Atheists who converted to Hinduism •
John Dobson - became a believer in
Vedanta – astronomer and telescope designer •
Sita Ram Goel -
Indian commentator,
writer and
Hindu activist
Atheists who became an unspecified/uncertain form of theism or deism •
Eben Alexander -
neurosurgeon,
author, teaching physician. Author of ''Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife'' •
Plutarco Elías Calles former president of Mexico who was an atheist but became a
spiritist later in life •
Gabrielle Carey - Australian co-author of
Puberty Blues who was raised atheist but converted to Catholicism and then explored other theologies. •
Antony Flew - philosopher and respected atheist thinker 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. •
Jordan Peterson - Canadian
clinical psychologist, former atheist and former
materialist, ambiguous beliefs •
William Luther Pierce - American
white supremacist and
political activist who created
Cosmotheism •
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. •
Allan Sandage - Astronomer known as the Father of Observational Cosmology discovered the universe was not cyclical and therefore the Big Bang was a one-time event which persuaded him that God existed. He later became 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. •
Mark Zuckerberg -
Facebook founder and philanthropist == Former agnostics ==