Any Atheists converted to Christian? Curious?

Question

I am a former christian that was able to un-brainwash myself and turn atheist.

I am just curious is any former athiests have converted to christianity, and Why?

If you have converted to Christianity. Tell me WHY?? don't just say that you did. I am curious as to what could possibly make an Atheist believe in a diety. And also why you chose that particular diety and not another. Like Zeus or the Easter Bunny.

Answer 1

OK someone said something and i want to put in my two cents


"There is no such thing as a Christian turned atheist. If you truly believed there was a God and believed in His Deity, you would not just wake up one day and not believe."


Oh really, Ive met plenty in my time, I for one am an ex christian(gone Pagan but ive met a few ex christians that went atheist), actually it took months to deprogram myself to what that horrible religion did to my brain. But one day i did wake up and realize that i was no longer christian.

Back to the loud mouth christian with air in her head: I guess we dont exist since theres a logical fallacy in your judgment, yes i used the word judgement, christians arent supposed to judge others because they lack a high enough IQ to judge properly.

Answer 2

I don't wear a big sign that says "I'm an Atheist," so most people don't bother me about it. The past has taught me that, when people do know, conversion attempts can sometimes be non-stop. That's why I don't tell anybody. I don't talk religion with people if I can avoid it. It's the only way I can avoid being dishonest and avoid conversion tactics. I still get knocks on the door every Saturday. I think some weekends I could set a watch by the regularity (around 11:05 AM). I still walk by people handing out Bibles, and there are still little notes and pamphlets that I still find in public restrooms. My brother, (a Christian in high school), actually had a stranger walk up to him at work and hand him a religiously-based pamphlet on teen pregnancy, insisting that he needs the guidance within. My brother is not dating, nor does he plan on starting. The man then walked out, having had no purpose other than hand a pamphlet to my brother. What all of these have in common is that they are attempts to convert. They may not be present daily and they may lack a "personal touch," but they are still common.

Answer 3

I was an atheist for 20 years, because I had grown up in the public school system that brainwashed me to believe in evolution, and it was also all over TV and in my brother's nature books. When I was an adult, I was an outspoken evolutionist and I knew all the arguments. I would go online and tell Christians how stupid they were for believing creationism.
Eventually, I met a guy who was a Catholic from birth, but he dabbled in New Age stuff that was really scary and crazy. I got to know his parents, who were really sweet people, but full of pains. I didn't want to get involved in his New Age stuff, but I did start going to Mass with them just to be polite. I still didn't really "believe". However, one day I went with them to his niece's baptism, and I saw all these people in the pews before the service started who were kneeling and praying earnestly. It seemed like they knew or had something that I didn't. I decided to take a chance and I said a little prayer to myself, "God, if you're really there, how come all these people seem to have the Holy Spirit and I don't? Please tell me how I can get it too." After that, I sat back, and felt relieved. When the priest began the homily, it was about "How to get the Holy Spirit"! I was totally floored. I don't believe in those kinds of coincidences, and I believed that God was trying to communicate with me. Tears started streaming down my face, and I asked God then to come into my heart and save me and make me a new person. He did, and ever since then I have been a changed person. The old me who used to do and think bad things no longer exists. I've been a Christian now for about 7 years. In the year or two after I became a Christian, I was still growing because I still believed in evolution! I thought that the evidence for it was so overwhelming as to be impossible to deny. At the time, I had left the Catholic Church and found a new church. I told my new pastor what I believed, and he gave me a CD-ROM of a Creation Science seminar by Dr. Kent Hovind. It was a 15-hour seminar, so I watched one session every day, and this guy made more sense about creation than anything I'd ever heard about evolution. By the time I finished watching the seminar series, I dropped evolution like a hot potato and devoted my life entirely to Christ. I knew I could now entirely trust the Bible, and that the book of Genesis was scientifically accurate. Since then, I have had a great desire to reach out to other atheists who believe as I did. In fact, I would like very much to teach creation science at a local community college. I know there was a reason why God let me be an atheist for 20 years, and this must be it.

Answer 4

I was an Atheist who became Christian. I honestly didn't want to at the beginning but it seemed like suddenly God was everywhere and no matter how much I tried to rationalize Him away, nothing worked... He wouldn't take no for an answer. So in the end I converted because of my personal experience of God. Looking back, I'm very thankful that He was so insistent with me.

Oh, and people who doubt your original conversion are wrong. Only you and God know for sure if you were a true Christian in the past or not.

Answer 5

Sorry that this is copy and paste, however I think that this is an important article for you to have.

Former Atheist Says God Exists
By: Cliff Kinkaid (Editor of the AIM Report)
Insight On The News
December 21, 2004
Dallas morning News ( I think, but Associated Press for sure.)

It didn't make news, on the front or back pages of leading American newspapers, but Professor Antony Flew, a prominent British philosopher who is considered the world's best-known atheist, has cited advancements in science as proof of the existence of God. This is comparable to Hugh Hefner announcing that he is becoming a celibate.

At a symposium sponsored by the Institute for Metascientific Research, Flew said he has come to believe in God based on developments in DNA research. Flew, author of the book, Darwinian Evolution, declared, "What I think the DNA material has done is show that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements together. The enormous complexity by which the results were achieved look to me like the work of intelligence."

Associated Press distributed a December 9 story by religion writer Richard N. Ostling about Flew's conversion. Flew told AP that his current ideas had some similarity with those of U.S. "intelligent design" theorists, who believe the complexity of life points to an intelligent source of life, rather than the random and natural processes posited by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Mr. Flew's best-known plaint for atheism, "Theology and Falsification," was delivered in 1950 to the Socratic Club, chaired by none other than C.S. Lewis. This paper went on to become the most widely reprinted philosophical publication of the last five decades and set the agenda for modern atheism.

Now, in a remarkable reversal, Mr. Flew holds that the universe was brought into being by an infinite intelligence.

Given the conventional wisdom of some psychologists that people rarely, if ever, change their worldview after the age of 30, this radical new position adopted by an 81-year-old thinker may seem startling.

Hope this helps

Bryan

P.S. Since I only get one post, I also want to tell you about my wife. Mary was an avowed Atheist. This was several years before we met. She was a professor at the University of Hartford. She was also in an abusive marriage. Her husband told her that if she ever left him he would take the two daughters and go back to the middle east. After an abusive session, she decided to leave. But where to go? In one of her classes was an older lady. Mary asked if she could stay there. That was no problem. Mary and her girls moved in. That lady was a Christian.

Over the next period of time Mary filed for divorce. To make a long story short her husband got the girls and took them to the middle east. Mary was frantic. The Christian lady said that she would have her church pray. Mary thought that nothing could be done, but the church prayed. Two weeks later she got a call from her husband saying that she could pick up the girls at the airport. (She found out later that when her husband arrived home in the middle east, the oldest sister asked where Mary was. when he could not give an adequate answer, he was told that he was not welcome unless Mary was there too. This is unheard of in that culture.)

As she was driving to the airport, Mary uttered her first prayer. It went something like this. "God, if you exist, tell me what I should do!!!" A calm like she had never experienced before settled over her. In her words it was uncanny. Calmly she met with her husband took back the girls. Since that day there is nothing that a person could say or do that could shake her faith in God.
Does God answer prayers. Ask Mary.

Answer 6

I was programmed as an Atheist, a very closed relation with nature made me a pantheist, the death of a friend an hedonist, my girlfriend didn't want sex before marriage, I became christian, was unhappy with the dogma of the church became Muslim, read the Bagdavad Gita and started to wonder seriously, became Sufi, studied psychology and comparative religion while practicing hermetism...
Today, I know enough about the nature of beliefs to consciously choosing to be my own programmer. Not from the East nor from the West. Thinking by oneself ! Freedom of Will. Amen.

Answer 7

I was once a rabid atheist, like the ones you find roaming these boards. One day, I was enlightened and fascinated with the truthfullness of the gospel. Now, when people say "so easy, an atheist can do it" I just laugh!

Answer 8

Are you saying that you were forced to believe a certain way before? If you feel that is true then how do you know you haven't been brainwashed again?

Answer 9

Someone had to have had a VERY impressionalbe mind to go from Atheist to christian. Although I have never heard of atheist-to-christian stories, I have heard hundreds of the opposite.

I'm slowly leaning from Satanic to Atheist.

Answer 10

I too am a Christian turned atheist. I don't personally know of any the other way around but I've seen a few around who say it's happened to them.