Misplaced Pages

List of former atheists and agnostics: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 00:44, 1 November 2013 edit79.97.101.246 (talk) →Atheists who became an unspecified/uncertain form of theism or deism← Previous edit Revision as of 15:21, 22 January 2014 edit undoChean siven (talk | contribs)20 editsNo edit summaryTag: section blankingNext edit →
Line 25: Line 25:
*] - Comics writer and ]. He converted to, or created, his own mixture of ]s.<ref></ref><ref></ref> *] - Comics writer and ]. He converted to, or created, his own mixture of ]s.<ref></ref><ref></ref>
*] - Media mogul who stated that he is no longer an atheist or an agnostic. He has not embraced any specific religion.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-04-01-turner-churches_N.htm|title=Ted Turner apologizes, joins churches' $200M malaria fight|date=2008-04-01|work=USA Today|publisher=Associated Press|accessdate=2009-10-27}}</ref> *] - Media mogul who stated that he is no longer an atheist or an agnostic. He has not embraced any specific religion.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-04-01-turner-churches_N.htm|title=Ted Turner apologizes, joins churches' $200M malaria fight|date=2008-04-01|work=USA Today|publisher=Associated Press|accessdate=2009-10-27}}</ref>

== Former agnostics ==

=== Agnostics who converted to Judaism ===
*], Nobel prize-winning chemist who converted from "orthodox agnosticism" to Orthodox Judaism.<ref></ref>


==See also== ==See also==

Revision as of 15:21, 22 January 2014

Not to be confused with List of atheists.

For lists of atheists who converted to Christianity, Islam, Judaism or Baha'i see the following links:

All other former atheists and agnostics that have been listed so far are below.


Former atheists

Atheists who converted to Hinduism

Atheists who became an unspecified/uncertain form of theism or deism

  • Gabrielle Carey - Australian author of Puberty Blues who was raised atheist but converted to Catholicism and then explored other theologies.
  • Antony Flew - Philosopher and one of the most respected atheist thinkers of the 20th century, became a deist.
  • Moses Hess - Socialist philosopher and Left Hegelian who first influenced Karl Marx in his criticism of religion, but who later tried to combine the pantheism of Baruch Spinoza with Hegelianism.
  • Anne Rice - Best-selling American author of Gothic and religious-themed books. She returned to Catholicism, and remained as such for many years, but has since announced that although she still believes in God and in Christ she no longer considers herself a Christian.
  • J. Neil Schulman - Libertarian science fiction writer who states he met, or experienced, God and that this ended his atheism. The first such experience would have occurred when he was 35. That stated he remains skeptical of "the church" and does not belong to any religion.
  • Dave Sim - Comics writer and anti-feminist. He converted to, or created, his own mixture of Abrahamic religions.
  • Ted Turner - Media mogul who stated that he is no longer an atheist or an agnostic. He has not embraced any specific religion.

See also

References

  1. Besant, Annie. The Building of the Kosmos and Other Lectures: Delivered at the Eighteenth. The Path, 1894.
  2. "John Dobson: Amateur Astronomy's Revolutionary". space.com.
  3. Wall Street Journal Article about John
  4. Goel, Sita Ram, "How I became a Hindu"
  5. ABC Australia.
  6. The Australian
  7. BBC Interview Quote: "What I was converted to was the existence of an Aristotelian God, and Aristotle's God had no interest in human affairs at all."
  8. Moses Hess: The Holy History of Mankind and other writings
  9. Christianity Today
  10. LA Times
  11. Baltimore Sun: My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been or might become.
  12. Interview with Schulman: "After a thorough analysis of my previous life's experiences, and later experiences that lent validation, I concluded that the reality was that what had happened to me were really encounters with God -- therefore proving God's existence to me."
  13. Village Voice
  14. Sun Comics
  15. "Ted Turner apologizes, joins churches' $200M malaria fight". USA Today. Associated Press. 2008-04-01. Retrieved 2009-10-27.
Categories: