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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m concerned anyone would convert religions based on ‘civilizational war’[/quote]

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. [/quote]

What is a political religious conversion?

You are suspicious of her? Suspicious about what?

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A politically motivated religious conversion. Converting to a religion because you think it matches and supports your politics, rather than because you believe that the claims made by the religion are true. I'm suspicious that she's not actually found faith in Christianity but rather that she's decided Christianity is what matches her politics.

What she presents in the article is essentially that she thinks Christianity is a good story that will help Western Civilization survive ("The lesson I learned from my years with the Muslim Brotherhood was the power of a unifying story, embedded in the foundational texts of Islam, to attract, engage and mobilise the Muslim masses. Unless we offer something as meaningful, I fear the erosion of our civilisation will continue.").

Does that mean she thinks the story is *true*? That's the heart of Christianity: believing that God became man in the person of Jesus, who died and was raised, and who promises to share that risen life with us. Right now, I think she talks like someone coopting my faith for political ends that are not what God wants. As Stanley Haurwas says "Jesus is Lord, everything else is bullshit." I want to see her belief in Jesus being Lord, not her belief that a good story can win a civilizational war. That's not what Christianity is for. [/quote]

“Yet I would not be truthful if I attributed my embrace of Christianity solely to the realisation that atheism is too weak and divisive a doctrine to fortify us against our menacing foes. I have also turned to Christianity because I ultimately found life without any spiritual solace unendurable — indeed very nearly self-destructive. Atheism failed to answer a simple question: what is the meaning and purpose of life?“

So what about this part?

There are no political religious conversions. That’s something you made up. That’s really (for the lack of a better term) dumb. [/quote]

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