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In print · 2022
Confessions of a French Atheist
by Guillaume Bignon
Most books of this kind open with something broken. This one does not. Bignon was a French atheist, content, with no appetite for religion and no grievance to settle. What moved him was an argument he picked up and could not put down: whether morality means anything, whether science leaves room, whether the Bible bears weight. He followed each one where it led. It did not lead where he was going.
Why Guillaume Bignon became a Christian
In his mid-twenties he was a French atheist working in finance near Paris when he fell for a Christian from New York, and set out to argue her out of her faith. Reading the Bible to do it, he found his conscience woken over a wrong he had buried, and he asked Jesus to forgive him.
What it cost
Not much, and he would say so. Mostly his pride: he said he would have died of shame if his friends or family had seen him in a church.
Christianity Today interview, 2014
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