There will be a TV show on tonight at 10:30pm eastern/ 7:30pm pacific time about atheists who converted to Christianity. The show is called "The Journey Home" on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) channel, and this will be a special episode featuring a roundtable of former atheists talking about their conversion stories. There will even be a former atheist who used to live his life as a homosexual who converted to Christianity and has since then rejected his former lifestyle.
Best selling novelist, Ann Rice, is another former atheist who recently converted to Christianity and has returned to the Catholic Church. She said, "I went back to the Catholic Church after 30 years of being an atheist. And I realized that I wanted to write just about Jesus Christ for the rest of my career, in one way or another."
interview:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/01/earlyshow/leisure/books/main999907.shtml
Excerpt from Ann Rice book:
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn
2006-06-18 13:51:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It does not bother me either way. Some christians and other theists turn atheist, so it's only "fair" that some atheists turn theist. :-) It happens.
Plus, it's their lives. I don't want to judge them on their choices, even if I might disagree. Only thing I ask is....will their choice(s) make them a better person than they were before? If so, I am all for it.
2006-06-18 22:23:33 · answer #1 · answered by Nikki 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, not a least little bit of curiosity can I find in me to find out why someone such an Ann Rice decided to rejoin her abandoned faith. I was never that impressed by her, no matter what her religious philosophy was.
Anthony Flew, on the other hand, would be very interesting. I would truly like to know what cosmological argument made him become a pantheist after such a long time as an atheist.
2006-06-18 14:20:52 · answer #2 · answered by Rev. Still Monkeys 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a they arent really intelligent atheists are they?
b because atheists are just as closed minded as a christian fundamentalist.
look at all the evil christians have done throughout history and even today and ask yourself, do you really want to be like them?
Matthew 10:34 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword."
Jesus and Jehova were war Gods i think ill pass.
Im not atheist but i will stick up for anyone that understands the issue of Maltheism: Maltheism is the belief that God exists as a cruel, arrogant, abusive, and untruthful being who is not worthy of worship. The problem of evil does not prove to a maltheist that God does not exist, but rather proves that God is a liar.
2006-06-18 13:57:48 · answer #3 · answered by brianna_the_angel777 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good for them, I'm glad they were able to find a religion that suited them and made them happy. But there is absolutely nothing wrong with being homosexual.
And, uh, if I were you, I would stop bashing all the atheists and people who are different than you, because for all your preaching about the Christian way and how you are somehow better, you'll be seen as the worst kind of hypocrite.
2006-06-21 08:02:11 · answer #4 · answered by nunovyorebiznis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe intelligence has anything to do with ones personal religious beliefs. Do you think God makes you take an IQ test before you get by the Pearly Gates?
I have become closer to God as a Catholic in the last few years and I'm a total dingbat.
2006-06-18 14:10:16 · answer #5 · answered by Sarah Jane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Conversion is spiritual not logical in nature!!!! try out this site.
For the Guy that talked about someone with a mental illness ...you should know if someone believed they were Christ they would be very sick a nd likely Schizophrinic hey did I spell that right ?
2006-06-18 17:12:25 · answer #6 · answered by Sunshine* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm more curious why people who suffer from some forms of mental illness, believe they are Christ.
Atheists, are you curious to know why some very intelligent atheists are converting to Christianity?
I assume from this that those that don't are stupid in your opinion.
Just another anti-Atheist posting from you, what a surprise.
2006-06-18 14:25:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I'm concerned, anybody can have any faith that they want. If someone has changed their mind about their belief in god, fine. It doesn't affect what I believe.
Are you paying as much attention to intelligent christians who have become atheists?
2006-06-18 13:55:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
C.S. Lewis was once a strong atheist. He was the writer of Narnia and alot of other great Christian books
2006-06-18 13:55:21 · answer #9 · answered by Bryan G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To bad about Anne Rice. She used to rock and now she's just another old catholic lady. :,( Oh and those "reformed" gays are the biggest liars of them all.
2006-06-18 13:55:19 · answer #10 · answered by korngoddess1027 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋