Ayaan Hirsi Ali Converted to Christianity

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https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/ayaan-hirsi-ali-converted-to-christianity/

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a longtime critic of Islam and vocal atheist, has announced that she is now a Christian for both spiritual and civilizational reasons.

"I still have a great deal to learn about Christianity," she wrote in an essay published this week. "I discover a little more at church each Sunday. But I have recognized, in my own long journey through a wilderness of fear and self-doubt, that there is a better way to manage the challenges of existence than either Islam or unbelief had to offer.


Why I am now a Christian
Atheism can't equip us for civilisational war

https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian/

Her reasoning? Christianity’s legacy.


“That legacy consists of an elaborate set of ideas and institutions designed to safeguard human life, freedom and dignity — from the nation state and the rule of law to the institutions of science, health and learning. As Tom Holland has shown in his marvellous book Dominion, all sorts of apparently secular freedoms — of the market, of conscience and of the press — find their roots in Christianity.

And so I have come to realise that Russell and my atheist friends failed to see the wood for the trees. The wood is the civilisation built on the Judeo-Christian tradition; it is the story of the West, warts and all. Russell’s critique of those contradictions in Christian doctrine is serious, but it is also too narrow in scope.”

Amen sister friend.

[Anonymous]

Nobody should've to stick to their ancestral religion if they don't want to. She made a career off of bashing Islam, hopefully she'll treat her new religion better and finds peace. Imho religions aren't much more than ways to follow some moral code and using those beliefs to calm your soul.

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I bought Tom Holland's book Dominion recently, and now I have an incentive to read it. As I understand it, from the history podcast Holland does with fellow historian Dominic Sandbrook, Tom is bordering on agnostic, or maybe he is somewhat religious, but anyway he attends church.

[Anonymous]

I’m concerned anyone would convert religions based on ‘civilizational war’

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Anonymous wrote:I’m concerned anyone would convert religions based on ‘civilizational war’

+1 If she's found something that adds value to her life, I'm thrilled for her. But this explanation feels very bizarre and kind of unrelated to the concept of faith - Christianity is responsible for the nation state? That sounds very strange as both a historical conclusion to draw and a reason to choose a religion.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m concerned anyone would convert religions based on ‘civilizational war’

+1 If she's found something that adds value to her life, I'm thrilled for her. But this explanation feels very bizarre and kind of unrelated to the concept of faith - Christianity is responsible for the nation state? That sounds very strange as both a historical conclusion to draw and a reason to choose a religion.

Did you read the article she wrote?

[Anonymous]

Muslim, Atheist, or Christian... Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a psycho mental case and complete opportunist.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m concerned anyone would convert religions based on ‘civilizational war’

As a Christian I'm hopeful that God will work in her heart through the church she attends, reading the Bible, and meeting other Christians (how he works in all our hearts), but I'm inherently suspicious of these kind of political conversions. I've seen them on the left and the right, and I don't often see them develop in the way that I'd hope a Christian would. Her statement is long on politics and short on any kind of encounter with the Christ, which isn't encouraging.

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Did her husband convert too?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m concerned anyone would convert religions based on ‘civilizational war’

As a Christian I'm hopeful that God will work in her heart through the church she attends, reading the Bible, and meeting other Christians (how he works in all our hearts), but I'm inherently suspicious of these kind of political conversions. I've seen them on the left and the right, and I don't often see them develop in the way that I'd hope a Christian would. Her statement is long on politics and short on any kind of encounter with the Christ, which isn't encouraging.

What is a political religious conversion?

You are suspicious of her? Suspicious about what?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m concerned anyone would convert religions based on ‘civilizational war’

As a Christian I'm hopeful that God will work in her heart through the church she attends, reading the Bible, and meeting other Christians (how he works in all our hearts), but I'm inherently suspicious of these kind of political conversions. I've seen them on the left and the right, and I don't often see them develop in the way that I'd hope a Christian would. Her statement is long on politics and short on any kind of encounter with the Christ, which isn't encouraging.

What is a political religious conversion?

You are suspicious of her? Suspicious about what?

DP but read the statement. She's very explicit that this is a political conversion - to defend Western civilization and provide a unifying mindset for the West in the global war against "three different but related forces: the resurgence of great-power authoritarianism and expansionism in the forms of the Chinese Communist Party and Vladimir Putin’s Russia; the rise of global Islamism, which threatens to mobilise a vast population against the West; and the viral spread of woke ideology, which is eating into the moral fibre of the next generation." PPP is not being unfair to call this a political conversion; Ali makes it explicit that the conversion is an outgrowth of, and in service to, her political point of view.

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Anonymous wrote:Muslim, Atheist, or Christian... Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a psycho mental case and complete opportunist.

I’ve found her writing to be surprisingly thoughtful but I’ve watched her tilt further and further to the political right and it does seem opportunistic.

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Anonymous wrote:Did her husband convert too?

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Don’t know, but he’s extremely supportive of his wife.

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Anonymous wrote:Did her husband convert too?

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Don’t know, but he’s extremely supportive of his wife.

3/4 from her husband’s twitter thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Muslim, Atheist, or Christian... Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a psycho mental case and complete opportunist.

I’ve found her writing to be surprisingly thoughtful but I’ve watched her tilt further and further to the political right and it does seem opportunistic.

Oh, so the whole spiel about trying out different religions and seeing what makes sense to you isn’t really what we should do? Now it’s politically motivated and opportunistic?