I am sure there are atheists that convert to Christianity all the time. What about the apostle Paul?
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Paul wasn't an atheist...but whatever, if you want to bring up just one example of an "atheist" becoming religious, here's an example of someone religious becoming an atheist: Me.
I was raised anglican, turned atheist a long time ago. Fuck, now we're equal!
Either Merqutio is completely ignorant of the Bible (the story of Paul's conversion is one of the most frequently taught stories of the Bible, probably coming after the Jesus' life, the Creation story, and Noah), or he's decided that "atheist" and "not a Christian" are interchangeable.
Like Moondog, I was raised Catholic but am now atheist.
Now I wouldn't piss on a Church if it was on fire (unless there were people or animals inside).
Well, seeing as we all were born atheists, and people do become christians on a regular basis, I guess the statement is technically correct.
However, if one argues that conversion only means between one religion and another, then no, no atheist has ever converted to christianity, as atheism isn't a religion.
“I am sure there are atheists that convert to Christianity all the time.”
Does that prove anything? I saw an atheist convert to Islam one off-crew. Saw three Christains convert to Wicca (trying to get laid by a witch) during my C school. Know three people who converted to their spouse’s religion for the sake of the wedding.
Knew an atheist who pretended to be Catholic for the sake of his mother.
Also knew a Catholic who considered himself a magic-spell-casting Wizard.
I didn’t convert so much as my religion died like a plant. In my search for the God i believed in, i kept finding religions to be just propped up fakes. One day i realized my belief had finally faded from my inability to water it.
“What about the apostle Paul?”
As an example, that’s a TEENSY bit better than ‘that guy John Denver played in ‘Oh, God!’
Except it’s not. Paul was a heresologist, stamping out Jews who believed the Messiah had come, until the Messiah told him, ‘Knock that off.’ And he didn’t really CONVERT to Christainity, so much as he sat down and made it.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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