity.[18][19]
Mary Karr – Memoirist and poet who switched from agnosticism to Catholicism in 1996.[33]
Ignace Lepp – French psychiatrist whose parents were freethinkers and who joined the Communist party at age fifteen. He broke with the party in 1937 and became a
Catholic priest.[34]
Arnold Lunn – A skier, mountaineer, and writer. As an agnostic he wrote Roman Converts, which took a critical view of Catholicism and the converts to it. He later converted to Catholicism due to debating with converts, and became an apologist for the faith, although he retained a few criticisms of the faith.[37]
Kirsten Powers – News commentator, raised
Episcopalian who drifted to atheism but eventually began to "view everyone as God's child and that means everyone deserves grace and respect."[57]
George R. Price – Geneticist who became an Evangelical Protestant and wrote about the
New Testament. Later he moderated his evangelistic tendencies and switched from religious writing to working with the homeless.[58][59]
Gerald Priestland – News correspondent who discusses having once been the "school atheist" in Something Understood: An Autobiography. He became a Quaker after an emotional breakdown.[60]
A. N. Wilson – Biographer and novelist who entered the theological
St Stephen's House, Oxford before proclaiming himself an atheist and writing against religion. He announced his return to Christianity in 2009.[75]
John C. Wright – A science fiction author and libertarian atheist[76] who later converted to the Catholic Faith.[77]
^Seattle Times "In 1975, he threw off his atheism and became a Christian."
^Wall Street Journal... left the Church of Sweden when he was about 18. For years he considered himself an atheist. In a recent interview with Dagens Industri, he said he'd reconsidered:
"Lately, I have decided to consider myself a Christian."
^TruTV: "He had been an atheist and had been kicked out of Columbia University for writing a play considered blasphemous."
^Sunday Times "Collins was an atheist until the age of 27, when as a young doctor he was impressed by the strength that faith gave to some of his most critical patients."
^Interview in the National Review: FMG:You've mentioned that you now believe in God. How recent is that? Eugene Genovese: It's in the last two years. You know, in The Southern Front I still spoke as an atheist; one reviewer said that I protest too much. When the book came off the press and I had to reread it, I started wrestling with the problem philosophically, and I lost.
^The Independent:Greig, who was brought up an atheist, but converted to Christianity at 30, pauses. "You could," she says, "say that that's because I believe there's a personal God, but I think it's got more layers than that. What we have to do is receive the things that happen with grace, and I'm so glad I've got someone to thank."
^The Telegraph "He was an atheist until he was 18 and his conversion sprang from a desire to rescue two friends from church."
^Spartacus Schoolnet "Although raised as an atheist, Hardie was converted to Christianity in 1897."
^Telegraph "She reacted strongly against her parents' beliefs and became a Catholic at 19, because she 'no longer found it possible to disbelieve in God.'" (pg 2)
^Near Christianity: "Hitchens describes his tumultuous journey from atheist to Christian and the moral reasoning that caused his conversion," book description
^"Finding My Religion" in the San Francisco Chronicle: "I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic— at least not under close scrutiny." "Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist."
^Beliefnet article by McGrath Quote "When I was growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the 1960s, I came to the view that God was an infantile illusion, suitable for the elderly, the intellectually feeble, and the fraudulently religious"
^Czesław Miłosz: conversations By Czesław Miłosz, Cynthia L. Haven; pg 145: Miłosz says that in his youth he came to take a "scientific, atheistic position mostly." Now he calls himself a Catholic who does not want to be thought of as a Catholic writer "Because if you are branded as a Catholic you are supposed to testify with every work of yours to follow the line of the Church, which is not necessarily my case."
^Chronicle of Higher Education article obituary(Copied by Gametheory.net) has the following "Because George was a fire-spitting atheist and Julia a devout Christian, their relationship was contentious from the beginning. After eight years, the marriage ended in acrimony." "On June 7th [1970] I gave in and admitted that God existed," he explained to friends.
^Dallas Morning News: Interviewer "You were raised as an atheist, trained as a scientist, came to Christianity as an adult and eventually became an Anglican priest."
^"...he was an atheist arguing for religious values, a man writing an essay on religion 'in a spirit of irreligion.'... He would not convert to Catholicism for two decades, but his need for religious authority was acute even in 1930." Allen Tate: Orphan of the South, p. 167, biographer Thomas A. Underwood, Princeton University Press, 2000,
ISBN0-691-06950-6
^The Guardian Quote: Even though she was raised an atheist, in the past three or four years she has been going to church. In her eighth decade, she has even submitted to being baptised.
^Advocates for self-government (A Libertarian site) says of him "A lifelong 'vehement, argumentative, proselytizing atheist,' Wright suffered a heart attack in 2003 and soon afterwards had a 'supernatural' religious experience that made him, he wrote, 'aware of a spiritual dimension of reality of which I had hitherto been unaware... I was altered down to the root of my being.' Wright at first became a Protestant Christian
^John C. Wright's livejournal "After three years of prayer, thought, and debate, and an honest attempt to follow where the spirit leads me, I am joining the Catholic Church this Easter."
Moved back
Although I understand the idea of the move if you feel people are improperly being labeled" former atheists" than you can remove them. Also the move name was a bit clunky as it could seem to have indicated they were raised non-religious and that wasn't always the case either. I intended to be on my Christmas break, but noticed this and felt it couldn't wait.--
T. Anthony (
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02:43, 25 December 2012 (UTC)reply
Move ideas
As there are some issues with the article here are some ideas on a move.
List of converts to Christianity from nontheism
List of converts to Christianity from atheism or agnosticism
List of converts to Christianity from irreligion
List of converts to Christianity from non-religious backgrounds (The move I undid)
It's not Epiphany yet, but I made the move. I wish there had been some discussion, that's why I objected to the one move, but I had opened it for such for around a week. If there are any objections that's fine.--
T. Anthony (
talk)
01:33, 5 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Sub-category
Hello, I think this list is very interesting, but I that it would be better to categorize by denominations... especially to put together catholics and in other sub-category non catholics.
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Goose friend (
talk)
02:13, 10 February 2013 (UTC)reply
I'd work on that, but alas I mostly give up the Internet for Lent so I'm not sure I'll have the time. Maybe. Also when you add a name it's better to have a source. Was Tolstoy not a theist before his religious awakening?--
T. Anthony (
talk)
06:16, 10 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Okay I did after all. I don't know if I did it right, but I'll look at it later. I'm sorry to you for taking out Tolstoy, but I haven't found a source. I may put him back when/if I do.--
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talk)
13:13, 10 February 2013 (UTC)reply
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I think this page is nothing but a christian apologetic page: its only purpose it to make the impression that important people converts to christianity. As a list it has no place at wikipedia.,
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