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Anonymous No.24601690 >>24601702 >>24602384 >>24602732 >>24602807
Give me some books where an atheist/agnostic character discovers religion, preferably where the author themselves has made the same journey.
The more poignant/convincing the conversion, the better. Any genre.
Anonymous No.24601702
>>24601690 (OP)
>Give me some books where an atheist/agnostic character discovers religion, preferably where the author themselves has made the same journey.
>The more poignant/convincing the conversion, the better. Any genre.
Crime & Punishment, or its Urban Romance Equivalent.
Anonymous No.24602009 >>24602011
Wise Blood, by O'Connor.
Anonymous No.24602011 >>24602123
>>24602009
What? No. Haze doesnt find Christ.
Anonymous No.24602123
>>24602011
Yes he does, that's why he blinded himself.
Anonymous No.24602384
>>24601690 (OP)
Hate to encourage christfaggotry, but someone has to mention Huysmans's trilogy that begins with LĂ -bas.

Apuleius's Golden Ass, Euripides's Bacchae.
Anonymous No.24602390 >>24602688
>Give me some books where an atheist/agnostic character discovers religion, preferably where the author themselves has made the same journey.
>The more poignant/convincing the conversion, the better. Any genre.
Anonymous No.24602688
>>24602390
Literally none of those things in the image apply to the post. The two neurons in your brain fired when they heard "religion" and you decided to go find the heckin awesome basedjak you saw about this.
"People" like you deserve to be slopfed bugpaste like cattle.
Anonymous No.24602732
>>24601690 (OP)
War And Peace
Main character goes from atheist to larping Christian to true believer in god.
Anonymous No.24602807
>>24601690 (OP)
VALIS is relevant- Dick's fictionalized version of having a religious experience as a burnt-out cynic in California, and of the cynical Californians around him being confused and disturbed by his sudden seriousness.