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From Atheism To Christianity by staggerman(m): 12:12pm On Mar 07, 2013
Todd White
Todd White was a drug addict and atheist for 22 years when in 2004 He was radically set free! Redemption and righteousness are the foundation and the keys to the new creation reality that we are to live in and from. God has simply opened Todd's eyes to this truth and that Holy Spirit wants to flow through every believer everywhere we go, at work, school, grocery stores, malls, gas stations, everywhere.

His true joy is being able to reproduce in people the simplicity of this reality, in a 24/7 kingdom lifestyle! This is for every believer! No one is excluded!

Todd's testimony has been re-enacted on the Sid Roth show. He has appeared on the 700 club and also has been featured on the XP media with Patricia King. His heart is activating people into the simplicity of who they really are and destroying lies that hold people back from being who God created them to be.
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by lecturerdabo(m): 12:19pm On Mar 07, 2013
I thank God for him!
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by HumbledbYGrace(f): 12:23pm On Mar 07, 2013
Very nice, its not everyday atheists become believers
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by ooman(m): 12:24pm On Mar 07, 2013
You really do not understand Atheism.

You dont become an atheist by choice, it is what you naturally, normally are.
Todd needed help, he never had his life from the beginning, he was a drug addict as you noted, he lost consciousness of his person.
That is not who atheists are, we are people with full awareness of the world around us, we are not addicts, we are people who, no matter what is happening to us or around us, remain strong in all situations and strife to find solution to all things.

Todd does not qualify as a strong human. He is not fit for survival, therefore, he gave his life to silliness, he became a christian. That is the property of weak people - Religion.

The religious are the weak, the weak are the religions.

The strong are the atheists, the atheists are the strong.

Its about survival of the fittest, so if you are not fit, you look onto a God for answers, if you are fit, you become/remain an atheist and look into yourself and the world around you for answers. So Todd does not matter to the atheist community. He is weak and such is not found among those who identify as ATHEISTS.

I REMAIN A PROUD ATHEIST

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Re: From Atheism To Christianity by staggerman(m): 12:38pm On Mar 07, 2013
Converted to Anglicanism or Episcopalianism

Joy Davidman – Poet and wife of C. S. Lewis.

Tamsin Greig - British actress raised as an atheist then converted at 30.

Nicky Gumbel – Anglican priest known for the Alpha course, from atheism.

Peter Hitchens – Journalist who went from Trotskyism to Traditionalist conservatism, and estranged brother of late outspoken anti-theist and Vanity Fair writer Christopher Hitchens.

C. E. M. Joad – English philosopher whose arguing against Christianity, from an agnostic perspective, earned him criticism from T. S. Eliot. He turned toward religion later, writing The Recovery of Belief a year before he died and returning to Christianity.

C. S. Lewis - Oxford professor and writer; well known for The Chronicles of Narnia series, and for his apologetic Mere Christianity.

Alister McGrath - Biochemist and Christian theologian. Founder of 'Scientific theology' and critic of Richard Dawkins in his book Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life

Enoch Powell – Conservative Party (UK) member who converted to Anglicanism.

Michael Reiss - a British bioethicist, educator, journalist, and Anglican priest. Agnostic/Secular upbringing.

Dame Cicely Saunders - Templeton Prize and Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize winning nurse known for palliative care. She converted to Christianity as a young woman.

Fay Weldon - British novelist and feminist.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Christianity_from_nontheism
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by ooman(m): 12:39pm On Mar 07, 2013
Christ Jesus!! can this stop?
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by staggerman(m): 12:41pm On Mar 07, 2013
Converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Emir Kusturica - Film-maker, actor, and musician. Although of Muslim ancestry, his father was atheist.[56] He took the name "Nemanja" on conversion in 2005.

Seraphim Rose - Hieromonk and religious writer. In early adulthood he considered non-theist ideas of God and the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche that God is dead. He became Russian Orthodox in 1962.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Nobel Prize-winning dissident author who converted to Russian Orthodoxy
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by staggerman(m): 12:46pm On Mar 07, 2013
Converted to Protestantism

Steve Beren - former member of the Socialist Workers Party (United States) who became a Christian conservative politician.

Francis Collins - physician-geneticist, noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes, and the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (former atheist)

Bo Giertz - Swedish Confessional Lutheran Bishop, theologian, and writer.

Keir Hardie – Raised atheist and became a Christian Socialist.

Paul Jones – Musician, of Manfred Mann. Previously atheist and in 1967 he argued with Cliff Richard about religion on a TV show.

Kang Kek Iew (also known as Comrade Duch) - Cambodian director of Phnom Penh's infamous Tuol Sleng detention center

William J. Murray - author and son of atheist activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Marvin Olasky - former Marxist turned Christian conservative, he edits the Christian World magazine.

George R. Price - Geneticist who became an Evangelical Christian and wrote about the New Testament. Later he moderated his evangelistic tendencies and switched from religious writing to working with the homeless.

Lacey Sturm - Vocalist and lyricist for Alternative metal band Flyleaf.

Akiane Kramarik (and family) - American poet and child prodigy raised as an atheist and converted to Christianity
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by lecturerdabo(m): 12:52pm On Mar 07, 2013
Staggerman, Thanks and God bless you real good.
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by staggerman(m): 1:00pm On Mar 07, 2013
Converts to the Quaker faith

Whittaker Chambers – Former Communist turned conservative writer.

Gerald Priestland – News correspondent who discusses having once been the "school atheist" in Something Understood: An Autobiography. He became a Quaker after an emotional breakdown.
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by staggerman(m): 1:02pm On Mar 07, 2013
Anders Borg - Sweden's Minister for Finance.

Julie Burchill – British journalist and feminist.

Bruce Cockburn - Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer/songwriter. (former agnostic)

Larry Darby – Former Holocaust denier and former member of the American Atheists.

Nina Karin Monsen - a Norwegian moral philosopher and author who grew up in a humanist family, but later convert to Christianity through philosophic thinking.

Rosalind Picard – Director of the Affective computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab. She was raised atheist, but converted to Christianity in her teens.

Allan Sandage - a prolific Astronomer converted to Christianity later in his life stating that "I could not live a life full of cynicism. I chose to believe, and a peace of mind came over me."

A. N. Wilson – Biographer and novelist who entered the theological St Stephen's House, Oxford before proclaiming himself an atheist and writing against religion. He announced his return to Christianity in 2009.
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by staggerman(m): 1:07pm On Mar 07, 2013
Converted to Catholicism

Mortimer J. Adler – American philosopher, educator, and popular author. He converted to Catholicism, from agnosticism, after decades of interest in Thomism.

G. E. M. Anscombe - analytic philosopher, Thomist, literary executor for Ludwig Wittgenstein, and author of Modern Moral Philosophy. She converted to Catholicism as a result of her extensive reading.

Paul Bourget – French author who became agnostic and positivist at 15, but returned to Catholicism at 35.

Avery Dulles – A Jesuit priest, theologian, and cardinal in the Catholic Church. He was raised Presbyterian, but was an agnostic before his conversion to Catholic Christianity.

Dawn Eden – Rock journalist of Jewish ethnicity who went from an agnostic to a Catholic writer, who was particularly concerned with the moral values of chastity.

André Frossard - French journalist and essayist.

Maggie Gallagher – Conservative activist and a founder of the National Organization for Marriage.

Eugene D. Genovese – Historian who went from Stalinist to Catholicism.

Anna Haycraft - Raised in Auguste Comte's atheistic "church of humanity", but became a conservative Catholic in adulthood.

Mary Karr - Author of The Liars' Club and a Guggenheim Fellow. She once described herself as an "undiluted agnostic", but converted to a self-acknowledged "Cafeteria Catholicism" that embraces Pro-Choice views amongst others.

Ignace Lepp - French psychiatrist whose parents were freethinkers and who joined the Communist party at age fifteen. He broke with the party in 1937 and eventually became a Catholic priest.

Leah Libresco - Atheist blogger, recently turned Catholic.

Arnold Lunn – A skier, mountaineer, and writer. As an agnostic he wrote Roman Converts, which took a critical view of Catholicism and the converts to it. He later converted to Catholicism due to debating with converts, and became an apologist for the faith, although he retained a few criticisms of the faith.

Gabriel Marcel – A leading Christian existentialist. His upbringing was agnostic.

Claude McKay – Bisexual Jamaican poet who went from Communist-leaning atheist to an active Catholic Christian after a stroke.

Vittorio Messori – An Italian journalist and writer called the "most translated Catholic writer in the world" by Sandro Magister. Before his conversion in 1964 he had a "perspective as a secularist and agnostic."

Malcolm Muggeridge – British journalist and author who went from agnosticism to the Catholic Church.

Bernard Nathanson - Medical doctor who was a founding member of NARAL, later becoming a Pro-Life proponent.

Giovanni Papini – He went from pragmatic atheism to Catholicism, also a Fascist.

Joseph Pearce – An anti-Catholic and agnostic British National Front member who became a devoted Catholic writer with a series on EWTN.

Charles Péguy - French poet, essayist, and editor. He went from agnostic humanist to a pro-Republic Catholic.

Sally Read - Eric Gregory Award winning poet who converted to Catholicism.

E. F. Schumacher – Economic thinker known for Small Is Beautiful, his A Guide for the Perplexed criticizes what he termed "materialistic scientism." He went from atheism to Buddhism to Catholicism.

Peter Steele - Lead singer of Type O Negative.

Edith Stein - Phenomenologist philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun; declared a saint by John Paul II.

John Lawson Stoddard – Divinity student who became an agnostic and "Scientific humanist." Later he converted to Catholicism. His son Lothrop Stoddard remained agnostic and would be significant to Scientific racism.

Allen Tate - American poet, essayist and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

Sigrid Undset - Norwegian Nobel laureate who converted to Catholicism from agnosticism.

Evelyn Waugh – British novelist who converted to Catholicism from agnosticism.

John C. Wright - Science fiction author who went from atheist to Christian, specifically Catholic. Chapter 1 of the book "Atheist to Catholic: 11 Stories of Conversion", edited by Rebecca Vitz Cherico, is by him.
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by staggerman(m): 1:07pm On Mar 07, 2013
lecturerdabo: Staggerman, Thanks and God bless you real good.
Thanks
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by staggerman(m): 1:08pm On Mar 07, 2013
ooman: Christ Jesus!! can this stop?

The LORD is not willing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by ooman(m): 1:13pm On Mar 07, 2013
staggerman:

The LORD is not willing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Are you the Lord? if not, let the lord tell me that himself!
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by staggerman(m): 1:18pm On Mar 07, 2013
ooman:

Are you the Lord? if not, let the lord tell me that himself!

He has been telling you, but you have not been listening. You have shut your ears to His voice, and your eyes have you closed from His vision.
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by ooman(m): 1:34pm On Mar 07, 2013
staggerman:

He has been telling you, but you have not been listening. You have shut your ears to His voice, and your eyes have you closed from His vision.

Then he has been whispering, let him shout on top of his voice, perhaps then, i will here!

His visions are not clear enough, let him make them crystal clear!
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by onyfrank: 2:39pm On Mar 07, 2013
[quote author=ooman.
You dont become an atheist by choice, it is what you naturally ,Its about survival of the fittest, so if you are not fit, you look onto a God for answers, if you are fit, you become/remain an atheist and look into yourself and the world around you for answers.
I REMAIN A PROUD ATHEIST[/quote]
hmmm, so intresting. If what i read above is what really being atheist is, then u ppl ar on d right track. Its just dat u ar nt practising religion bt unconsciously u guys knws dat there is something higher, which only ur sixth sense knows when u look in2 urself. Wow! Wen U ar doing this u ar looking and being aware of Christ in u. Keep it up.
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by ooman(m): 2:44pm On Mar 07, 2013
onyfrank: hmmm, so intresting. If what i read above is what really being atheist is, then u ppl ar on d right track. Its just dat u ar nt practising religion bt unconsciously u guys knws dat there is something higher, which only ur sixth sense knows when u look in2 urself. Wow! Wen U ar doing this u ar looking and being aware of Christ in u. Keep it up.

dont deceive yourself, there is no God no where
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by onyfrank: 2:48pm On Mar 07, 2013
@all atheist. Just that u only need to get rid of Ego.
E.G.O=Excluding God's Omnipresence
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by ooman(m): 2:53pm On Mar 07, 2013
onyfrank: @all atheist. Just that u only need to get rid of Ego.
E.G.O=Excluding God's Omnipresence

JUST WHAT WE NEED TO KEEP
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by onyfrank: 3:03pm On Mar 07, 2013
ooman:

dont deceive yourself, there is no God no where
pls don't understand God as sum1 sumwia watching ooman, no no. God is evrytn, evrywia, in any minutest point. He is aware of Himself as u, and evry oda things, visible and invisible to u.
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by ooman(m): 3:22pm On Mar 07, 2013
onyfrank:
pls don't understand God as sum1 sumwia watching ooman, no no. God is evrytn, evrywia, in any minutest point. He is aware of Himself as u, and evry oda things, visible and invisible to u.

SO AM GOD?
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by tpia5: 3:32pm On Mar 07, 2013
ooman: Christ Jesus!! can this stop?

why so agitated?


i dont see anyone disturbing you and your fellows on your myriads of senseless threads, yet this one miniscule topic among the thousands you've opened in this section, is making you queasy.


what do you think is the reason. undecided
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by Nobody: 3:35pm On Mar 07, 2013
And those are just a few names we can find. Imagine what could be happening among the billions of ordinary people whose exploits don't generally make the front page. That little stone hewn out of a mountain without hands is truly turning into that great mountain that filled the earth. What a joy! He shall indeed see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. Did not He also say that He will build His Church upon the Rock of His perfect acceptance unto God, being Christ, Messiah, Anointed One, God's Chosen King, and the very gates of Hell shall not prevail against it?

The Gospel is unstoppable. More than two thousand years of hell's efforts have proven time and again that 'this thing' has eternity in its heart. Halleluya!
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by Nobody: 3:35pm On Mar 07, 2013
tpia@:


why so agitated?


i dont see anyone disturbing you and your fellows on your myriads of senseless threads, yet this one miniscule topic among the thousands you've opened in this section, is making you queasy.


what do you think is the reason. undecided

What's up bebe? kiss kiss kiss
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by ooman(m): 3:45pm On Mar 07, 2013
Ihedinobi: And those are just a few names we can find. Imagine what could be happening among the billions of ordinary people whose exploits don't generally make the front page. That little stone hewn out of a mountain without hands is truly turning into that great mountain that filled the earth. What a joy! He shall indeed see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. Did not He also say that He will build His Church upon the Rock of His perfect acceptance unto God, being Christ, Messiah, Anointed One, God's Chosen King, and the very gates of Hell shall not prevail against it?

The Gospel is unstoppable. More than two thousand years of hell's efforts have proven time and again that 'this thing' has eternity in its heart. Halleluya!

i laugh at your ignorance. you will be so surprised when religion finally crash out of Earth, all your Gods with it.
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by ooman(m): 3:46pm On Mar 07, 2013
Ihedinobi: And those are just a few names we can find. Imagine what could be happening among the billions of ordinary people whose exploits don't generally make the front page. That little stone hewn out of a mountain without hands is truly turning into that great mountain that filled the earth. What a joy! He shall indeed see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. Did not He also say that He will build His Church upon the Rock of His perfect acceptance unto God, being Christ, Messiah, Anointed One, God's Chosen King, and the very gates of Hell shall not prevail against it?

The Gospel is unstoppable. More than two thousand years of hell's efforts have proven time and again that 'this thing' has eternity in its heart. Halleluya!

Re: From Atheism To Christianity by ooman(m): 3:54pm On Mar 07, 2013
tpia@:


why so agitated?


i dont see anyone disturbing you and your fellows on your myriads of senseless threads, yet this one miniscule topic among the thousands you've opened in this section, is making you queasy.


what do you think is the reason. undecided

maybe its because am allergic to bullshit-religion
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by Nobody: 4:00pm On Mar 07, 2013
ooman:

i laugh at your ignorance. you will be so surprised when religion finally crash out of Earth, all your Gods with it.

Oh, don't worry about me! Such drivel as your comment has been repeated so often over the past two thousand years that even the most cowardly Christian wouldn't lose any sleep over it. I'll believe it, if at all, when I see it, mm. smiley
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by ooman(m): 4:17pm On Mar 07, 2013
Ihedinobi:

Oh, don't worry about me! Such drivel as your comment has been repeated so often over the past two thousand years that even the most cowardly Christian wouldn't lose any sleep over it. I'll believe it, if at all, when I see it, mm. smiley

YOU WILL SEE IT, YOU CAN BE CERTAIN OF THAT
Re: From Atheism To Christianity by onyfrank: 4:40pm On Mar 07, 2013
ooman:

SO AM GOD?
i so much like this question. Jst tink abt it. And then ask urself 'who am i?' then løok inside you like u normally do when searchn 4 a solution. U wl b glad with d answer. Ooman is enlightment is nt far 4rm u. Its well!

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