List of former Christians
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This is a list of people who left Christianity for another religion or a non-religious ideology.
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[edit] Ex-Christians who had been Roman Catholics
This is a list of people who left Roman Catholicism for another religion or a non-religious ideology
[edit] Buddhism
- Roberto Baggio - Retired Italian footballer.
- Richard Gere - Hollywood actor. [1]
[edit] Islam
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer. [2]
- Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley- was an Irish peer.[3]
- Yusuf Islam- Musician, songwriter, philanthropist. [4]
- John Walker Lindh- American who was captured during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan while fighting there for the Taliban.
[edit] Judaism
- Bishop Bodo, confessor to Louis the Pious also deacon[5]
- Anne Meara (1929 - ) American comedian and actress, partner and wife of Jerry Stiller[6]
- Mary Doria Russell American author whose novel The Sparrow involves Jesuits.[7][8]
[edit] Raëlism
- Brigitte Boisselier, mostly known for her association with Clonaid.[9]
[edit] Scientology
- Tom Cruise - American actor [10] [11]
[edit] Ex-Christians who had been Eastern Christians
This section is for those who left varying forms of Eastern Christianity in favor of a non-Christian religion or ideology.
[edit] Islam
- Hamza Yusuf- American convert. [12]
[edit] Judaism
- Aleksei (Russian convert to Judaism) - Russian archpriest who converted.[13]
[edit] Communists and non-Christian Socialists
[edit] Ex-Christians who had been Protestants
[edit] Paganism
[edit] Islam
- Art Blakey- American jazz drummer. [14]
- John Coltrane- Prominent jazz saxophonist and composer. [15]
- Malcolm X- Activist for African-American people. [16]
- Muhammad Ali- Former Boxer.[17]
[edit] Judaism
- Shlomo Ben Avraham "Ole" Brunell, former Lutheran minister from Finland and Australia. Along with him, his wife Ruth (formerly Runa), two adult daughters, two teenage daughters, and a former son-in-law also converted.[18]
- Julius Lester, Author and musician who was the son of a minister.[19]
- Johann Peter Spaeth, German theologian[20] "Johann Peter Spaeth (about 1642-1701), author of an attack on Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-politicus, finally became a Jewish convert, called himself "Moses Germanus," and was even circumcised a few years before his death in 1697"
- Obadiah the Proselyte (né Johannes), priest and composer [21].
[edit] Ex-Christians who had been Anglicans
[edit] Islam
- St. John Philby- Explorer, writer. [22]
- Suhaib Webb- American Islamic activist. [23]
[edit] See also
- List of converts to Christianity
- List of people who converted to Catholicism
- List of former atheists
- List of former Protestants
- List of former Roman Catholics
- List of former Latter-day Saints
- List of former Muslims
[edit] References
- ^ The religion of actor Orlando Bloom
- ^ IN SHORT - New York Times
- ^ Lord Headley: British press on his conversion to Islam
- ^ Yusuf Islam | Cat Stevens
- ^ Jewish Encyclopedia
- ^ O'Toole, Lesley. "Ben Stiller : 'Doing comedy is scary'", The Independent, 2006-12-22. Retrieved on 2006-12-22.
- ^ Bookbrowse
- ^ Interview from Amazon: States her parents weren't very religious, but that "I did spend 4 years in a Catholic school, from ages 9 to 13. Those years were quite influential intellectually, although I left the Church at the age of 15.]
- ^ SMH: According to published reports, she was raised as Catholic on a farm in the Champagne region east of Paris.
- ^ [1] "RD: You were Catholic originally. Cruise: Well, we went from Episcopalian, to atheist, to Catholic..."
- ^ [2] "In 1990 Cruise renounced his devout Catholic beliefs and embraced The Church Of Scientology claiming that Scientology teachings had cured him of the dyslexia that had plagued him all of his life."
- ^ NPR: Convert Plays Leadership Role in Muslim Community
- ^ Jewish Encyclopedia
- ^ ArtBlakey.com
- ^ The religion of John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist
- ^ The religion of Malcolm X, black activist
- ^ Muhammad Ali has embraced Sufi Islam and is on a new spiritual quest - Beliefnet.com
- ^ Jerusalem Post
- ^ j. - Julius Lester: There's `no magic formula' for blacks and Jews (print view)
- ^ Commentary Magazine
- ^ The University of Chicago Magazine: August 2004
- ^ H. Saint John Philby - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- ^ http://www.sunnipath.com/about/shaykhsuhaib.aspx
