henry dunant it is well known that henry dunant founder of the red cross was a committed christian the samaritan of europe began with the aim of being more effective in christian charity to heat up the lukewarm believers and to convert those who had not met god as stated in the soci t by henry dunant the soci t quotes him as rejecting the catholic church and the state but embracing the cause of the gospel empathethic with primitive christianity as well as talking about the prophecies of the scriptures in a memory of solferino he calls gracious the self sacrificing christian devotion the two sources that claim that he became an agnostic in his last years do not point to any original source nor have any documented quotation of him on the subject neither oscar riddle nor the nndb give any reference to an original source to support their claims which make their assertion unreliable while riddle's evolutionary thought book claims that dunant became an agnostic christianhistory net from christianity today claims that he was a christian humanitarian to the last inasmuch as there isn't a really reliable source to clarify this matter with documented writings by him i seriously call into question the claim that he became an agnostic while many other sources say exactly the opposite