Sentence examples for conversion to atheism from inspiring English sources
Reports of Hawking's dramatic conversion to atheism are somewhat exaggerated.
As Susan Budd put it in her excellent study "Varieties of Unbelief: Atheists and Agnostics in English Society, 1850-1960," "the conversion to atheism" in those years "usually followed two distinct phases: the conversion from Christianity to unbelief or uncertainty... and the move from unbelief to positive commitment to secularism". Arguably, a similar two-step exists today.
The result of such a "break," he continues, may be descent into permanent psychosis, or conversion to religion or to atheism, or the beginning of successful psychoanalytic treatment, or the construction of a new philosophical system, or just a hiccup in the daily grind.
His ensuing period of deep depression, along with a dark, solitary, drinking binge, mirror the kind of gestation which the dead undergo before they "turn". But when Herschel emerges, his epiphany is portrayed almost as a "conversion," if not to atheism, at least away from dogmatic religious separatism.
Von Trier wrote it as a way of dealing with a deep depression and it's clearly based on the mental turmoil of being brought up by parents committed to communism, naturism and atheism and his recent conversion to Catholicism.
Like religion at its worst, contemporary atheism feeds the fantasy that human life can be remade by a conversion experience – in this case, conversion to unbelief.
The religious conversion is too often a conversion to intolerance.
For example, she offers an impressively incisive account of his conversion from atheism to Christianity in 1958 ("It was something no one could have anticipated, least of all himself. 'Conversion is a form of intelligence, of understanding,' he said; it's also a process…and as such would absorb him for the rest of his days").
The Cambridge Companion to Atheism.
Members' paths to atheism have varied.
