Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who spent decades as a skeptic who was uncertain of where he stood on God and faith, is now an outspoken Christian. "It is finally time for me to confess and explain, fully and publicly, that I am a Christian," he wrote in a Feb. 5 blog post, noting it was time for him to unveil his testimony. And it's a journey that is turning many heads considering that the philosopher and web developer has had such a profound cultural impact.
Sanger told CBN News the skepticism he held for most of his life went back to his childhood and his unsure perspective on all religions. Despite that reticence, he did dabble in attempts to communicate with a Higher Power. "I wasn't necessarily praying to God per se, but I had a sort of internal dialogue," he said. "And sometimes I even wrote it out .... with some supremely wise being, and sometimes I would even call that being God, not that I believed that that was God, but in order to just sort of clarify my thought."
Today, though, he's now definitively directing his thoughts to God, embracing the entirety of the Christian story. The reaction has been swift, which he didn't expect. "I just assumed ... to be honest, a lot of people have more or less forgotten about me," Sanger said. "I'm not in the news that much anymore." But people have responded in droves, with Sanger calling the reaction "overwhelmingly positive." Surprisingly, he said high-profile atheists have been silent on his conversion — a long process that he said came about after he extensively explored the evidence.
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