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More to add... Minussquareofa ( talk) 13:27, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
This article needs to be clear on how it's distinguished from List of atheists. Is it a list of people who originally considered themselves religious but now reject that? As opposed to those who were raised as atheists or who never considered themselves religious? ... discospinster talk 16:19, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Almost half of the converts to atheism are christians, moreover there are many jewish atheists as well, where are they?Is this list a target to a particular religion? Skashifakram ( talk) 06:44, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure about Richard Dawkins. So he was raised Anglican and became an atheist in his mid-teens. It seems like he was an atheist pretty much since he began to think about religion at all. Maybe not, maybe he belongs on this list but it seems like there ought to be a threshold somewhere. If someone notable was baptized Christian as an infant but then identified as an atheist at age 5, do they belong on this page? Hugetim ( talk) 22:44, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering might it make more sense to call this List of former theists or List of former theists and deists? Making it more directly parallel to List of former atheists and agnostics.-- T. Anthony ( talk) 06:20, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of List of converts to Nontheism's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
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List of converts to Nontheism → List of converts to nontheism – No reason to capitalise a common name. I request a move in accordance to the encyclopaedia's guidelines. --Relisted. Andrewa ( talk) 19:49, 31 December 2014 (UTC) Revamers ( talk) 22:20, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Relisting comment: Need to think about this one and suggest others might too. We don't capitalise nontheism, agnosticism, theism etc. but do capitalise Islam, Sikhism, Baha'i etc., that seems the pattern. Two questions... is this convention documented anywhere, and is it suported by normal English usage? Andrewa ( talk) 19:49, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
How can one 'convert' to Nontheism from an already nontheistic position? Buddhism is Nontheism!! DeistCosmos ( talk) 20:49, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
Source does not state Napoleon was a nontheist. It rather refers to him feigning atheism to "faire sa cour" (roughly: woo somebody) at the Tuileries (i.e. the center of power back then). Furthermore, the source clearly mentions "Au fond, il était déiste avec une nuance de respect involontaire et de prédilection avouée". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.219.187.253 ( talk) 15:56, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
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None of the references describe Hitler as nontheistic. Rather he is reported to be disgusted with Christianity and many aspects of Christian religion. Rejecting Christianity and the Catholic church is **not the same** as converting to nontheistm. In particular, the first edit adding this item is CLEARLY politically motivated because of its irrelevant inclusion that "Killed 14 million people." See Change Comparison I would say that edit is politically motivated vandalism. The additional citations provided by Illegitimate Barrister were part of a broader attempt to substantiate uncited claims more broadly in the article, but unfortunately focuses on only one side of the issue. I don't believe Illegitimate Barrister's edit was malicious.
Hitler has long been a "hot potato" between religious apologists and atheists. There is no conclusive evidence on his beliefs because his public and some of his private writings stand in conflict. See this Wikipedia page for more detail.
Muskr ( talk) 16:22, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
I noticed that this list includes people who are religiously unaffiliated, including those who may still believe in a deity while being irreligious. The problem with this is that not all irreligious people are nontheists, so it would be blatantly lying if we put irreligious theists on this list. For example, Ariana Grande left Catholicism, but she now follows the beliefs of Kabalah, but she was put on this list anyway. Sausage Link of High Rule ( talk) 23:01, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
It seems like the answer to that question could add a number of people to this list. Cwallenpoole ( talk) 17:41, 14 June 2023 (UTC)