Question by Paris: Has a healthy atheist adult ever become religious?
I was just wondering if anyone here or that you know who was an atheist has ever become religious? You hear about people leaving their religion all the time, but I’ve never heard of a healthy adult (mental illness, drug addiction etc doesn’t really count) suddenly finding god.
Of course there is the possibility of a child that was raised in an atheist home that becomes religious when he/she moves out, but that isn’t the kind of person I’m talking about. I’m talking about a healthy adult over 27 years of age suddenly finding God. If so, how exactly did it happen and could it happen to other atheists too?
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Answer by The Canadian Atheist
I don’t believe that has ever happened.
there are many that lie about it happening, but that’s not the same…
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I sure hope not.
I don’t know any, but i know when you get older, the more religious you get.
I think it is because the youth don’t ponder on death that much.
OLD people think about death of old age, and want some comfort.
But that’s just a view….
There was this section in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley that went over this. Masterpiece that book is.
Well I know of 2 people who were Atheists who became Christians one of them wound up going to Bible Collage and became a minister
Of course. It’s happened lots of times. Google “former atheist blog” and you’ll find plenty.
Not really, I’m got all my ducks in a row and won’t consider religion….ever
Just that crazy Lee Stroebel guy…oh wait, you said healthy.
I was 34, I did not find *religion*, I don’t do *religion*…. I was called by God… I was healthy, educated and very articulate, at least for a *country* girl…. sooooo, yes , it happens all the time… go in peace…. God bless
CS Lewis. He abandoned his family’s Irish Catholic church-going practices at age 15 because he found it to be a “chore,” and became a full-blown atheist. It wasn’t until he was 31 years old, after becoming an extremely well-educated man who won the highest honors in three areas of study at Oxford University, and being a professor of literature for 6 years, that he quite suddenly underwent a conversion to full-blown Christianity and went on to become one of the greatest Christian apologists of the 20th century.